Not sure what went haywire with the link. I've tried to provide a path by editing my post above, but here is a copy of the text, with some other portions of the proposal that don't deal with the multi-year guarantee issue left out just to save space here. (Language stricken through represents the portions of the current rule proposed to be deleted; language in italics represents the new language of the proposal.)
2011-97
FINANCIAL AID -- ELIGIBILITY FOR INSTITUTIONAL FINANCIAL AID -- FORMER STUDENT-ATHLETES; PERIOD OF INSTITUTIONAL FINANCIAL AID AWARD -- MULTIYEAR GRANTS-IN-AID
Status: Adopted, 60-Day Override Period Process Diagram
Intent: To specify that if a student's athletics ability is considered in any degree in awarding financial aid, such aid shall neither be awarded for a period less than one academic year nor for a period that would exceed the student's five-year period of eligibility; further, to specify that institutional financial aid may be awarded to a former student-athlete for any term during which he or she is enrolled (full time or part time).
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B. Bylaws: Amend 15.02.7, as follows:
15.02.7 Period of Award. The period of award begins when the student-athlete receives any benefits as a part of the student's grant-in-aid on the first day of classes for a particular academic term, or the first day of practice, whichever is earlier, until the conclusion of the period set forth in the financial aid agreement. An athletics grant-in-aid shall not be awarded in excess of one academic year the student-athlete's five-year period of eligibility.
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E. Bylaws: Amend 15.3.3, as follows:
15.3.3 Period of Institutional Financial Aid Award.
15.3.3.1 One-Year Period of Award. If a student's athletics ability is considered in any degree in awarding financial aid, such aid shall neither be awarded for a period in excess of one academic year nor for a period less than one academic year nor for a period that would exceed the student's five-year period of eligibility (see Bylaw Bylaws 14.2 and 15.01.5). One year grants-in-aid shall be awarded (as set forth in the written statement per Bylaw 15.3.2.3) in equal amounts for each term of the academic year.
[15.3.3.1.1 unchanged.]
15.3.3.1.2 Financial Aid Authority Precedent. A staff member may inform a prospective student-athlete that the athletics department will recommend to the financial aid authority that the prospective student-athlete's financial aid be renewed each year for a period of four years and may indicate that the authority always has followed the athletics department's recommendations in the past. However, the prospective student-athlete must be informed that the renewal will not be automatic.
15.3.3.1.3 Injury or Illness Policy. It is not permissible for an institution to assure the prospective student-athlete that it automatically will continue a grant-in-aid past the one-year period if the recipient sustains an injury that prevents him or her from competing in intercollegiate athletics, but an institutional representative may inform the prospective student-athlete of the regular institutional policy related to renewal or continuation of aid past the one-year period for recipients who become ill or injured during their participation.
[15.3.3.1.4 renumbered as 15.3.3.1.2, unchanged.]
15.3.3.2 Regular Academic Year vs. Summer Term. An institution may award financial aid to a student-athlete for an one or more academic year years or, pursuant to the exceptions set forth in Bylaw 15.3.3.1.1, part thereof of one academic year. An institution also may award financial aid for a summer term or summer-orientation period, provided the conditions of Bylaw 15.2.8 have been met. Such financial aid shall be awarded (as set forth in the written statement per Bylaw 15.3.2.3) in equal amounts for each term of the academic year.
15.3.3.2.1 Summer Term as Additional Award. It is necessary to make an additional award for a summer term, inasmuch as a member institution is limited to the award of financial aid for a period not in excess of one academic year.
F. Bylaws: Amend 15.3.4, as follows:
15.3.4 Reduction or Cancellation During Period of Award.
15.3.4.1 Increase Permitted. Institutional financial aid may be increased for any reason at any time prior to the commencement of the period of the award. Once the period of the award begins, institutional aid may only be increased if the institution can demonstrate that such an increase is unrelated in any manner to an athletics reason.
