Do you know worthy candidates for 2012-13 CoSIDA undergraduate scholarship and postgraduate scholarship monies?
Is there a college/university in need of boosting its media relations/sports information office and in search of funding for a graduate internship position?
If so, please check out the information and deadlines below for the CoSIDA Scholarship Program.
To see the list of past recipients for each scholarship/grant, click HERE.
The Annual CoSIDA Scholarship Program
Note: Scholarship applications and deadline information for candidates of 2012-12 scholarships are listed below. Deadlines are in mid-April and early May of 2012.
Scholarship Background and History
Annually, CoSIDA offers both undergraduate and graduate scholarships to deserving young professionals looking to begin a career in athletic communications, and also offers one annual graduate internship grant to a member institution to help fund a graduate internship position for the next academic year.
The first CoSIDA scholarships were awarded in 1981 - and they were postgraduate scholarships. In 1999, the Scholarship program was expanded to include the undergraduate scholarships - named for CoSIDA Hall of Famers and former long-time CoSIDA secretary/digest editor Fred Nuesch and current treasurer Dave Wohlhueter - and the graduate internship grant.
In December of 2009, the graduate internship was renamed the
Phil Langan Graduate Internship Grant, in honor of the late Langan. At that time CoSIDA had named all but one of its scholarships for outstanding and worthy contributors to the SID profession. That changed in the summer of 2010 when the CoSIDA Board of Directors unanimously voted to rename the CoSIDA Postgraduate Scholarship the
Langston Rogers Postgraduate Scholarship in honor of CoSIDA Hall of Famer and Trailblazer Award winner Langston Rogers, who retired in 2010 after an illustrious career at Ole Miss.
2012-13 Scholarship Applications & Deadlines
• CoSIDA Fred Nuesch-Dave Wohlhueter Undergraduate Scholarships: two $2,500 scholarships awarded to outstanding undergraduates working in media relations/sports information offices. They are named for former long-time CoSIDA secretary/digest editor Fred Nuesch and current treasurer Dave Wohlhueter, both CoSIDA Hall of Famers. Nuesch spent the majoirty of his SID career at Texas A&M-Kingsville, while Wohlhueter is retired from Cornell.
CoSIDA Fred Nuesch-Dave Wohlhueter Undergraduate Scholarships
download application here - PDF
Deadline: Friday, May 4, 2012
• Phil Langan Graduate Internship Grant: is designed to assist member institution sports information offices with funds to support the addition of a graduate internships. There is one award annually, providing $10,000 for a 10-month appointment. This grant is available only to media relations/sports information offices
without paid graduate or undergraduate interns. Langan, a CoSIDA Hall of Famer (working at Ithaca, Princeton and Brown) who passed away in November of 2009, served the organization as secretary-treasurer and Digest editor from 1972-77.
CoSIDA Phil Langan Graduate Internship Grant
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Deadline: Friday, April 6, 2012
The CoSIDA Postgraduate Scholarship Program has two scholarships awarded annually: one $5,000
Wylie Smith Scholarship and one
$5,000 Langston Rogers Scholarship . These are designed to assist outstanding students in sports information offices who have expressed an interest in pursuing a career in collegiate sports information.
• Langston Rogers Postgraduate Scholarship: one $5,000 scholarship annually, given to a rising minority or female student working in athletics communications/sports information who is interestied in pursuing a career in the intercollegiate athletic communications profession.
Formerly the CoSIDA Postgraduate Scholarship.
CoSIDA Langston Rogers Postgraduate Scholarship
download application here - PDF
Deadline: Friday, April 13, 2012
• Wylie Smith Postgraduate Scholarship: one $5,000 scholarship annually, given to an outstanding undergraduate in a media relations/sports information office who has expressed an interest in collegiate athletic communications.
CoSIDA Wylie Smith Postgraduate Scholarship
download application here - PDF
Deadline: Friday, April 13, 2012
Wylie Smith is a former CoSIDA Scholarships Committee chairman and long-time Sports Information Director at Northern Arizona University.
The
Langston Rogers Postgraduate Scholarship was offered for the first time in 2010-11, and
is given to a rising minority or female athletic PR professional. (This scholarship was formerly the CoSIDA Post-Graduate Scholarship).
It was renamed in honor of Rogers, a former CoSIDA President, Hall of Famer, Trailblazer Award and Lifetime Achievement Award recipient who retired from his illustrious athletic communications career in 2010. During the 2010 San Francisco CoSIDA Convention, the CoSIDA Board of Directors announced that this Postgraduate Scholarship would be renamed in Rogers' honor for his outstanding service to athletic communications, his dedication to student-athletes and his mentoring of young professionals.