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Why UW-Eau Claire needs your support Planned giving |
| Blugold Promise Scholarships
The Blugold Promise Scholarship Program supports the University’s strategic vision of becoming the premier undergraduate learning community in the upper Midwest. Our goal is to provide scholarships to all UW-Eau Claire students with great potential and hopes but limited financial means. These scholarships are more important than ever during these times of economic challenge and cuts to student aid. Blugold Promise scholarships are intended to be awarded for up to four years to encourage students to graduate in four years, which also helps make a UW-Eau Claire degree affordable. Why support a Blugold Promise Scholarship? Providing an affordable quality education to outstanding and deserving students is a priority now more than ever. The university has embraced the "Wisconsin Idea" that a university education should be made available to all citizens of Wisconsin and beyond - an ideal that has been seriously challenged by tuition increases, historically low State investment in higher education and changes to state and federal financial aid policies. Through the Blugold Promise Scholarship Program, you can provide need-based scholarships to UW-Eau Claire students whose educational opportunities have been most affected by these economic challenges. The unique aspect of the program is that the students receive scholarships their freshman year, and if they do well their first year, they receive larger scholarships their sophomore year and, in some cases, their junior and senior years. Options for Funding a Blugold Promise Scholarship? A gift of $750 over a two-year period to the Blugold Promise Scholarship program will provide a scholarship of at least $500 to an incoming freshman with high financial need and great academic potential. If the recipient remains focused and successful throughout the freshman year, he or she is eligible for a $1,000 scholarship the second year at UW-Eau Claire. A gift of $875 per year for four years will provide a scholarship of $500 for an incoming freshman and $1,000 scholarships each year for the next three years if the student maintains a 3.0 GPA and continues to have financial need. The motivation is to support a student with scholarships for four years to encourage their focus on completing their degree in four years. A gift of $1,000 for four years will provide a $1,000 scholarship for four years if the student maintains a 3.0 GPA and continues to have financial need. If you choose you can sponsor more than one student, or you may provide a larger scholarship increment for an award. If you want to ensure ongoing scholarship funding for students, you may endow a Blugold Promise Scholarship with a commitment of at least $25,000. This pledge may be completed over a period of up to five years. (More information about establishing an endowed fund is available online and by contacting the UW-Eau Claire Foundation.)
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