Sharon Van Boven

Academic & Curricular Affairs, Scholarship Coordinator & Analyst 

Responsibilities: 

Scholarship Program Management:

• Provides strategic oversight of the A&S Scholarship program with primarily responsibility of scholarships awarded from the A&S Dean’s Office.
• Provides expertise to A&S academic departments to ensure compliance with awarding guidelines.
• Collaborates with Residential Academic Program leadership to manage scholarships.
• Participates as an active member of the A&S recruitment team to plan and implement college scholarship outreach and support to prospective students.
• Supervises the scholarship selection and award process.
• Leads the scholarship committee meetings.
• Serves as the fiscal decision-maker on all scholarship accounts, monitors spending.
• Coordinates the A&S scholarship application and renewal processes.
• Oversees A&S scholarship awards, including communications to students, scholarship applications, award notifications, donor matching, management of student thank-you letters and disbursement of funds.

​Liaison:

• Works with Advancement to steward scholarship donors, set up new scholarship funds, point of contact for A&S scholarships.
• Collaborates with Office of Financial Aid to award scholarship dollars, facilitate use of BAM, resolve issues, point of contact for A&S scholarships.
• Collaborates closely with campus partners including the Office of Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement (ODECE) and the Office of Financial Aid to align programming and efforts at the campus level.
• Serves as point of contact to external constituents (students/parents).

Data Analytics:

• Assess student retention impact of the A&S scholarship program.
• Creates annual financial aid and scholarship reports for A&S leadership.
• Uses predictive analytics and other tools to identify at-risk students and provide targeted A&S scholarship support.