The SASS Academic Coordinators follow the direction of the departmental advisors when working with the student-athletes. Student-athletes start working with their SASS Coordinator after they have completed their freshman or transfer orientation at NIU. SASS Coordinators help student-athletes with class scheduling to help ensure those classes will not conflict with their team’s practice time. Student-athletes are allowed to register early on NIU’s campus. This guarantees them class schedules that allow them to balance both their academic and athletic time commitments. It is important that Student-Athletes meet with their departmental advisors and SASS Coordinator each semester.

Academic Monitoring
Progress reports are sent out to the professors for all of the student-athletes classes. Reports are sent during the 5th and 10th week of each semester and information is shared with the student-athletes and their coaches. SASS Coordinators will also call instructors periodically to check the academic status of the student-athletes. Meetings between SASS Coordinators and the more “underprepared” student-athletes are held each week to help monitor academic progress.3

Eligibility Monitoring
The SASS Staff work closely with NIU’s Registration and Records department and the Athletic Compliance staff to monitor the eligibility status of the student-athletes. SASS Academic Coordinators receive eligibility reports from Registration and Records periodically that enable them to stay on top of eligibility issues.

NIU RESOURCES

NIU Records and Registration
NIU Admissions
NIU Academic Calendar

SASS FORMS / DOCUMENTS

SASS Team Advisor(s) by Sport
Important Dates / Deadlines
Student Athlete Handbook
College / Department Advisors
NCAA Compliance