Case Study: California Lutheran University achieves streamlined scholarship management with AcademicWorks

California Lutheran University - Customer Case Study

California Lutheran University, based in Thousand Oaks, California, managed two very different scholarship cycles each year and relied on separate, manual processes for fall and spring awards. The fall cycle used a campus reporting tool and a separate donor acknowledgment workflow, while the spring cycle used a different scholarship system that created stability and browser issues for administrators and students.

AcademicWorks provided a single scholarship management solution for both cycles, allowing the university to import student data, match eligible students to endowed funds, collect applications online, and send awards and donor acknowledgments through one system. The result was a more streamlined, efficient process with significant time savings and improved donor stewardship; the university received over 100 donor acknowledgments in the first few days after moving online.

California Lutheran University

Carol Lingrosso

Financial Aid Counselor