Executive Committee
- Meet on matters calling for immediate action and at times when meetings of the full Athletic Council are not possible.
- Identify and assign problems to standing subcommittees and ad-hoc committees for study and receive reports from these committees.
- Serve as the personnel committee of the Council upon request of the President.
- Review compliance reports submitted by the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics and ensure that the Department is in compliance with all Conference and Association policies.
- Advise the President on an emergency basis.
- Recommend faculty and staff for membership on the Athletic Council.
Standing Committees of the Athletic Council. The Chair of the Athletic Council will select the Chairs of the Standing Committees and will appoint each committee and, with the exception of the Academic Committee, will appoint each committee after soliciting volunteers from the Council membership.
Academic Committee
All faculty members of the Council are members of the committee. The general role of the Academic Committee is to ensure that appropriate academic standards are established and maintained for all student-athletes and that all participants recognize the priority of successful academic performance by all student-athletes. In fulfilling this function, the Committee shall make appropriate recommendations to the Athletic Council. In particular, the Committee shall have the following duties:
- Recommend policies and procedures regarding standards and criteria for admission of student-athletes.
- Recommend academic policies and procedures regarding standards and criteria for continuing eligibility of student-athletes to participate in intercollegiate sports.
- Consider and decide academic appeals of student-athletes concerned with eligibility.
- Review every semester the academic program and progress of student-athletes.
- Recommend policies for and monitor the activities of the academic support services provided to the student-athletes.
- Recommend policies regarding post-season and tournament participation by athletic teams.
- Recommend policies regarding scheduling and practice time.
Budget and Facilities Committee
The general purpose of this Committee is to monitor but not manage those activities of the Athletic Department pertaining to budget and facilities. In fulfilling this function, the Committee shall make appropriate recommendations to the Athletic Council. More specifically, responsibilities of the Committee shall include the following:
- Monitor the preparation of the athletic budget(s) by the Director of Intercollegiate Athletics.
- Review and analyze for the Council the final budget(s) submitted by the Director of Intercollegiate Athletics to the President.
- Establish criteria and make recommendations, with the advice of the Director of Intercollegiate Athletics, regarding which sports shall be certified as intercollegiate sports.
- Review policies regarding the number and distribution of athletic scholarships to be awarded annually.
- Review and recommend policies for athletic event price schedules, seating priorities and allocation of tickets to various groups.
- Review and recommend policies regarding utilization and development of intercollegiate athletic facilities.
- Monitor the financial accountability of the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics.
Student Life Committee
This Committee is concerned with all non-academic aspects of the student-athlete's involvement with the University. In fulfilling this function, the Committee shall make appropriate recommendations to the Athletic Council. More specifically, the responsibilities of the Committee shall include the following:
- Review and recommend policies concerning the nature and type of health screening and drug testing.
- Review and recommend policies regarding practice schedules.
- Review and recommend policies for determining when health and other non-academic factors will be used to restrict a student's involvement in intercollegiate athletics.
- Review and recommend policies for and monitor activities of non-academic support programs and placement services.
- Review and recommend policies regarding scholarship awards and retention of these awards.
- Review and recommend policies for housing assignments.
- Assist the Athletic Council in assuring the personal and social development of all student-athletes and their full integration into campus life.
External Affairs Committee
This Committee is concerned with external activities of the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. In fulfilling this function, the Committee shall make appropriate recommendations to the Athletic Council. More specifically, the responsibilities of the Committee shall include the following:
- Review and endorse fundraising activities.
- Review and recommend policies for complementary distribution of tickets to athletic events.
- Review and recommend guidelines and/or policies for all sports marketing activities (i.e. sports camps, special events, endorsements, etc.)
- Review and recommend guidelines and/or policies for interactions with alumni and friends of the Athletic Department including the Terrapin Club, the "M" Club, and the Maryland Education Foundation.
- Review and recommend policies and/or guidelines for all media interactions.
Professional Sports Counseling Panel (PSCP)
The PSCP is a committee of the Athletic Council authorized under NCAA by-law 12.3.4 to advise and assist student athletes in preparation for professional athletic careers. Consonant with its charge, the University of Maryland, College Park PSCP provides:
- Education and advice to student athletes about NCAA amateurism rules and professional sports careers.
- Oversight to the Athletic Department's implementation of University and NCAA regulations regarding contacts between student athletes and agents.
- Advice to the Athletic Council on matters related to its charge.
