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 NAIA headquarters in Downtown Kansas City, pictured in 2008 | |
| Abbreviation | NAIA |
|---|---|
| Formation | 1940 |
| Legal status | Association |
| Headquarters | 120 W. 12th Street, Suite 700 Kansas City, Missouri 64105[1] |
Region served | United States, Canada, and U.S. Virgin Islands |
Membership | 241 |
President | Jim Carr[2] |
| Lynn Parman | |
Main organ | NAIA Council of Presidents |
| Website | naia.org |
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) established in 1940, is a college athletics association for colleges and universities in North America. Most colleges and universities in the NAIA offer athletic scholarships to their student athletes. Around $1.3 billion in athletic scholarship financial aid is awarded to student athletes annually.
For the 2023–24 season, it had 241 member institutions,[3] of which two are in British Columbia, one in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the rest in the continental United States, with over 83,000 student-athletes participating.[4] The NAIA, whose headquarters is in Kansas City, Missouri,[5] sponsors 28 national championships. CBS Sports Network, formerly called CSTV, serves as the national media outlet for the NAIA.[6] In 2014, ESPNU began carrying the NAIA Football National Championship.
- ^ "NAIA Staff Directory". Naia.org. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
- ^ Staff Directory at NARA.org, 12 Oct 2022
- ^ "2023-24 NAIA Member Institutions" (PDF). National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. Retrieved January 28, 2022.
- ^ "NAIA Member Schools". NAIA. Retrieved January 5, 2019.
- ^ "NAIA Headquarters Relocating to Downtown Kansas City, Mo". NAIA. June 27, 2007. Archived from the original on August 14, 2008. Retrieved December 23, 2017.
- ^ "NAIA and CBS College Sports Network Agree to Broadcast Deal". NAIA. October 14, 2008. Archived from the original on April 8, 2009. Retrieved December 23, 2017.