Commitment to Career Development
Internships and Post-Graduate Opportunities
Walter Byers Postgraduate Scholarship Program
In 1988, the National Collegiate Athletic
Association established the Walter Byers Postgraduate Scholarship
Program as a means of recognizing the contributions of the former
executive director through encouraging excellence in academic performance
by student-athletes. Under this program, one male and one female
student-athlete are annually awarded a postgraduate scholarship
in recognition of outstanding academic achievement and potential
for success in postgraduate study. It is intended that an individual
named a Byers Scholar will be recognized as one who has combined
the best elements of mind and body to achieve national distinction
for his or her achievements, and promises to be a future leader
in his or her chosen field of career service.
The Walter Byers Postgraduate Scholarship
Program is separate and distinct from the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship
Program, which provides numerous annual awards with smaller stipends.
The stipend for each Byers Scholarship is $21,500 for an academic
year. The scholarship amount will be reviewed every two years so
that the purchasing power of the award will remain reasonably close
to the award as initially conceived in 1988. If the graduate school
where the Byers Scholar is enrolled provides evidence of satisfactory
performance and progress, the grant may be renewed for a second
year. Therefore, in any single year, $86,000 worth of scholarships
are awarded ($43,000 to the current year's recipients and $43,000
to the previous year's awardees for their second year of graduate
school).
Ethnic Minority and Women's Enhancement Postgraduate Scholarship
Programs
The goal of the enhancement program is
to increase the pool of and opportunities for qualified minority
and female candidates in intercollegiate athletics through postgraduate
scholarships at the NCAA national office.
Sixteen scholarships to ethnic minorities
and 16 scholarships to women are available annually to college graduates
who will be entering into the first year of their initial postgraduate
studies.
NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Program
The NCAA awards up to 174 postgraduate
scholarships annually, 87 for men and 87 for women. The scholarships
are awarded to student-athletes who excel academically and athletically
and who are in their last year of intercollegiate athletics competition.
The one-time grants of $7,500 each are
awarded for fall sports, winter sports and spring sports. Each sports
season (fall, winter and spring), there are 29 scholarships available
for men and 29 scholarships available for women. The scholarships
are one-time, nonrenewable grants.
Division I Degree-Completion Award Program
The NCAA established this program to assist
student-athletes who have exhausted their eligibility for institutional
financial aid (in five years). Applicants must have completed eligibility
for athletics-related aid at a Division I member institution before
applying and must be within 30 semester hours of their degree requirements.
Full-time students receive grants equal
to a full athletics grant at the institution; part-time students
receive tuition and an allowance for books.
Ethnic Minority and Women's Internship Program
The NCAA offers one-year internships at
its national office in Indianapolis, Indiana, providing on-the-job
learning experiences for ethnic minority and female college graduates
who express an interest in pursuing a career in the administration
of intercollegiate athletics. These are paid, 12 month positions.
The areas of the NCAA that offer intern
positions are administrative services; branding, broadcasting and
communications; championships; education services; enforcement services;
governance; membership services; and men's and women's basketball.
Applicants are able to request the top three areas of interest in
which they prefer to work.
Internship Opportunities Across the Nation
The Center
for Career Opportunities can assist you during the internship
process. The CCO staff can help you search for internships in your
chosen area of study and assist in the internship interviewing process.
Appointments can be made by contacting 494-3981.
For athletics related internships and post-graduate opportunities, please contact Nicole McKinney at nicolerm@purdue.edu or 494-4996.
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