“We want to make sure the applicants know exactly what they’re getting into and they’re fully prepared and excited about it,” Brickhouse adds.
Palmer says the timing was perfect for her, as she’d already been accepted into the year-long NCAA Leadership Institute for Ethnic Minority Males and Females. Although Rutgers was helping with some of the cost, she knew there would be additional expenses. The Big East grant of $1,500 helped cover the cost of five round-trip flights from Newark, N.J., to the leadership institute in Indianapolis as well as hotel costs.
“I’m big on professional development,” says Palmer, who had previously applied for grants to attend other seminars. “I thought the Big East process was fine. It worked well for me, because I was already in the Leadership Institute and I knew exactly what it was I wanted to do.”
This year’s recipients come from the University of Connecticut, DePaul University, the University of Louisville, South Florida University and Villanova University. Among the seminars, programs, conferences and workshops they will be attending are the International Conference on Eating Disorders of the Academy for Eating Disorders and the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators/HERS Institute for Administrative Advancement.
--Lois Elfman
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