Case Study: Sandhills Community College improves scholarship management efficiency with AcademicWorks

Sandhills Community College - Customer Case Study

Sandhills Community College in Pinehurst, North Carolina needed a better way to manage its growing scholarship program after a simple online application tool built by its IT team became too limited and manual for administrators. The college, which oversees 230 scholarship funds, turned to AcademicWorks to streamline applications, committee reviews, and scholarship communications.

With AcademicWorks, Sandhills Community College centralized scholarship qualifications, reduced reliance on IT, and eliminated paper award letters by notifying students by email. The result was much greater efficiency: committee meetings dropped from 9 per year to 2, application quality and volume increased, and staff could prevent over-awarding by viewing all current scholarship offers in one system.

Sandhills Community College

Jonathan Garrison

Scholarship Coordinator