Annual CoSIDA Scholarship Program
The CoSIDA Scholarship applications and deadline information for 2015-16 scholarships are listed below. The remaining scholarships open are the two postgraduate scholarships, and the application deadline is Friday, May 22.
APPLY ONLINE: http://forms.cosida.com/scholarships/default.aspx
Find Year-by-Year Scholarship Recipients HERE
• CoSIDA Langston Rogers Postgraduate Scholarship ($7,500)
Application deadline: May 22, 2015 No applications will be accepted or reviewed if dated past May 22, 2015.
A $7,500 scholarship, given annually 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
. The Langston Rogers Postgraduate Scholarship
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.
• CoSIDA Wylie Smith Postgraduate Scholarship ($7,500)
Application deadline: May 22, 2015 No applications will be accepted or reviewed if dated past May 22, 2015
A $7,500 annual scholarship given to an outstanding undergraduate in a media relations/sports information office who has expressed an interest in collegiate athletic communications. Wylie Smith is a former CoSIDA Scholarships Committee chairman and long-time Sports Information Director at Northern Arizona University.
APPLICATIONS CLOSED:
• CoSIDA Phil Langan Graduate Internship Grant ($12,000)
Applications CLOSED: (Deadline was April 24, 2015) No applications will be accepted or reviewed if dated past April 24, 2015.
Grant will assist member institution sports information offices with funds to support the addition of a graduate internships. There is one award annually, providing $12,500 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 Member Child Scholarships (two, $1,000 each)
Application deadline: May 1, 2015 No applications will be accepted or reviewed if dated past May 1, 2015.
Two $1,000 scholarships designed to assist an outstanding
undergraduate student – the child of a CoSIDA member – who requires financial assistance with college scholarship funds for his/her education. There will be two $1,000 undergraduate scholarships awarded for the 2014-15 school year with a limit of ONE CoSIDA scholarship per family per academic year.
The candidates must meet the scholarship criteria and be the son or daughter of a current, dedicated sports information professional who has been a member of CoSIDA for a minimum 10 years. CoSIDA Family Member Scholarships will be renewable (on a competitive basis) for up to four (4) academic years. However, award winners must continue to meet basic qualifications and re-apply each year.
• CoSIDA Fred Nuesch-Dave Wohlhueter Undergraduate Scholarships (two, $3,000 each)
Application deadline: May 8, 2015 No applications will be accepted or reviewed if dated past May 8, 2015.
Two $3,000 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 former CoSIDA treasurer Dave Wohlhueter, both CoSIDA Hall of Famers. Nuesch spent the majority of his SID career at Texas A&M-Kingsville, while Wohlhueter is retired from Cornell.
Questions?
Contact Scholarship Committee Chair
Carol Hudson at Old Dominion University via
chudson@odu.edu
Application Process
APPLY ONLINE: http://forms.cosida.com/scholarships/default.aspx
• Review the Scholarship Application text here for all scholarship but the new Member Child Scholarship (but apply online): PDF
• Review the CoSIDA Member Child Scholarship Application text here (but apply online): PDF