SEC Colleges to Determine Pupil-Athlete Tutorial Awards

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (September 23, 2021) – Following the Supreme Court docket’s resolution in Alston v. NCAA, the Southeastern Convention presidents and chancellors have voted to substantiate that every SEC member college now has the discretion to find out standards and strategies to offer education-related advantages and educational achievement awards to their student-athletes, in line with the Court docket’s current resolution.

The Alston resolution granted universities the chance to offer student-athletes with extra education-related advantages corresponding to computer systems, science tools and musical devices, together with direct monetary assist within the type of educational achievement awards, as much as the legally established most of $5,980 per 12 months.

Whereas the Alston resolution permits particular person conferences to set limits on the brand new instructional advantages, the SEC’s presidents and chancellors have elected to not place extra constraints on Convention members in figuring out how one can present this new assist to their student-athletes. The unanimous vote by the SEC’s presidents and chancellors was an approval of a suggestion from the Convention’s athletics administrators.

“The presidents, chancellors and athletics administrators of our 14 universities have decided it’s applicable for SEC athletics packages to have discretion and adaptability to offer assist for student-athletes of their educational and athletic endeavors,” stated SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey. “Whereas the Alston resolution invited particular person conferences to impose limits on education-related advantages and educational awards, the SEC believes it’s in the perfect pursuits of our student-athletes for these selections to be made on the campus stage relatively than by Convention coverage.”