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Jon Enslin: Earlier this semester, a group of faculty members came to me wanting to raise money for students who face significant financial need issues.
When the Foundation Board of Directors found out about this, they were excited and agreed to provide up to $20,000
to match dollar for dollar all donations made by faculty members toward this effort.
Any UW-Whitewater faculty or staff member that would like to made a gift towards the effort can do so
by going to the Foundations Web page to make a donation by credit card, or they may make a payroll deduction,
or by simply writing a check to the UW-Whitewater Foundation and bringing it to the offices in the Alumni Center.
A number of your colleagues have already made donations towards this effort. We hope you will consider doing the same.
Jodi Hare: Years ago, when I was in the Financial Aid office, 60 – 64 percent of our students received financial aid or applied for financial aid.
We’re up in the 80’s now. 80 percent of our students receive financial aid now, and that’s one of the reasons I wanted to give.
Beverly Kopper: For me personally, it’s also an opportunity to pay it forward. When I was in college, I had several scholarships.
So, to be a position to have the privilege to contribute this way, is a way to give back.
Seth Meisel: In the history department and undergraduate research, I had the opportunity to distribute scholarship funds,
money that donors had contributed to students, either in recognition for what they had achieved or to create new opportunities for them.
I thought that was a really special way to demonstrate how important it is for us that they’re able to continue their studies at Whitewater.
I thank all of you for considering a gift to this campaign.
Mary Beth Mackin: I give because I can. I give because this is a magical place. I give in honor of all the people and programs
who gave so that I could go to college. I’m paying it back, or maybe I’m paying it forward.
Tom Rios: To work with students or be among them in a university setting, to me the joy derived from it
is to talk with students and hear about their hopes and dreams that they bring to the university.
Jodi Hare: I hope I help them to succeed and to graduate. And it may not be in the four years,
but ultimately to see them graduate and be successful in their careers and be happy.
Mary Beth Mackin: On a daily basis, students excite me, they challenge me. Every single day I learn from students.
They challenge my beliefs, my values, they challenge what I know. To see them succeed, to see their passion, to see their learning,
and more to see their teaching, is what I went into this field for.
Beverly Kopper: We all know we have a very special community here, a special sense of family. What do you when a family member is need?
You step forward and help out and that’s exactly what this program’s about.
Richard Telfer: Well, I think we’re in a situation where most of our students have to have a job.
They have families who’ve undergone financial stress from loss of jobs or decreases in pay and so forth. Being able to afford college is more difficult than it’s been.
It’s really important that they have access to financial aid. Financial aid at the federal level has remained flat, at the state level has remained flat,
and so with increasing numbers of students and increasing need, it’s difficult for students to afford and to get the aid they need.
To all faculty and staff, I thank you if you think you’re able to give to help our students in need afford a college education.