Dear Division I NAAC Members:

One of NAAC's goals is to create universal compliance standards to guide athletics departments and compliance professionals in their efforts to properly monitor compliance with the NCAA rules as well as establish and maintain institutional control.  Your feedback via a prior survey helped NAAC's Committee on Reasonable Standards establish a starting point for developing these standards.  We have drafted a few potential standards (relative to complimentary admissions, recruiting evaluations and contacts, and countable athletically-related activities) and now want to make sure that they reflect tasks that are reasonable based on current practices.  Thus, it is important that we gather your feedback regarding how you are monitoring the selected areas as we prepare to solidify the details of each of the currently drafted standards.

Please note the following before you delve into the survey:

• We would like only one survey per institution.
• The survey will take about 20 minutes. It will be very much worth the time you put into it because the data we will gather is extremely important in this process.
• Your input through this survey will have a direct impact on what is included in the reasonable standards. It will help shape what is considered "reasonable" in this process.
• We do not take lightly the fact that we all get a little nervous when admitting what we do or don't do as it relates to monitoring. This survey is anonymous because your honest answers are the only way we will move toward establishing any standard that is reasonable. We need to know what the landscape looks like in the above-referenced areas in order to accomplish this task.
• We are asking some questions that are currently outside the scope of the drafted standards. So, everything included in the survey necessarily will not become part of the standards. Please don't panic!

The link for the survey is as follows:  http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=zuSV2_2bjOB9d9DeJoa8a7PQ_3d_3d.  We are requesting responses by November 25^th - so you can head into the Thanksgiving holiday knowing you did your part to help your professional association!  Thanks in advance for your input and support of this process.  If you have questions or would like to provide additional input regarding reasonable standards, please feel free to contact me directly. 

With sincere thanks and best wishes for a terrific holiday season!

Kate Hickey
Chair, NAAC Committee on Reasonable Standards
Senior Associate Athletics Director
Rutgers University
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