OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — There’s a new fundraising push on the UW-Oshkosh campus to provide more funding for student scholarships.
The UW-Oshkosh Foundation launched the 1871 Society giving campaign.
The name comes in honor of the year the university began.
The membership is a three-year commitment of $1,871 annually. The foundation’s goal is to have 53 donors join the society in the first year. The Foundation will provide a first-year match of $1,871 for each of the 53—adding $100,000 to student scholarship funds.
“Knowing that UWO has continued to need flexibility to give student support through scholarships, the UWO Foundation felt it was time to create a giving vehicle for alumni and donors to directly assist UWO in that way,” said Greg Giles, executive director of the UW Oshkosh Foundation.
The society will aid general scholarship funding at UW Oshkosh, which helps the university with recruitment and retention. It will supplement existing scholarship funds and boost scholarships for incoming first-year students at the Oshkosh campus, incoming transfer students and access campus students.
Donations to the 1871 Society will, for example, help fund the Titan Promise Incoming Freshman Scholarship. The award considers the incoming student’s academic history, grade-point average, extracurricular participation, community involvement and financial need. This year, UW Oshkosh will be able to provide 88 incoming first-year students with awards of $2,000. In spring 2022 it gave $1,000 awards to 100 students.
