Didn the presidents survey mailed last April reveal that a majority of the membership supported the elimination of multi-divisional classification?
The eight multi-divisional institutions believe that the survey respondents did not fully understand the issue they were being asked to consider. This document is an effort to increase understanding of the very good reasons why a very few Division III institutions have been granted a waiver and allowed to be multi- divisional and offer athletics grants-in-aid in our Division I sports. Focus groups conducted by the NCAA in April and May indicated that the majority felt it was better to celebrate differences among institutions and conferences within Division III than to try to make rules to bring the institutions even closer together. Furthermore, when asked specifically about multi-divisional classification, many in the focus groups felt that those institutions with established multi-divisional programs should be left alone, but that new grants of multi-divisional status should not be made.
