Why were some multi-divisional schools permitted to add a second scholarship sport?
Some multi-divisional institutions have elevated or added a scholarship Division I sport since 1982-1983. When the waiver was revised in 1994, the membership included the following language: “This provision also applies to such an institution that later reclassifies a sport for the opposite gender to Division I.” If this had not been included, any multi-divisional school that took advantage of the waiver might have fallen out of Title IX compliance.
