Scholarship

1. Describe your work experience with award packaging. Award packaging is when the student’s cost of attendance and needed funds to attend a school are calculated to determine what award they’re eligible for (Pell grant, scholarships, work-study program, or student loans). I am familiar with award packaging from working at Brookhaven College Financial Aid Office, but no work experience. 2. Please describe a difficult customer service situation that you have experienced and what actions you…

Introduction: Can you imagine living in a world where you are not allowed to participate in a sport because of the fact that you were born a “female”? Can you imagine living in a country where you need to disguise yourself as a boy just to be able to play the sport you love? Or even a world where you are allowed to participate in competitions but when you win the tournament then you receive less prize money than the males even though you trained just as hard? This is the challenge that females…

The Decline of Track and Field With soccer, football and basketball becoming so popular, track and field is being left in the dust. When several track and field events are only available to watch on websites such as ESPN3 or NBC Sports Live Extra, it lowers the viewership of the sport. The sport of track and field has been one of the country's oldest sport. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the highlights and stories of the track and field were national and athletes got more…

individual donors to the school and infrastructure (Rocker, John. “Why college athletes should not be paid”, WND.com 2013). Those tangible and intangible assets were put in place over many decades in the form of tiny building blocks by many past scholarship athletes not dissimilar from Manziel.”. Players are oblivious, to all the hard work behind the scenes, all Universities operate their organizations’ as a corporation. So, while the athletes are basking in the sun of victory or the shade of…

"hungry nights where I'm not able to eat, but I still gotta play to my capabilities" (Sherman). Napier also comments on seeing his jersey being sold by saying, "to some credit, you feel like you want something in return" (Thomas). Many may think that scholarships cover all aspects…

Title IX. A mindset of male athletes feeling discriminated against is growing and professionals should address this by discussing the history and necessity of Title IX. Using facts provided by the NCAA should be used to show the reasoning behind scholarship caps and help educate the student athletes further. We should not shy away from Title IX conversations but encourage them with students, staff, and…

that schools should focus on sports, schools and students should focus on sports because academics give a better chance to get a college scholarship, focusing on both can put stress on a student, and focusing on sports send the wrong message or lesson about life. Some people claim that schools that focus on sports get most of their students full athletic scholarships to go to colleges. In the article “High-School Sports Aren 't Killing Academics”, the authors Daniel H. Bowen and Colin Hitt,…

I’ve played competitive sports for a long time. I have seen kids get seriously hurt. I have seen families struggle with the costs of it all. But the biggest struggle I have seen is the pressure, that commonly ends with kids quitting, or continuing without having fun. Whether kids should be allowed to play competitive sports is a complicated debate because there are just so many reasons that could be argued for either side. Because of that, this argument is commonly misguided. The question that…

ruin college sports. College students are financially irresponsible. Most elite College athletes get sports scholarship. Which is payment enough, No fair way to pay College. College athletic programs cannot afford to pay athletes, NCAA is a non-for-profit organization. College athletes should not be paid to complete in college athletics due to the fact that they receive adequate scholarship opportunities that pay for tuition and other living expenses. Paying college athletes would ruin…

Student Athlete Compensation: 4 years a slave Every year, College sports bring in millions and millions of dollars to their respected universities, yet 70% of college athletes struggle financially in life after college. A typical student in college has a job that helps them maintain a steady income,, but this is not the case for student athletes. Student athletes are not receiving any type of income, they are being exploited by their college and the NCAA and universities are making…