Understanding the factors that influence student-athlete enrollment is fundamental to achieving recruitment goals. This is especially true at NAIA institutions, where, on average, student-athletes make up 20 percent of undergraduate populations. In the spring of 2024, the NAIA sought to further explore the key determinants of student-athletes’ enrollment decisions by surveying current NAIA student-athletes. Participants […]
Watch Now: College Athletics at a Crossroads
College athletics and the broader higher education sector are facing sustained headwinds from ongoing challenges, emerging threats, and unprecedented change. The complex and ever-changing nature of this instability makes it difficult to fully assess the implications this has for the NAIA and its members. During the NAIA National Convention earlier this spring, Chesney Sallee, vice […]


