What You Need to Know About the NAIA Eligibility Center

1. What You Need to Know About the NAIA Eligibility Center Name Title

2. Challenges faced by the Eligibility Center • Peak periods for the Eligibility Center occur as a sport’s season begins • Students often left out schools they attended; this delayed the receipt of a determination while we waited on transcripts • NAIA rules often require the Eligibility Center to contact a third party for additional information

3. Learning from challenges • Tell prospective students to register early! • Avoid peak times at the beginning of sport seasons • Help students understand eligibility requirements/what to have ready when registering • Students must disclose ALL schools EVER attended or enrolled in and have official transcripts sent from each • Talk to students about how the registration process works • Transfer student determinations take time; students should be prepared to answer phone calls and emails from the Eligibility Center

5. When does a student need to go through the Eligibility Center? • ALL first-time NAIA student-athletes • Previously determined “Not Eligible” by the Center • Previously determined “Eligible” by the Center, but never enrolled at an NAIA school • Previously determined “Eligible” by the Center, but never competed and did not maintain continuous identificationat the same NAIA school

6. PlayNAIA Manager • Your school’s NAIA Eligibility Center home base • AD grants access permissions • Login at PlayNAIA.org • Manage Short List, access NAIA Connections, view the Directory of Competition

7. Login for PlayNAIA Manager

9. Short List • Each school adds recruits from registered students to help the Center determine priority students • Only students on Short Lists will receive an eligibility determination • Exclusive to your school; cannot be seen outside your school • Use your Short List to view a student’s status • Students who will not be competing at your school should be removed from the Short List as soon as possible

10. View status, reactivate students from Short List

11. Directory of Competition • Evolving list of competitive experiences that the Eligibility Center has reviewed • Shows whether each league is determined to be chargeable, not chargeable, pending, or submitted for review • Not an all-inclusive list – includes only competitive experiences that have been researched • Available only to Eligibility Center staff and designated NAIA campus personnel

12. Directory of Competition

13. NAIA Connections • Optional service for registered students • Customized Sport Resume that can be sent directly from student to up to 5 schools or searched by school • Find Sport Resumes in PlayNAIA Manager

14. NAIA Connections Sport Resume

15. NAIA Connections school search

16. Sport Resumes sent to your school

17. Common questions GPA • For transfer students • Calculated on the basis of all quality points divided by all GPA hours attempted from ALL previous colleges • For students who have identified at an NAIA school one or more terms • Cumulative GPA taken from NAIA school’s transcript • When applying 24/36 Hour Rule Exception, calculated the same way it is calculated for transfer students

18. Common questions 24/36 Hour Rule after initial identification • Any hours taken after initial identification at an NAIA school must be accepted and transferred in by the NAIA school to count toward rule • Transcripts from original institution AND NAIA school are required by the Eligibility Center • Hours are never converted for 24/36 hour rule

19. Common questions Repeat classes • IF your school transfers in a class, then the Eligibility Center defers to your evaluation of the course to determine whether the student has a repeat at your school • If your school does NOT transfer in the class, then we evaluate course descriptions and other relevant information to determine whether the student has a repeat

20. Common questions Progress Rule after initial identification • Hours must be transferred in to NAIA school after one or more terms of identification to count toward Progress Rule

21. Common questions Terms of attendance • A student is charged a term by representing the school in competition, OR • By enrolling in 12 or more institutional credit hours as reported by the official transcript after the institution’s census date

22. Common questions International students • NAIA admissions offices can send school-stamped copies of international academic records • These records must come from admissions or the registrar’s office (not the athletic department) • The records must be accompanied by a letter explaining how documents were received by your school • How the Eligibility Center converts international university credits may be different from the way your school does it • The EC uses a conversion rate that assumes 30 U.S. credits will be awarded for one academic year of coursework if the student took a normal class load

23. Common questions Competitive Experience • Students who maintain full-time enrollment consecutively from high school graduation forward are not exposed to the competitive experience rule • Seasons charged at previous institutions are taken at face value by the Eligibility Center • Unattached competition is not subject to the competitive experience rule (provided the student is full-time)

24. Common questions Using the secure online drop box • Available for NAIA registrars only • May be used to forward official NAIA school transcripts to the Eligibility Center • Cannot be used to forward transcripts you have on record that are for schools other than your own • Include both sides of transcript • Contact ECinfo@naia.org if you need instructions sent to you

25. Common questions Why is the Eligibility Center calling me? • Question about a possible repeat course • Something on the student’s transcript doesn’t add up • CLEP credits are not shown in a specific term • Student has credits that have not been transferred in

26. Questions? • Visit: PlayNAIA.org • Email: ECinfo@naia.org • Call: 866.881.6242 • Check out our social media: • Facebook.com/PlayNAIA • Twitter.com/Play_NAIA