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WHAT IS COMPLIANCE?
Compliance Principles
Principle of Institutional Control
It is the responsibility of each member institution to control its intercollegiate athletics program in compliance with the rules and regulations of the NCAA. The institution's president or chancellor is responsible for the administration of all aspects of the athletics program, including approval of the budget and audit of all expenditures.
Principle of Institutional Responsibility
The institution's responsibility for the conduct of its intercollegiate athletics program includes responsibility for the actions of its staff members and for the actions of any other individual or organization engaged in activities promoting the athletics interests of the institution.
Principle of Rules Compliance
Each institution shall comply with all applicable rules and regulations of the NCAA in the conduct of its intercollegiate athletics programs. It shall monitor its programs to assure compliance and to identify and report to the NCAA instances in which compliance has not been achieved. In any such instance, the institution shall cooperate fully with the NCAA and shall take appropriate corrective actions. Members of an institution's staff, student-athletes, and other individuals and groups representing the institution's athletics interests shall comply with the applicable NCAA rules, and the member institution shall be responsible for such compliance.
What is the role of the Bowie State University Compliance Office?
To ensure institutional control and uphold the integrity of the Department, the Athletic Compliance Office is charged with the following tasks:
• Education
Compliance education programs are conducted for all coaches, administrators, staff, faculty and student-athletes with the goal of familiarizing these individuals with applicable NCAA, CIAA and institutional rules and reducing the risk of a rules violation.
• Monitoring
The Athletic Compliance Office creates, implements and oversees systems to monitor recruiting, academic eligibility, financial aid, awards, extra benefits, ethical conduct, amateurism, agents, and playing and practice seasons for all sports. These monitoring systems are intended not only to discover violations that have occurred, but to deter violations from occurring.
• Enforcement
While it is a goal of the Athletic Compliance Office to reduce the number of rules violations that occur, it is important that when violations occur, appropriate actions are taken. It is the responsibility of the Compliance Office to determine how the violation occurred and how to prevent similar violations from occurring in the future. The Athletic Compliance Office then reports the violation to the NCAA and/or the CIAA and self-imposes appropriate penalties.
