Scholarship Processing System

Details

Project Status

 On Target

Last Reported

December 5, 2025

Estimated Start Date

May 9, 2024

Project Manager

Dawn Childs

Project Sponsor

Shelli Soto
Mandy Hanousek

Description

The project will source and implement a Scholarship Processing system. This system will be a fully integrated solution to meet donor management and scholarship processing functionality for campus departments and colleges, students, Financial Aid, and The WWU Foundation.

The new system will result in improved access to scholarships for students utilizing smart applications and workflow, more transparent communication of timelines and document submissions, better fund utilization, internal processing efficiencies, more opportunity for donor/recipient interaction and enhance our stewardship efforts. The installation will include setup and implementation of all hardware and software required for system operation, any data conversion needed, and training in the system's use.

Status Summary

Weekly project meetings have continued.  

The fall scholarship application has closed to student submittal and committees have begun candidate review.  The Scholarship Center is running matching and will send notification to review to committee administrators.

An additional benefit of Scholarship Manager is the ease of tracking renewable awards.  The project team is validating the renewable scholarship awards.  

The technical teams are testing the integration of award data back to the Banner financial aid tables.