In 1985, the NCAA began conducting studies to examine student-athletes' use of drugs, alcohol and tobacco. The study's 10th and current iteration shows declines in the use of narcotic pain medication and spit tobacco, as well as binge drinking, among student-athletes.

The NCAA has released a historical membership dashboard, a first-of-its-kind resource that includes high-level details and summary information on every NCAA member school and conference. 

The NCAA Women's Volleyball Rules Committee, which met this week in Indianapolis, recommended allowing players to contact the ball more than once with any part of the body in a single attempt on a team's second contact when the ball is played to a teammate.

Data from the NCAA Student-Athlete Health and Wellness Study shows student-athletes are reporting fewer mental health concerns than they did during the height of the pandemic, although the improvements are smaller in some demographics. The full study will be released at the 2024 NCAA Convention in Phoenix.

The NCAA announced this month that it has engaged Signify Group to provide its Threat Matrix artificial intelligence service to support the Association in studying and responding to online abuse and threats directed at NCAA Championship participants including student-athletes, coaches, officials and committee members. This unique initiative is intended to further promote the mental health and well-being of the college sports community through data collection and analytics. 

NCAA Division I student-athletes are graduating at record rates, according to the latest Graduation Success Rate data announced Wednesday. The overall single-cohort rate increased by 1 point to 91 percent, which is the highest rate recorded.

The NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Subdivision Oversight Committees recently adopted legislation to increase the number of official recruiting visits a school can host from 56 to 70 each academic year.

Two key takeaways from the 2022 Cannabis in Collegiate Athletics Summit, hosted by the NCAA Sport Science Institute, included agreement that cannabinoids are not a performance-enhancing substance and that moving to a campus-focused harm-reduction and education model could best help schools prevent, identify and manage problematic cannabinoid use.

The NCAA Division I Council Coordination Committee this month adjusted the guidelines for student-athlete reinstatement cases in which student-athletes wager on other teams at their own schools.

At a meeting recently at the national office in Indianapolis, the NCAA Division III Presidents Council approved the hiring of an outside vendor to conduct a financial analysis of the division.

At its annual fall meeting recently in Cleveland, the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Committee reviewed planning efforts for the upcoming season and the 2024 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship.

The NIT Board of Managers has announced changes for the 2024 National Invitation Tournament that impact how teams qualify.

The NCAA Division II Presidents Council at its meeting in Indianapolis recently appointed two independent members to serve on the Division II Executive Board, the modified version of the Presidents Council that will take over Feb. 1.

The Division I Board of Directors recently charged NCAA staff and committees to review existing transfer rules and waiver guidelines and consider potential modifications to improve the efficiency of the waiver process, including increasing, where possible, objectivity of criteria. Any such modifications would be applied for any student-athletes seeking immediate eligibility for the 2024-25 academic year.

The NCAA Division III Management Council ratified the action taken by the Administrative Committee to increase the championship per diem to $125 (with a $55 host per diem), effective immediately.