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The NCAA News -- February 1, 1999

Postgraduate Scholarship Committee seeks district selection chairs

The NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Committee is looking for individuals to serve as district selection committee chairs in geographical districts 1, 3 and 5. One of the new chairs must be from Division I and two of the chairs must be from Division II.

The district selection committee chairs -- who will oversee the process of screening postgraduate scholarship nominees from each NCAA geographical district -- will be appointed by the Postgraduate Scholarship Committee for a two-year term and can serve as many as three terms in the position.

The appointment process is changed from the old governance structure, in which an NCAA Council member in each NCAAgeographical district served as chair of the district committee. The Postgraduate Scholarship Committee emphasizes the identification and solicitation of nominees who previously have participated on NCAA postgraduate scholarship district selection committees.

District selection committee chairs are responsible for the following:

  • Identification of individuals to serve on the district selection committee. (Each of the eight district committees consists of an athletics director, faculty athletics representative, an individual familiar with postgraduate programs, an individual from each NCAA division, and at least one woman. No more than one representative from a member conference or from an institution may serve on a district selection committee.)

  • Arrange in-person meetings or telephone conferences for district committees three times annually (for football in November, basketball in March, and other sports in May). Each committee will establish its own method for selecting a district's scholarship finalists.

  • Duplicate or provide to district committee members materials to facilitate the review of nominations.

  • Participate in the district committee's screening of nominees.

  • Keep nominating institutions informed of the status of their nominations following the district committee's review.

    Interested individuals should contact Julie M. Quickel, NCAA committee coordinator and staff liaison to the Postgraduate Scholarship Committee, at 913/339-1906, by February 26, 1999.