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> NCAA Begins Certification
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> Mon, 6 Mar 95 14:40:22 PST
> Posted to: clari.sports.misc, clari.news.education.higher
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>         OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) -- Five of the first eight Division I
> schools to complete an evaluation process of their athletic
> departments were certified Monday as operating those departments in
> compliance with NCAA principles.
>         Three others were given conditional certification.
>         The eight were the first to go through the study process that
> eventually will reach all 302 Division I schools in the next five
> years.
>         The process is different from the NCAA's enforcement operations,
> which investigates rules violations.
>         Schools given conditional certification have a year to correct
> problems found in their operations.
>         Institutions that are denied certification could be classified
> as corresponding members of the NCAA and would not be eligible to
> participate in championship events.
>         Given certification were Arizona State, the University of
> Maryland-Baltimore County, St. John's, West Virginia and Wyoming.
>         Certified with conditions were Louisiana State, Northern
> Illinois and St. Mary's, Calif.
>         LSU and Northern Illinois were told to give the Committee on
> Athletics Certification a written plan to improve gender equity
> within their athletic departments.
>         St. Mary's also was told to develop a gender equity plan and to
> develop a plan to address minority opportunities.
>         The three schools generally had plans, but nothing was in
> writing, said R. Gerald Turner, chancellor at the University of
> Mississippi and chairman of the certification committee.
>         Turner said he expected other institutions to be better prepared
> after seeing from the first group what the committee was looking
> for.
>         Certification, approved at the 1993 NCAA convention, is designed
> to show an institution is operating its athletic department in
> ``substantial conformity'' with the operating principles of
> Division I, the NCAA said.
>         The process was designed to measure academic and financial
> integrity, commitment to following NCAA rules and commitment to
> equity.
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