26 October 2011
By Cavalier Daily Editorial Board
At a Monday meeting of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, Mark Emmert, president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, announced that this week he will propose a plan to the Division I Board of Directors that would help close what is known as the “scholarship gap” for student-athletes. The scholarship gap has arisen from a systemic flaw in the financial aid awarded to student-athletes, which covers only “tuition and fees, room and board, and required course-related books,” according to the NCAA by-laws.