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Purpose and Goals Athletics certification is meant to ensure the NCAA's fundamental commitment to integrity in intercollegiate athletics. The program is structured to achieve its goal in several ways: • By opening the affairs of athletics to the university community and the public. o Key campus constituent groups must be meaningfully involved in the institution's self-study. • By setting standards (called operating principles) for the operation of Division I athletics programs. o These operating principles were adopted overwhelmingly at the 1993 NCAA Convention. They cover four basic areas - governance and commitment to rule compliance, academic integrity, fiscal integrity, and equity, welfare and sportsmanship. • By putting tough sanctions in place for institutions that fail to conduct a comprehensive self-study or to correct problems. o Athletics certification is intended to help an institution, not harm it. For this reason, the program allows ample time for an institution to consider its programs, to identify problems and to correct them. Institutions that fail to make an honest effort face serious consequences: ineligibility for NCAA championships and, eventually, removal from active membership in the Association. Three sub-committees are identified by the NCAA to assist institutions in meeting the purpose and goals of the process. They are: • Subcommittee on Governance and Commitment to Rules Compliance The primary goal of this recertification process is to ensure that DePaul University complies with the standards set forth by the NCAA Athletics Certification in its Self-Study Instrument, to determine if progress has been made in the recommendations generated from the previous ten-year certification cycle, and to make recommendations for improvement where needed. |
