The NCAA Research Committee is pleased to announce the 2012 NCAA Graduate Student Research Grant Program. The program’s goals are:
- to stimulate research on college athletics;
- to foster contributions to the empirical research on college athletics;
- to provide financial support to graduate students interested in engaging in high-quality research related to college athletics, and
- to assist NCAA-member colleges and universities and the general public in gaining access to new and outstanding research and researchers in this field.
Research grants are available for graduate students only and are intended to support the student while conducting research to be used for a doctoral dissertation, master’s thesis, or external publication. Awards for these research grants are set at a maximum of $7,500 for one-year projects.
Research topics may include but are not limited to:
- the impact of participation in intercollegiate athletics on the academic or social experiences of the student-athletes
- best practices for academic advisement of student-athletes
- the relationship between athletic time demands and academic success
- student-athlete integration into the campus community
- finances of intercollegiate athletics
- student-athlete satisfaction with the college experience
- diversity and inclusion issues in intercollegiate athletics
- analytic philosophical/historical accounts of intercollegiate athletics
- and student-athlete health and safety issues.
The deadline to submit an application is April 15, 2012.
Full details on the applications procedure are found online. Contact Tiese Roxbury, 317/917-6811 or troxbury@ncaa.org, if you have questions regarding the application or submission process.