Foundation Scholarships

Hoeppner, Tim and Melissa Opportunity Scholarship

The donors desire to help two incoming freshmen with great potential to be successful students, leaders and successful in their careers after graduation. The recipients must have significant financial need. The donors’ preference is to help students from urban areas but they also would consider recipients from economically challenged rural areas in Wisconsin. The primary consideration is the students with a combination of great potential and great financial need who also have extraordinary circumstances in their lives that make paying for college education very challenging. The recipients may continue to receive this scholarship for a total of four years as long as they continue to make satisfactory academic progress.

The admissions office will select the recipients from the pool of qualified freshman applicants, and the scholarship is renewable for a period of up to four years, provided the recipient continues to meet the eligibility criteria. If the recipient fails to remain enrolled at UW-Eau Claire and/or maintain academic progress, or when the scholarship has been awarded to the same student for a period of four years, the scholarship will then be awarded the next year to an outstanding, qualified incoming freshman.

Determined by the Admissions Office.

Selected through the Admissions Office.

Determined by the Admissions Office.

The Admissions Office will notify the recipient by letter and complete and submit a “Scholarship Award Form” to the Financial Aid Office. The renewal will be confirmed by the Financial Aid Office and is automatic for up to three years if the recipient meets the qualifications noted above.

The scholarship was established by Tim and Melissa Hoeppner. Tim, a 1982 UW-Eau Claire graduate, and Melissa both appreciate the importance of a college degree. They also have benefitted first hand from scholarships that helped them obtain their educational goals. They want to make a difference for the students who will receive their scholarships. They also are taking advantage of the generous corporate match from Tim’s employer to significantly fund this scholarship. Thank you notes should be addressed to Tim and Melissa Hoeppner and sent in care of the UW-Eau Claire Foundation, S-214.