NCAA to Pay Ath­letes for Use of Their Like­ness

Mishawaka— NCAA di­ver­sion is de­clar­ing that stu­dents in there di­vi­sion should get paid on top of their schol­ar­ships. NCAA wants ath­letes to be paid for the use of their name, but within cer­tain guide­lines: 

As­sure that stu­dent-ath­letes are treated sim­i­larly to non-ath­lete stu­dents un­less a com­pelling rea­son ex­ists to dif­fer­en­ti­ate.

Main­tain the pri­or­i­ties of ed­u­ca­tion and the col­le­giate ex­pe­ri­ence to pro­vide op­por­tu­ni­ties for stu­dent-ath­lete suc­cess.

En­sure rules are trans­par­ent, fo­cused and en­force­able and fa­cil­i­tate fair and bal­anced com­pe­ti­tion.

Make clear the dis­tinc­tion be­tween col­le­giate and pro­fes­sional op­por­tu­ni­ties.

Make clear that com­pen­sa­tion for ath­let­ics per­for­mance or par­tic­i­pa­tion is im­per­mis­si­ble.  

Reaf­firm that stu­dent-ath­letes are stu­dents first and not em­ploy­ees of the uni­ver­sity. En­hance prin­ci­ples of di­ver­sity, in­clu­sion and gen­der eq­uity.

Pro­tect the re­cruit­ing en­vi­ron­ment and pro­hibit in­duce­ments to se­lect, re­main at, or trans­fer to a spe­cific in­sti­tu­tion. 

As of now Bethel Uni­ver­sity is not af­fected by this rule. 

In­for­ma­tion pro­vided by www.ncaa.org