ARTICLE VI
GRANTS-IN-AID, RECRUITMENT AND BOOSTER CLUBS
Section 1. Grants-in-aid - Same as NJCAA with the following exceptions:
a. The total amount of an institutional athletic grant-in-aid for a certified athlete shall not exceed the cost of tuition and books at the conference school attended.  If an athlete is awarded a scholarship by a source not affiliated with a particular college, and if that source awards such scholarships without restriction to college of attendance, and if the student competes for the scholarship in the same manner as any other student, he/she may accept such additional scholarship(s).  In addition, an athlete who qualifies and maintains a cumulative 3.5 G.P.A. may receive an academic scholarship administered by and through the institution in attendance; such scholarship shall not exceed $500 per semester. (3-7-94)

   b. Any facilities provided by or donated to the college or owned by an organization for the purpose of providing rooms and/or meals must be open to all students at the same prevailing charges.  (3-7-94)

c. A college may pay for athletic injuries and related complications. (3-7-94)

d. Pre-game and post-game meals may be provided at home and away games. (3-7-94)

    e. The KJCCC does not allow room and board to be included in conference grant-in-aid.  However for Division I programs only, when the student/athlete is required to be on campus due to institutional, conference, and/or competition, when school is not in regular session, the institution shall have the option to provide room and board.  Those dates for the opening of practice and post-season play up to and through such time as they have qualified for post-season play.  This covers fifteen (15) days per grant-in-aid during the school year. (3-7-94)

    f. Trips for recruits ten (10) days prior to the start of a semester are not allowed.

   g. Purchasing of food, drinks or any other items for Kansas recruits by coaches is prohibited during all off-campus contacts excluding travel to and from during official visit. (8-6-93)

    h. No personal contact may be made with a prospective student athlete who resides in the State of Kansas, for 48 hours prior to the NJCAA designated letter-of-intent/scholarship agreement signing date.  The first contact after the dead period would be 8:00 a.m. on the designated letter-of-intent / scholarship agreement signing date. Contact by phone is permissible.

Dead Period for Football Recruiting.  The time begins the Sunday prior to the national signing date at midnight and ends at midnight on the Thursday following the national signing day.  (3-9-98)

    i. Only those student athletes that are competing in their second year, in any sport, in the Jayhawk Conference may be assigned to a residence job.

Section 2. Letters-of-Intent - The same as the NJCAA Rules Article VIII except for the following additions.  

Each KJCCC college will be required to submit to the commissioners office no later than the twenty fifth of each month a complete listing of signed letters of intent, via e-mail.  The commissioner office will complile a composite of all letters and forward them to the conference presidents, athletic directors and post them on the conference web page by sport. (8-09-2002)

a. The issuing of the letter-of-intent shall be signed and dated by the Director of Athletics before submission for the athlete's signature.  The athlete may receive the letter-of-intent prior to the official signing date.  The letter-of-intent will be honored by the KJCCC only if the terms of the offer to the prospective athlete are in writing and spelled out at the time the offer is presented.  Under no conditions will the letter-of-intent be honored by the KJCCC if it contains contingencies within it such as "if you (the prospective athlete) make the team or squad, you will be given a grant-in-aid."

b. A letter-of-intent shall not prohibit a student from participating in KJCCC athletic activities at the KJCCC college in the district in which the student resides.

c.  Signing letters-of-intent by in-state students for football is limited to the NJCAA signing date through March 1, and then after the fifteenth (15) of May. No in-state student shall sign a letter-of-intent on campus or off campus in the presence of a coach, college personnel, booster, or anyone affiliated with the college. Football coaches can not recruit an in-state student off campus or pay for a campus visit from March 2, until after May 15, but no letter-of-intent can be signed off campus in the presence of a coach, college personnel, booster, or others affiliated with the college. (8-8-03)

d. Promising or guaranteeing prospective student athletes dollar amounts for institutional work or residence assistance jobs in exchange for signing a letter-of-intent shall be prohibited. (3-9-98)
    1. Student athletes desiring institutional work study, residence assistants, or student ambassador positions     must compete for those positions using the same institutional criteria as all other students.
    2. The rate of compensation or stipends allowed for institutional work study, residence assistants, or student ambassador positions will be no higher than compensation or stipend allowed for all other students in similar positions and are not to exceed the Federal Work Study Guidelines.
    3. Individual colleges must report to the Conference Office the number of student athletes on work study, the amount of compensation, and the duties of those student athletes. (3-05)

e. Signing letters-of-intent by in-state students for all sports, except football, shall not be signed on or off campus in the presence of a coach, college personnel, booster, or others affiliated with the college on the NJCAA signing date and for a period of 30 calendar days from the NJCAA signing date. (8-04)

Section 3. Booster Club:  Same as NJCAA.(8-09-2002)

Section 4. Enforcement: A student athlete who accepts from a member institution or its representative monies and/or gifts or knowingly accepts grant-in-aid in excess of what is allowed by the KJCCC shall forfeit one (1) academic year.(8-6-93)
a. The practice of sequestering prospective student athletes in advance of the signing deadline for Letter-of-Intent, and paying for hotel rooms, meals or any other benefits at this time will be considered a violation of Conference rules.
b. It is the responsibility of Conference member coaches and athletic staff to be aware of Conference rules relating to grants-in-aid and other limitations on payments, gifts or to gratuities given to potential and current Conference student athletes and to inform the student athletes and their high school coaches/counselors regarding such restrictions.
c. Whenever there is an allegation or confirmed infraction of this section of the KJCCC By-Law by a Conference college, no other Conference college(s) may recruit the athlete(s) involved without written authorization from the KJCCC Commissioner.(3-7-94)