College Bowl 2024
Registration
2024 Q&A Panel
Click HERE to join the Q&A Panel on March 12, 2024 at 5PM PST.
Meeting ID: 874 7872 5124
Passcode: 741233
Eligibility
Graduate and undergraduate students who are currently enrolled in healthcare programs that are part of the ACHE/ACHE SoCal Higher Education Network are eligible.
- Executive graduate programs are not eligible to participate in the competition.
Judging
Teams will be judged on their analysis of the case, their responsiveness to the prompt, the executive summary, and their presentation skills. Judges will focus on the viability of the strategies and the flow of the presentation. This includes content, organization, and demonstration of logical thinking. In addition, the team must be able to answer questions in a prompt, concise, and accurate manner. Executive summaries will be evaluated on their utility as stand-alone documents that reflect the analyses and resulting recommendations for the organization.
The judging panels will be composed of high-level executives from diverse backgrounds. They are selected by the College Bowl Committee and remain anonymous until the day of the competition.
Rules
- Work must be done by team members only, with minimal assistance from faculty advisors.
- Team members may use only reference materials available to the general public.
- Team members cannot contact the site or engage employees or partners of the sponsoring organizations, or organizations identified in the materials.
- Each school must be a member of the ACHE Higher Education Network in order to participate in the College Bowl. For information about the ACHE Higher Education Network and instructions on how to join visit: https://www.ache.org/membership/communities-forums-and-networks/higher-education-network
Team composition
- 4 members per team preferred
- Each team must include at least one first-year student (for graduate programs)
- Previous college bowl participants are allowed to compete
- Teams must register by Monday, March 20th by 5:00 pm PST. For more information about the 2023 College Bowl or if you have any questions please email Erika Soqui at: erika.soqui@hce-socal.org.
College Bowl 2021 Final Presentations
2018 ACHE Western Region College Bowl
The third annual Western Region College Bowl was held at The California Endowment in Los Angeles on April 9, 2018. With a total of 11 teams competing from California, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and Washington, graduate students from the colleges below impressed the judges with presentations on Montefiore Hudson Valley Collaborative:
Undergrad students from the following schools competed in a fast paced, jeopardy style competition:
- CSU Chico
- CSU Northridge
- CSU Long Beach
- UNLV
The 2018 Western Region College Bowl was generously sponsored by COPE Health Solutions.
2016 ACHE Western Region College Bowl
The first-ever Western Region College Bowl was held on Friday, April 8, 2016 at the California Endowment. The eleven graduate teams below studied and presented on Chesapeake Regional Healthcare.
The 2016 College Bowl was generously sponsored by Vizient.
2015 Statewide College Bowl
For the first time ever, the three ACHE California chapters – Health Care Executives of Southern California (HCE SoCal), California Association of Healthcare Leaders (CAHL), and San Diego Organization of Healthcare Leaders (SOHL) – jointly presented this first Statewide College Bowl. The event was held on Friday, April 17, 2015 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, CA. This year’s competition featured the Daughters of Charity Health System as the case study. Below are the different presentations from the competing teams, including one by the luncheon speaker Phil Dalton, Senior VP at MDS Consulting, the generous sponsor of this year’s College Bowl.