Beyond Scholarship Displacement: Empowering Students with Choice and Flexibility
Scholarship awards can unexpectedly decrease student financial aid due to displacement. This guide equips professionals with strategies and solutions to empower students and maximize the impact of scholarships.
Student Leave: Why Offering Flexibility Matters - and How to Manage It
Life can get in the way for anyone. Learn how to manage student leave requests while ensuring continued support for your scholarship recipients. Explore best practices for flexible leave policies, tracking systems, and clear communication.
A Donor’s Guide to Creating a Student-Centric Scholarship: Making a Real Difference
Want to create a scholarship that truly helps students? This guide outlines a proven process for designing and launching a scholarship program focused on student needs. Learn how to set goals, involve students, and create a program that empowers future generations.
Level Up Your Scholarship Selection Committee: Fresh Ideas from the Field
Want to make your scholarship selection process even more impactful? Discover innovative tips used by real scholarship providers to boost engagement, make informed decisions, and create a rewarding experience for everyone involved.
Cultivating Commitment: Building a Thriving Volunteer Community for Scholarship Selection
Learn how to build a strong volunteer community to ensure a high-quality scholarship selection process. Engaged volunteers lead to better decisions and a stronger donor base.
Why Scholarship Providers Should Step Up for Students of Color
A recent Supreme Court ruling is limiting race-based scholarships at public universities. This hurts diversity, but opens a powerful door for private scholarship providers to champion equal access for students of color.
Contemporary & Emerging Practices in Scholarship Administration
Want to make changes to improve your scholarship program? New to the industry and ready for a crash course on emerging practices in scholarship administration? Check out Scholarship Sparknotes, a list of our favorite resources across the scholarship lifecycle. You’ll find dozens of example templates and resources you can adapt for your program today.
How Scholarship Providers Can Adapt to the “Better FAFSA”
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) will undergo significant transformations in the upcoming 2024-2025 academic year. We’ll summarize the major changes and explore how providers can evolve alongside this important form. Download our Quick Guide for more tips on updating scholarship applications and selection processes.
Top Tips to Prepare for a Great Scholarship Season
Fall is here, which means scholarship season is fast approaching! Do you have everything in place for a great scholarship season? At Students First Consulting, we want to take the stress out of scholarship administration, and ensure a smooth, student-focused process. Here are our top tips to prepare for a great–and impactful–scholarship season!
Happy National Scholarship Month!
We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to achieve their higher education goals, regardless of their circumstances, and scholarships help to make that happen. National Scholarship Month is a time to celebrate the impact that scholarships have on students and communities. Read for more about the impact of scholarships and how you can celebrate!
Student-Centric Scholarship Program Development Toolkit
Work with Development Officers and donors to create opportunities that are truly student-centered with this handy guide. It’s full of examples and templates to use as you, your colleagues, and your donors plan for high-impact awards.
Defining Your Scholarship Program Strategy
Build a cohesive, sustainable, and meaningful program that impacts students, makes donors and executives happy, and leaves you feeling empowered. Use our workbook to create a streamlined, mission-focused scholarship program that builds opportunities for student and alumni involvement and feedback.
How to Make Scholarship Applications Easier for Students
Scholarship applications are important, but they can also be a pain. They can be long, complicated, and time-consuming. This can discourage students from applying, especially those who are already struggling with other commitments. Scholarship providers can make their applications more accessible by following the tips in this blog.
AI Guide for Scholarship Providers
Are you ready to harness the power of AI to transform your scholarship program? This guide is intended to help scholarship providers better understand and use artificial intelligence (AI) in their administration of scholarship programs and work with students.
Celebrating One Year of Students First Consulting: Top 5 Lessons Learned
We are thrilled that Students First Consulting has just celebrated its one-year anniversary! It has been an incredible year of growth and success, and we are so grateful to our clients, partners, friends in the scholarship industry, and team for their support. As we celebrate, we want to reflect on and share five valuable lessons we've learned this past year.
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