Talk:List of NAIA institutions

Updating

How does anyone else feel about the total reorganization of how this page looks? I thought the old layout was easier on the eye. The primary advantage of the current layout is being able to organize all the schools alphabetically and by conference. I'm not convinced knowing if they are Division 1 or 2 for basketball purposes is all that useful, especially since the NAIA is seriously talking about eliminating those divisions anyway. Anyone else's thoughts? EmjayMiller (talk) 20:01, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

I have generally update this page once a year around the NAIA Tournament time in March. All schools should have a uniformed talk-header and nested project pages, which fulfills protocol for the University Projects. Moonraker0022 (talk) 03:40, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

I haven't looked to see who is doing it, but schools still in the NAIA, but transitioning to the NCAA, have been deleted from this list. I just took the asterisks off the schools that applied in 2011, but were turned down by the NCAA -- it's common that many more schools apply than are actually accepted. Likewise, at a minimum it's a 3 year process to transition from the NAIA to the NCAA and some schools take longer and some schools don't finish the process at all. That said, it's still common to consider NAIA schools that make it to the 2nd year of the NCAA process and definitely to the 3rd year to be considered "NCAA schools", even though they are technically not NCAA members until voted in their 4th year (assuming they weren't held back). Shouldn't we develop a standard for these cases? Personally, I'd like to report which year of the process they are in, since we are after all trying to be as detailed as possible. EmjayMiller (talk) 05:07, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

As an update, I've noticed that the NAIA official website is updating which schools are in and which are out on a very timely basis, so that's now my standard of inclusion and exclusion. For the record, they generally remove a school in their second year of transition to the NCAA, assuming they completed their first year of transition successfully. The major exception to that seems to be schools that apply for the NCAA two years in a row and get accepted, then get removed upon acceptance, without the year delay. I presume this is tied to the relatively new NAIA rule that schools that apply two years in a row to the NCAA lose their right to compete for NAIA championships as a result. There are also schools that are leaving the NAIA, but not joining the NCAA and again, the NAIA wesbite seems to be updating these promptly, so I am trying to follow their lead. EmjayMiller (talk) 20:01, 16 September 2012 (UTC)