Indiana University bans athletes with history of sexual violence
The policy, approved earlier this month by the university’s Faculty Athletics Committee, specifically bans “any prospective student-athlete — whether a transfer student, incoming freshman, or other status — who has been convicted of or pled guilty or no contest to a felony involving sexual violence (as defined below), or has been found responsible for sexual violence by a formal institutional disciplinary action at any previous collegiate or secondary school.”
The SEC implemented a similar ban on its member schools in 2015. Programs are barred from accepting transfers who have a history of “serious misconduct,” which includes domestic and sexual assault.
The Big Ten does not have such a policy, and instead leaves those decisions up to its member schools.
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