Types of Aid
Aid administered by the institution that requires the student to participate in college athletics
What is athletics aid?
Any SA who receives athletics aid is known by this term.
What is a counter?
Athletics aid may cover this number of meals per day.
What are three meals a day?
Earnings from this source are not counted toward a Full Grant-inAid if certain conditions are met.
Athletics scholarship agreements are normally valid for this length of time.
What is one academic year?
Financial aid that covers tuition and fees, food, housing, and required books and supplies.
What is Full Grant-in-Aid (FGIA)?
A SA injured before any CARA activity who can never compete again is classified as this for the year.
What is a non-counter?
Off-campus housing may be covered up to the equivalent cost of this type of housing.
What is on-campus housing?
For employment pay to be excluded from FGIA, the job must involve only this.
What is actual work performed?
Athletics aid may be less than a full year if the student-athlete enrolls during this point in the academic year.
What is midyear enrollment?
The total cost of tuition, fees, food, housing, books, supplies, transportation, and other education-related expenses
What is the Cost of Attendance (COA)?
Receiving athletics aid during this academic period does not make a SA countable.
What is the summer or winter term?
These are the only four expense areas an institution may cover through a Full Grant-in-Aid.
What are tuition and fees, housing, food, and books/supplies?
When calculating equivalencies, the value of books and supplies is always counted as this dollar amount.
What is $800?
An institution may reduce or cancel aid if a SA engages in serious misconduct or provides false information on these documents.
What are applications, letters of intent, or financial aid agreements?
Institutions cannot provide financial aid that exceeds this total amount.
What is the Cost of Attendance (COA)?
Student-athletes who have used up their eligibility but still receive aid are classified this way.
There is no limit to the amount of aid that can cover these required educational materials.
What are books and supplies?
This formula determines a SA's scholarship fraction.
What is Aid Received divided by FGIA value?
Aid may not be reduced or cancelled because of these three reasons related to performance and health.
What are ability, performance, or injury/illness?
This federal award allows a student-athlete to receive aid exceeding the value of a Full Grant-in-Aid.
What is the Pell Grant exception?
A athlete that only counts toward the sport listed in their scholarship agreement.
What is a multi-sport athlete?
This can be increased for any reason at any time.
What is Athletics Aid?
A multi-sport athlete counts toward the equivalency limits of this sport.
What is sport listed in their scholarship agreement?
By this date, institutions must notify SA's in writing whether their aid is being renewed.
What is July 1?