Big Ten Colleges Announce 4-Year Athletic Scholarships
The Big Ten is a collection of colleges with a focus on intercollegiate sports; currently there are 14 member universities in the Big Ten. Members of the Big Ten include schools like Northwestern, Purdue University, and Rutgers University.
On October 8th, the Big Ten released news of a scholarship policy which would “guarantee 4-year scholarships for athletes.” Previously at many colleges, a student’s athletic scholarship could be taken away after one or two years, as noted in an 2012 Slate article.
Future student-athletes who will attend a Big Ten school on an athletic scholarship can keep their scholarship as long as they “remain a member in good standing with the community, the university, and the athletics department.”
(Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education)