Case Study: Maricopa Community Colleges increases scholarship access and applications with AcademicWorks

Maricopa Community Colleges - Customer Case Study

Maricopa Community Colleges, the Maricopa Community College District in Tempe, Arizona, faced a challenge with scholarship management across its ten separately accredited campuses: each campus used a different application process, from homegrown systems to paper forms, which made it difficult for students to apply and led to low application rates. The district turned to AcademicWorks to create a more accessible, unified scholarship experience.

AcademicWorks implemented a single district-wide platform that let students log in with campus credentials, submit one application for multiple scholarships, and be automatically matched to eligible opportunities. The result was greater accessibility, a larger and more diverse applicant pool, and faster scholarship review and awarding; Maricopa Community Colleges reported 26% more applications than the same point the previous year.

Maricopa Community Colleges

Lauren Shellenbarger

Vice President of Systems and Processes