Welcome Community Members!
The community's involvement is vital for the success of Wisconsin's youth. Please help us guide hundreds of students to dream big and reach for higher education with the support of our Blugold Beginnings Program.
Learn more about the beneficial services available through the Blugold Beginnings Program including mentors, UW-Eau Claire campus events and summer camps!
Make a Contribution!
Contributions of all shapes and sizes are always welcome. For more information, please visit: http://www.uwec.edu/fndn/BGBeginnings.htm
The Blugold Beginnings Program is a great way to unite and strengthen the relationships between UW-Eau Claire community and the Eau Claire and surrounding communities. All communities involved can learn and benefit from each other.
Who Benefits from this program?
K-12 Students
Elementary through high school students benefit by having Mentors support them academically and personally while promoting higher education.
UW-Eau Claire Students
UW-Eau Claire student Mentors benefit through gaining practical experience working with community youth and completing their university service learning requirement. Middle and High School Mentors are paid positions.
The Community
The community benefits through having its youth educated to believe that higher education is important and possible for them. This belief and pursuit of higher education opens doors for the children of our community, inspiring futures to dream big through education.
Blugold Beginnings Partners
- UW-Eau Claire Student Affairs
- Office of Multicultural Affairs
- Continuing Education
- Great Lakes Higher Education
- College of Education and Human Sciences
Sister Programs
UW-Green Bay's Phuture Phoenix
This is the original award winning program in Green Bay, Wisconsin that has been bringing 5th graders to their campus since 2003 and following them until high school graduation, offering encouragement, tutoring and support from trained university student mentors. Visit the program at http://www.uwgb.edu/phuturephoenix/.
Western Washington's Compass to Campus
The Compass 2 Campus program focuses on furthering educational opportunities for underrepresented, first generation, diverse children in Whatcom and Skagit County Schools. It was originally conceived at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay as the Phuture Phoenix Program by Cyndie Shepard, the wife of Bruce Shepard, President of Western Washington University, and Ginny Riopelle, UW-Green Bay Council of Trustees member. Visit the program at http://www.wce.wwu.edu/C2C/#top
Silver Lake College's Look Ahead Lakers
The Look Ahead Lakers program is designed to give fifth grade students from low-income families a peek into higher education—an opportunity that many of these students would otherwise never consider. Visit the program at www.sl.edu/news/lookahead.asp
