April 23rd Update
CoSIDA Members:
The final CoSIDA scholarship and grant application deadlines for 2016-17 scholarships have passed.All applications must be completed through the on-line application process.
APPLICATIONS CLOSED FOR 2016-17 SCHOLARSHIPS:
http://forms.cosida.com/scholarships/default.aspx
Year-by-Year Scholarship Recipients
Questions?
Contact:
Jeff Griesch, University of Nebraska
CoSIDA Scholarship Committee Chair
jgriesch@huskers.com
• CoSIDA Langston Rogers Postgraduate Scholarship ($7,500)
Applications Closed. Deadline was Tuesday, April 26 (11:59 pm. ET). No late applications accepted.
A $7,500 scholarship, given annually to a rising minority or female student working in athletic communications/sports information who is interested in pursuing a career in intercollegiate athletic communication
. 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)
Applications Closed. Deadline was Tuesday, April 26 (11:59 pm. ET). No late applications accepted.
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.
• CoSIDA Member Child Scholarships (2, $1,000 each)
Applications Closed. Deadline was Tuesday, April 12, 2016 (11:59 p.m. ET) No late applications will be accepted.
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 2015-16 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 Member Child 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 (2, $3,000 each)
Applications Closed. Deadline was Tuesday, April 19, 2016 (11:59 p.m. ET) No late applications will be accepted.
Two $3,000 scholarships awarded to outstanding undergraduates working in communications/sports information offices. One scholarship is named for former long-time CoSIDA secretary/digest editor Fred Nuesch and one scholarship is named for former CoSIDA treasurer Dave Wohlhueter. Nuesch, who spent the majority of his career at Texas A&M-Kingsville, and Wohlhueter, who is retired from Cornell, are both CoSIDA Hall of Famers. Two winners from one set of applications will be awarded, so undergraduates only need to fill out one application.
• CoSIDA Phil Langan Graduate Internship Grant ($12,000)
Application Closed: Deadline was Friday, April 22 (11:59 pm Eastern). No late applications will be accepted.
This grant is designed to assist the communications/sports information offices of member institutions with funds to support the addition of a graduate internship. The communications/sports information director at a CoSIDA member institution must complete the on-line application process. One grant in the amount of $12,000 to provide a 10-month appointment to an intern to be designated by the communications/sports information director is awarded annually. The grant is available only to communications/sports information offices without paid graduate or undergraduate interns. Phil Langan was a CoSIDA Hall of Famer who worked at Ithaca, Princeton and Brown. He passed away in November of 2009. He served CoSIDA as secretary-treasurer and Digest editor from 1972 to 1977.