Nominations are being accepted for the One Percent for Saints Success Challenge. Submit your nomination via the nomination link by April 14, 2023 (only complete nominations will be considered). First place will receive a total monetary award of $5,000, second place $2,500, and third place $1,000. In addition to the monetary award, the first-place winner(s) may receive some budget to support the individual or a select number of the team to attend a conference to present their initiative. Send any of your questions to SaintsSuccess@ollusa.edu.

What is the Saints Success Challenge?
Paralleling OLLU’s three university priorities, the One Percent for Saints Success Challenge will recognize those small or large initiatives that have been implemented that go above and beyond to challenge, improve, enhance, or elevate OLLU’s systems for how we matriculate, retain and persist, and graduate our students.

Who is eligible?
Staff, faculty, programs, departments, schools, campuses, multi-program/faculty/staff collaboratives who have conceived and implemented initiatives with a promise and focus on Saints Success are eligible for this prize. Anyone can nominate, and self-nominations are acceptable. No member of President’s Council (PC) is eligible.

Initiatives should be those already in place.

How to nominate?
Fully complete and submit the nomination criteria by April 14, 2023.

Selection
Comprised of off-campus non-OLLU individuals, the selection committee will objectively review all nominations and make first, second, and third place selections based on a rubric grounded in the nomination criteria. First place will receive a total monetary award of $5,000, second place $2,500, and third place $1,000. Note, in addition to the monetary award, the first-place winner(s) may receive some budget to support the individual or a select number of the team to attend a conference to present their initiative.

NOMINATE
The 2022-2023 One Percent for Saints Success Challenge is now open. Submit your nominations by April 14, 2023.

HOW TO NOMINATE
Submit your nomination via the nomination link by April 14, 2023. A complete nomination must include each of the following. Only complete nominations will be considered.

1. Introduction. Describe the one percent initiative that is enhancing Saint Success. Which department(s) and/or process(es) have been positively affected? Who is the one percent ‘team’? [up to 250 words]

2. Impact. Use any qualitative, quantitative or longitudinal data to speak to the impact the initiative has been having on student matriculation, student retention and persistence, and/or student graduation rates. In other words, how much has student matriculation increased because of the initiative? Or, how much has student retention increased as a result of the initiative? Or, how much have student graduation rates increased because of the initiative? [up to 250 words]

3. Scaling. Could this one percent initiative be replicated or scaled to other parts of campus? What impact could replicating or scaling have on Saints Success? [up to 250 words]

4. Sustainability. What will be required to sustain this effort? [up to 250 words]

Submit your nomination online.

Submit any of your questions to SaintsSuccess@ollusa.edu.