Four schools cleared for active DI status By Gary Brown NCAA.org Pending final approval from the Division I Board of Directors next month, Florida Gulf Coast University, Houston Baptist University, the University of North Carolina Central and the University of South Carolina Upstate will become active members of Division I as of Sept. 1. The four institutions were among those whose provisional/reclassifying membership status was reviewed by the Division I Administration Cabinet at its June 29 meeting. The decisions aren’t final until the Board of Directors considers them at its Aug. 11 meeting. The four schools were in the process of reclassifying to Division I when the Board implemented a membership moratorium in 2007 to study enhanced membership standards. Legislation establishing a new reclassification process was adopted earlier this year and becomes effective Aug. 1 when the moratorium expires. In that vein, the cabinet accepted its first post-moratorium application request from the University of Nebraska Omaha, which is seeking to reclassify its athletics program from Division II. Nebraska Omaha will now begin a four-year reclassification process. Cabinet members also accepted applications from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; the University of South Alabama; and Texas State University-San Marcos to begin a two-year reclassification from the Football Championship Subdivision to the Football Bowl Subdivision. http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect...uly/four schools cleared for active di status
