3) Total cost of education initiative. (If I understood the poster correctly, this initiative will allow for providing schools the ability to cover some stipend to help cover out of pocket expenses. Sounds good to me, but I'd love to know the details.)
Schools typically publish a "Total Cost of Attendance" figure for incoming students. This figure includes the usual tuition, room, board and estimates for books, fees, etc..
You can find Syracuse University's estimate
here.
An athletics scholarship typically takes care of tuition, room, board and fees. I'm not sure about books, but would expect those to be provided as well. From SU's estimate, that still leaves supplies, transportation and personal expenses. Using SU as an example, that still leaves about $2,000 that is typically spent by students for their basic needs.
The "Total Cost of Attendance" scholarship proposal is a means whereby scholarship students can be provided with a stipend to address most, or all, of those remaining expenses.
From an ESPN article on the matter:
"The board approved a measure allowing conferences to vote on providing up to $2,000 in spending money, or what the NCAA calls the full cost-of-attendance. "
Some have argued that the amount should be $3,000 or $4,000.
The NCAA has an article on the subject. You can read about it
here.
They use a $3,000 figure for their examples, which show that for a Division 1 football program it would cost an extra $255,000 per year. $39,000 for men's basketball, $45,000 for women's basketball, etc..
A $3,000 stipend would equate to a $300 subsidy to scholarship athletes when they're in school.