Sharon Van Boven
- Scholarship Coordinator & Analyst
- Scholarship Management
- College Liaison to Advancement & Financial Aid
- Communication
- Process Improvement
- RECRUITMENT
Address
Old Main, Room 1B-90
Academic & Curricular Affairs, Scholarship Coordinator & Analyst
Responsibilities:
Scholarship Program Management:
- Provides strategic oversight of the A&S Scholarship program with primarily responsibility of scholarships awarded from the A&S Dean’s Office.
- Provides expertise to A&S academic departments to ensure compliance with awarding guidelines.
- Collaborates with Residential Academic Program leadership to manage scholarships.
- Participates as an active member of the A&S recruitment team to plan and implement college scholarship outreach and support to prospective students.
- Supervises the scholarship selection and award process.
- Leads the scholarship committee meetings.
- Serves as the fiscal decision-maker on all scholarship accounts, monitors spending.
- Coordinates the A&S scholarship application and renewal processes.
- Oversees A&S scholarship awards, including communications to students, scholarship applications, award notifications, donor matching, management of student thank-you letters and disbursement of funds.
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- Works with Advancement to steward scholarship donors, set up new scholarship funds, point of contact for A&S scholarships.
- Collaborates with Office of Financial Aid to award scholarship dollars, facilitate use of BAM, resolve issues, point of contact for A&S scholarships.
- Collaborates closely with campus partners including the Office of Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement (ODECE) and the Office of Financial Aid to align programming and efforts at the campus level.
- Serves as point of contact to external constituents (students/parents).
Data Analytics:
- Assess student retention impact of the A&S scholarship program.
- Creates annual financial aid and scholarship reports for A&S leadership.
- Uses predictive analytics and other tools to identify at-risk students and provide targeted A&S scholarship support.