Northeast Conference - NCAA Compliance Guidelines Alumni and Friends

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NCAA Compliance Guidelines Alumni and Friends

The Northeast Conference and its member institutions are committed to operating its athletics programs with the highest degree of integrity, and in compliance with all rules and regulations of NEC and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Please know that any inappropriate contacts or actions may jeopardize the eligibility of prospects and/or studentathletes as well as lead to sanctions being imposed on a member institution.

It is the responsibility of all NCAA member institutions to control its intercollegiate athletics program in compliance with all of the rules and regulations set forth by the NCAA. The institution�s responsibility for the conduct of its athletics program includes responsibility for the actions of its staff members and any other organization or persons engaged in activities promoting the athletic interests of the institution.

Institutions must monitor its program to assure compliance and to identify and report to the NCAA instances in which compliance has not been achieved. Any individual engaging in conduct that is determined to be a violation of NCAA legislation can lose their benefits and privileges he/she receives from their association with his/her respective institution.

Definitions

Prospective Student-Athlete (prospect) � A prospect is defined as an individual who has begun classes for the ninth (9th) grade. However, it is possible for a student who is still in a lower grade to be considered as a prospect, if he/she receives a benefit from the institution that is not permitted per NCAA regulations. A student in junior college, prep school and students who have officially withdrawn from a four-year college are also considered prospects under NCAA regulations.

Student-Athlete - A student-athlete is a student who is enrolled at a four-year institution and whose enrollment was solicited by a member of the athletics staff or other representative of athletics interests with a view toward the student's participation in the intercollegiate athletics program.

Contact - A contact is any face-to-face encounter between a prospect or the prospect's parent or legal guardian, and an institutional staff member or athletics representative during which ANY dialogue occurs in excess of an exchange of a greeting. Any such face-to-face encounter that is prearranged or that takes place on the grounds of the prospects educational institution, practice, or competition shall be considered a contact, regardless of whether conversation occurs or not.

Recruiting - Recruiting is any solicitation (by phone, mail, or in-person) of a prospect or a prospect's family member, or legal guardian. Only those institutional coaches who have passed the NCAA Recruiting Test are permitted to recruit for the institution.

Representative of Athletics Interests (booster) - A "representative of the institution's athletics interests" or booster is an individual who is known (or who should have been known) by the institution to:

� Have participated in or is a member of an agency or organization promoting the institution's intercollegiate athletics program (e.g., a booster club, athletic foundation, university club); � Have made financial contributions to the athletics department or to an athletics booster organization of that institution;

� Be assisting or to have been requested (by the athletics department staff) to assist in the recruitment of prospects;

� Be assisting or to have assisted in providing benefits to enrolled student-athletes or their families (e.g., helping to arrange summer and/or vacation employment for student-athlete); or

� Have been involved otherwise in promoting the institution's athletics program Once an individual is identified as an athletics representative, that status is retained indefinitely.

Extra Benefit - An extra benefit is any special arrangement by an institutional employee or an athletics representative to provide a prospect or a student-athlete (or the prospect or studentathlete's relatives or friends) with a benefit not expressly authorized by NCAA legislation. The following are examples of extra benefits:

� Giving cash or loans in any amount;
� Signing or co-signing a note with an outside agency to arrange a loan;
� Employing relatives or friends of a student-athlete;
� Giving gifts of any kind (e.g., birthday, Christmas, Valentine's Day) or free services (e.g., clothing, airline tickets, laundry, car repair, haircuts, meals in restaurants);
� Providing special discounts for goods or services;
� Providing use of an automobile;
� Providing a meal other than in your home on special infrequent occasions (e.g., Thanksgiving, birthday);
� Providing use of your summer home to go water skiing, hunting, etc;
� Providing transportation for any purpose;
� Providing rent free or reduced rent housing;
� Providing a benefit connected with on or off campus housing (e.g., television set, stereo equipment);
� Providing tickets to an athletic, institutional or community event;
� Providing a guarantee of a bond;
� Providing promise of financial aid for postgraduate education; or
� Promising employment after college graduation.

National Letter of Intent (NLI) - The NLI is an official document administered by the Collegiate Commissioners Association and utilized by subscribing member institutions to establish the commitment of a prospect to attend a particular institution. The NLI commits a prospect to that institution for one academic year, even if the coach resigns or is terminated.

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