Division I has granted active membership status to Kennesaw State, New Jersey Institute of Technology, North Florida and Utah Valley, effective this fall.

The Division I Leadership Council approved the actions based on recommendations from the NCAA Division I Administrative Cabinet. 

The Council also approved the following schools to become active Division I multidivisional members in the identified sports:

• Central Arkansas (women’s soccer, baseball)
• Florida Gulf Coast (women’s volleyball, baseball)
• Presbyterian (softball, men’s tennis)
• South Carolina Upstate (softball, men’s soccer)
• Western Kentucky (Football Championship Subdivision to Football Bowl Subdivision)

All of the schools were in the reclassification or provisional membership process before the Division I Board of Directors’ August 2007 decision to place a moratorium on new Division I members. That moratorium lasts through August 2011 but does not affect the progress of schools that had begun the process before August 2007.

The Division I Leadership Council is reviewing membership standards and is expected to develop additional criteria over the next year.