STARS Webinars
How to Help Students Find More Funding Options – Feb. 22nd
This informative webinar will demonstrate how using the right scholarship management tools can help you guide students to the right funding options to increase their chances of being successfully matched with a scholarship or donor. Without guidance Students will simply apply for every scholarship they can find without discretion. With the advent of scholarship management software, this problem is amplified by poor matching logic and mass submission options found in inferior software solutions. With years of experience and hundreds of customers the Stars Online development team has learned how to code scholarship matching logic that ensures that students are given access to the best opportunities and administrators are not overloaded with thousands of unqualified applications. In this webinar attendees will learn how to help students succeed by creating a scholarship matching process that offers students more qualified funding opportunities and eliminates unqualified applications that waste time and serve no one.
How To Make Reviewing Scholarships Easier for Everyone – Feb. 24th
This Session will discuss how to reduce the burden of reviewing scholarship applications on Review Committee Members. Scholarship Review Committee Members serve a critical role in assessing students for scholarships and deciding their qualifications for scholarship funding. With the wrong review process this can be a daunting task. Imagine reviewing thousands of paper applications over several weeks. How can anyone remember applicant number one versus applicant number 5000? How much time and energy is spent reviewing applications from students that shouldn’t have applied for a scholarship because they just don’t qualify? Review Committee members have volunteered their valuable time to help students get the funding they need to achieve their dreams. Make their time count and respect their time investment by giving them the tools they need to be fair to each applicant and complete their work in a timely and organized manner. This informative webinar will discuss innovations in technology that help you maximize the time your dedicated review committee members have volunteered. Give your review committee the tools they need to do their job well, and you will be giving your students a fair shot at the funding they deserve.
Five Most Common Mistakes Made in Scholarship Management – Feb. 28th
This webinar will discuss the five most common mistakes made by Scholarship Managers and Foundation Directors that manage scholarships. The process of accepting and awarding scholarships seems to have changed very little over the years because the process is serial and only consumes significant time and resources at the end of the cycle during the reviewing and awarding process. A common misconception is that the awarding and review process is the greatest inefficiency in the scholarship management cycle. This is simply not true. If we tallied up the time taken by each student to fill out a paper application while looking through a catalog of scholarships and added it to the time students have wasted applying for scholarships they do not qualify for, then multiply that figure by the number of review committee members that have to review paper applications, we would arrive at a very large number. Other inefficiencies are found by trying to build a scholarship system in house, or purchase an extremely low cost solution that just doesn’t work. The waste of human capital, or the time and effort put into these inefficiencies can all be avoided. This session will discuss how Scholarship Managers and Foundation Directors can reduce costs, eliminate frustrations and streamline the scholarship management process by following some simple guidelines. This is one off our best Webinars in the series and I would urge anyone in the business of helping students to find scholarship funding to attend. Learn how to avoid the five most common mistakes made by scholarship managers and make everyone’s life a lot easier.
How to Help Students Find More Funding Options – Mar. 1st
This informative webinar will demonstrate how using the right scholarship management tools can help you guide students to the right funding options to increase their chances of being successfully matched with a scholarship or donor. Without guidance Students will simply apply for every scholarship they can find without discretion. With the advent of scholarship management software, this problem is amplified by poor matching logic and mass submission options found in inferior software solutions. With years of experience and hundreds of customers the Stars Online development team has learned how to code scholarship matching logic that ensures that students are given access to the best opportunities and administrators are not overloaded with thousands of unqualified applications. In this webinar attendees will learn how to help students succeed by creating a scholarship matching process that offers students more qualified funding opportunities and eliminates unqualified applications that waste time and serve no one.