How it works
A student-parent applies with proof of enrollment, their childcare arrangement and a financial-need determination from Financial Aid. Approved grants pay the provider directly where possible, or reimburse the family against receipts, up to a cap that scales with how many credits the parent is carrying.
The emergency piece
A separate small pool covers a sudden gap — a provider that closes mid-term, a summer session that wasn't in the original plan — on a few days' turnaround rather than the next full cycle.
In and around Porter Falls
Support at Porter is deliberately clustered on the first two levels of Halvorsen Library so a student can move from one kind of help to another without leaving the building or re-explaining the situation. Walk-in hours run late Monday through Thursday during the semester, and everything can also be booked through MyPorter.
The practical details
Award: Scaled to need and hours enrolled, up to a per-term cap. Paid to: A licensed childcare provider, or reimbursed against receipts. Cycles: Each term, with a rolling emergency allocation. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Student Success Center (Halvorsen Library, Level 1). Call (715) 555–0170 or email success@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.