NCAS member institutions are asked to commit to being active in the Degree Completion and Community Service Programs. If an NCAS member's former student-athlete wants to attend an NCAS school in another geographic location, member schools agree to help those former student-athletes transfer credits.

Similarly, NCAS members will aid in facilitating the receipt of transfer credits of student-athletes from other NCAS schools. NCAS members are not obliged to pay the cost of their students who attend other member schools. Likewise, they are not obliged to pay for former student-athletes from other NCAS schools to come to their institution.

However, members do agree to attempt to reduce or eliminate barriers that exist between athletes and degree completion or other educational goals. Assistance should include academic advisement, academic advocacy, and, when necessary, negotiating on behalf of student-athletes with their former colleges and universities.

Furthermore, assistance should become consistent with institutional policies, in the form of the assurance of affordability of higher education for student-athletes via loans, work-study programs, grants and other forms of financial assistance that are available to all students.

The DCP allows former student-athletes to complete their education in exchange for community service.

The NCAS has now helped 21,798 student-athletes return to school to complete their degrees.

In turn, they have worked with more than 9.4 million children in the NCAS Community Service and Outreach program.

This has translated to 9.5 million hours of service.

So far, 8,625 student-athletes have graduated through the DCP since its inception.

In addition, 8,911 professional athletes have participated in the DCP.

NCAS schools have donated $150 million in tuition fees for student-athletes to complete their degrees since 1985.

Student-athletes who entered the member institution on an athletic scholarship in a revenue and a non revenue producing sport in the 10 years prior to the institution joining the NCAS are eligible to be readmitted, if academically eligible.

Tuition is provided by the institution in the same proportion as it was during the student�s last year of eligibility. Student-athletes are able to continue their education as long as they are making progress toward their degree.

In exchange for their tuition, returning former student-athletes participate in the school's community service and outreach program, where they meet with school-age youth to talk about a variety of critical issues for a minimum of ten hours per week.