21st Century Scholar Success Initiative Partner Resources

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We’ve designed the 21st Century Scholars Success Initiative to help more and more area students realize the promise of a college education. In fact, we’re kind of obsessed with it. We’re grateful to all of the incredible school, higher education, and youth-serving organizational partners who are helping Scholars achieve their dreams. That’s why we’ve curated a list of resources designed to help you share the story of 21st Century Scholars and to support existing Scholars. If there’s something you can’t find here, you can track down all of the state’s information at Learn More Indiana.

Flyers for Students & Families

21st Century Scholar FAQs

The most common questions high schoolers have about the 21st Century Scholars program, answered.
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ScholarTrack Guide

Learn how to create, access, and log in to your ScholarTrack account for the first time.
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Scholar Pledge and 12-Step Requirements

Learn about the Scholar Pledge and how and when to complete the 12 required steps to attain your 21st Century Scholarship.
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Financial Means Testing Worksheets

Does your family meet financial requirements to receive the 21st Century Scholarship in college? View the current worksheets for the graduating classes of 2024, 2025, and 2026.
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Communication Tools

We’re all working together on the 21st Century Scholars program, and we want our organization-specific communications to be as consistent as possible, with the same look, feel, and messaging. These resources are designed to help.

VIDEOS:

Learn about our 21st Century Fellowship (YouTube)
Meet 21st Century Scholar Fellow Reagan Ayala (YouTube) Reagan is a John Adams High School graduate and currently a student at IU South Bend
Meet 21st Century Scholar Fellow Julian Garcilazo (You Tube) Julian is a St. Joseph High School graduate and currently a student at Holy Cross College; this video is especially good for parents

LOGOS AND STYLE GUIDE

St. Joseph County-specific logo in .jpg and .gif formats. Use this logo whenever possible in your 21st Century Scholar communications in print or digital formats.
St. Joseph County-specific email banner, in .jpg format. This is a great common factor for all the diverse emails our organizations send. You can add your organization’s specific contact information in the footer, or directly below the banner.
This QR code leads directly to the Enrollment page and can be dropped into any print communication.
This .png color bar incorporates the 21st Century Scholars/Learn More Indiana palette and can be used as a digital art element as directed in the Style Guide (below).
Created by the Indiana Commission on Higher Education, this Style Guide for its 21st Century Scholar materials includes PMS colors, typeface direction, and more. This is useful for partner organizations who have access to professional designers and want to create additional materials to promote 21st Century Scholars in St. Joseph County.

COMMUNICATIONS PLAN ITEMS

One-page Highlights of the VOX Communication Plan, emphasizing the primary recommendations and umbrella messaging
The full VOX Communication Plan (20 pages), which includes full details of the background research that created the Plan as well as more granular messaging and action items
The 21st Century Scholar Success Initiative communications calendar, created by VOX. This Excel file is designed to be a “living document” that your organization can modify to fit your needs. It covers a calendar year and includes suggestions for specific outreach throughout that time frame, color-coded to reflect responsibilities. We will review the calendar annually to try and make it as useful as possible. Here’s a .pdf copy for anyone who doesn’t have access to Excel.

COMMUNICATIONS TEMPLATES, FLYERS

This flyer has tips for local businesses to promote the 21st Century Scholars program. The second side is basic info about the program, designed to be shared with employees and/or customers.

Historic Dashboards

Dashboards showing school-level registration and completion data for St. Joseph County is available below. (As of January 2023, we’ve incorporated a new design of our data to better communicate trends across cohorts.)

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