SaraCryan ✭

Hello Everyone! I'm Sara Cryan and I am a Scholarship Officer at Greater Toledo Community Foundation (Toledo, Ohio). I'm looking forward to discussions around using best practices and how everyone using SLM to be more efficient.

I am the Scholarship Officer a Community Foundation and we have two scholarship funds for the same organization, one is for employees and the other is for dependents of the employees. We award anywhere from 30 - 50 scholarships totaling $60,000 - $100,000 to international students as this organization has locations…

@ConnieLeeper co-op (short for cooperative education program) is similar to an internship but co-ops are almost always a full-time paid position and students are not just limited to doing one just during the summer semester. Most of our engineering and construction management students must complete 2-3 of them as a college…

I am happy that you have had success with the videos. This is something that I want to get our committees on board with because even scheduling my committees meetings alone is a lot of work. So this would be a great alternative and if it more convenient for both the applicants and my committees, it sounds like a win win.…

I like the idea of them submitted videos over conducting video/phone interviews. Before all of this we had done select phone interviews to students who either had conflicts with the meeting date or were out of town. But this was much easier because we would have the entire committee in the same room so only the applicants…

We have actually started requiring students to submit both their class schedule and statement of account. Below is the language we use on our online Follow Up Forms: Class Schedule Question: Upload a copy of your class schedule (e.g. screenshot of class calendar, class list, etc.) to verify you enrollment status for the…