Reassessing The Allocation Of Acdemic Scholarhsips
Each year, Academic Scholarships will reassess the annual distribution of scholarships with the aim of improving the selection process.
Objective
Annual Examination Of Scholarship Distribution
Academic Scholarships should conduct annual comparative studies of the year-to-year distribution of scholarship funding.
Indicator
Increasing The Number Of Scholarship Applicants
In the past year, too much scholarship money went unawarded. Academic Scholarships will seek ways in increasing the numbers of deserving scholarship applicants.
Criterion
Substantial Increase Scholarship Applications
By use of Scholar X scholarship application software and increased publicity, Academic Scholarships will seek a substantial (at least 15%) rise in the overall number of applications for academic scholarships.
Finding
Negligible Rise in Scholarship Applications
Despite the introduction of Scholar X and increased publicity, Academic Scholarships experienced only a negligible rise in the number of applications.
Action
Refinement and Revision of the Process
Academic Scholarships has already begun a revision of the language and mechanics of Scholar X. An expanded publicity effort will be undertaken in 2007-08 with the expectation of seeing a rise in the number of scholarship applications.