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Dear Colleagues,  

 

Please forward this information to those master's students or other individuals you believe to be talented or interested in earning a Sport Management Ph.D. and securing a graduate assistantship. 

  

The Sport Management program at the Louisiana State University (LSU) is offering a Virtual Open House on October 4th (see Zoom link below).

 

Schedule

10:00am- Welcome and schedule overview

10:10am- Prospective student introductions

10:30am- Meet the faculty/Current PhD student introductions and backgrounds

11:00am- Program Overview - curriculum, sport management career prospects, and more

11:30am- Open discussion

 

We are currently anticipating 2 to 4 new graduate assistantship openings for doctoral students for Fall 2025 with the possibility that some could start in Spring 2025 as well. These Sport Management graduate assistantships carry a competitive monthly stipend of $23,000 over 9 months and a full tuition waiver. Additional financial incentives/bonuses at $16,000 or more are potentially available for applicants with an outstanding GRE or GMAT score, high cumulative GPA, and/or from underserved populations. We encourage your students to ask about these as well!

 

It should also be noted that several past applicants and doctoral students with LSU Sport Management received university-level fellowships prior to admission and/or been offered university-level dissertation fellowships to complete their coursework. Further, we can guarantee other benefits within a start-up package. For instance, we guarantee at least $1,000 annually for travel to conferences and would like to note many students secured up $2,000 annually. Next, Graduate Assistants have their own group dedicated office space in the newly renovated Huey P. Long Field House. Moreover, as part of a potential start-up package they gain access to updated technology (e.g., computers) and software to complete their studies among other potential items.

 

In exchange for these benefits, graduate assistants at LSU will be expected to teach 2 lecture classes each semester within our B.S. program in Sport Administration, giving each graduate of LSU real and ample teaching experience as lead instructor prior to hitting the job market. Lastly, we want to note that all former doctoral graduates of our program were successful in receiving tenure-track appointments as their initial job opportunity with several recently securing jobs in college or schools of business. Furthermore, our past doctoral graduates secured multiple peer-reviewed publications and presentations prior to graduation.   

 

The deadline for a Fall graduate assistantship at LSU is March 15, 2025; however, we are looking to cultivate relationships with prospective applicants immediately not only through our Virtual Open House but also other correspondence potential students may wish to initiate.  

 

To facilitate a positive recruiting experience, students interested in our PhD opportunity and graduate assistantships at LSU are encouraged to contact individual faculty members regarding their research fit as a potential advisor, especially if they cannot make our Virtual Open House. Current faculty potentially accepting students at LSU Sport Management include: Claire Zvosec, Tyreal Qian, Mike Martinez, Brent Oja, John Nauright, Chad Seifried, and Per Svensson. Our faculty at LSU are published in a variety of A-rated academic journals and active presenting at major conferences and serving in editorial or editorial review board roles. Next, each of our faculty also have a good scholarly reputation in their respective subdiscipline fields. Furthermore, we have the ambition to grow our faculty unit and stay innovative from a mentoring perspective. I am personally recruiting potential students to work on a history-based dissertations.

 

Finally, thank you for your time and consideration to forward this information to prospective students and to those students contemplating such an opportunity. If you or any students have any additional questions, I am happy to take those. Also please ask me for a copy of our research flyer to get to know myself and colleagues better. Below my signature is the Zoom meeting information. 

Have a nice day.

 

Sincerely,  

 

Chad

 

Chad Seifried is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: LSU PhD Sport Management Virtual Open House

Time: Oct 4, 2024 10:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://lsu.zoom.us/j/8406882013?omn=99315069605

Meeting ID: 840 688 2013