Scholarship Committee Debrief Survey

Over the last year, The Foundation for Enhancing Communities (TFEC), has made several changes to the scholarship committee process to ensure that it is more equitable, objective, streamlined and accessible for students applying and committee members reviewing applications. We realize the implementation of these changes impacts each committee member. We thank you for your patience as we all navigate the changes together.

These changes include switching to Foundant’s Scholarship Lifecycle Management System (SLM), implementing a scoring rubric for all scholarship committees, required annual forms and new team members.

We saw great success with these transitions such as a 273% increase in student applications from the 2022 scholarship year to the 2023 scholarship year. Although we have identified areas in need of improvement and would like to get your feedback as it relates to these changes and the ease of use/helpfulness and ensuring an objective review process. The deadline for survey submission is September 30th.

Name(Required)

First Last

Which committee(s) did you serve on?(Required)

Email(Required)

System Use Questions

Were you able to use the new online system?(Required)

Yes

How would you rate the overall ease of use of the new system?(Required)

How would you rate the new system as it relates to equitable and objective scholarship granting? (i.e., not seeing other comments/scores while in the system)(Required)

Helpful	Somewhat Helpful	Neutral	Not Helpful

Rubric Use Questions

How would you rate use of the scoring rubric as it relates to the committee meeting and funding determinations?(Required)

Not Helpful	Neutral	Somewhat Helpful	Helpful

How would you rate use of the scoring rubric as it relates to equitable and objective scholarship granting? (i.e., not seeing other comments/scores, reviewing and scoring before the meeting and using those scores as a starting point for discussion at the committee meeting)(Required)

Not Helpful	Neutral	Somewhat Helpful	Helpful

Do you feel additional training on using the scoring rubric more efficiently would be helpful?(Required)

Yes

Are there any specific changes that you would like to suggest for the scoring rubric to help with ease of use?

Is there anything additional that you need or could use from the TFEC Team to help with the scholarship award process?

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