{"id":76811,"date":"2022-03-01T13:08:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T18:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=76811"},"modified":"2024-08-29T16:42:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T20:42:14","slug":"new-bursary-launched-for-black-and-indigenous-brock-student-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/03\/new-bursary-launched-for-black-and-indigenous-brock-student-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"New bursary launched for Black and Indigenous Brock student-athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University is introducing a new bursary award to provide additional financial support to student-athletes who self-identify as either Black or Indigenous.<\/p>\n<p>The Black or Indigenous Heritage Student-Athlete (BIHS) bursary aims to support student-athletes who demonstrate financial need and is not centred around athletic achievement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are excited to introduce this bursary to help students who identify as Black or Indigenous achieve their post-secondary goals,&#8221; said Interim President and Vice-Chancellor Lynn Wells. &#8220;These student-athletes have chosen Brock University for their post-secondary education, so we are pleased to do our part to help them succeed and achieve their dreams.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The current amount of the BIHS bursary will allow for 25 awards of up to $2,000.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Ontario University Athletics (OUA) published an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/oua.ca\/documents\/2021\/10\/25\/OUA_Anti_Racism_Report.pdf\">Anti-Racism Report<\/a> that detailed the uneven playing field between white and racialized athletes: white athletes were less likely to experience unmet financial needs than racialized athletes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The newly-established bursary award is an important first step for university sport in addressing the systemic barriers for our Black and Indigenous student-athletes,&#8221; said Melissa Krist, Director, Brock Sports. &#8220;We want to create a culture of Badger pride that shows our commitment to student-athletes&#8217; academic and athletic success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The award is available to student-athletes who appear on eligibility certificates of an OUA-sanctioned sport at Brock.<\/p>\n<p>Returning student-athletes must have achieved a minimum 65 per cent average during the prior academic year. New entering student-athletes require a minimum 80 per cent admission average or have achieved 65 per cent minimum average during the Winter or Spring Term of their initial year.<\/p>\n<p>The registration deadline is Friday, March 25, at 4:30 p.m. and eligible student-athletes <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/Pages\/ResponsePage.aspx?id=FRGudvwe8kqlNuKyRDrxoKlIrSfRJhVLlkAEXSS_C-pUOTZDTEpFUDRLNUxCWlU5MjY1RkpQNzJMVC4u\">can fill out the application form online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University is introducing a new bursary award to provide additional financial support to student-athletes who self-identify as either Black or Indigenous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":35319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7484,3319,4052,6833,1,58],"tags":[11256,256,4437,11257,8809,10286,7584],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76813,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76811\/revisions\/76813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}