Can we give an academic scholarship?
What's the diff between an athletic schol and an academic one?
The difference (at least when I had them) was in the requirements to maintain said scholarships. Academic had minimum credit hour requirements per quarter/semester and a much higher than minimum gpa requirement to maintain the scholly. Guys on athletic ones just needed to stay eligible per minimum NCAA rules.
So, for instance, many athletes would only take minimum # of credit hours and stuff it with gen-eds/easy classes (as they could) when they were in season, and then make up for it during out of season quarters. Couldn't do that if you were on an academic scholly.
For us there were also some additional stipulations put on the athletes on athletic scholly's - such as mandatory study table sessions etc - which is something that wasn't mandatory for academic scholarships (but generally considered wise to utilize).
Edit to add - I'd also say that academic scholly's were re-awarded on a quarter-by-quarter (semester now) basis. If you failed to meet the requirements (depending on how bad you did - thankfully I never found out) I believe they put you on academic probation for the next quarter and if you didn't get back above the threshold then the scholarship was revoked the next quarter. For athletic scholarships, unless the coach/AD were a-holes, they didn't do much revoking of scholarships. Once you had it you had it unless you trasnferred/voluntarily gave it up or became full on ineligible/kicked out of school by NCAA.
Last Edited: 3/22/2016 10:10:05 AM by GraffZ06