How it works
Each senior class picks one concrete thing — refurnishing a lounge, funding a small annual scholarship, adding lighting to a stretch of the Riverfront Trail — and the committee raises for it through spring. A $5 gift counts toward the class participation rate the same as a large one.
Why participation, not total
The number the committee actually chases is the percentage of the class who gave, because a habit of small annual giving started at graduation is worth far more over decades than one big senior-year cheque.
In and around Porter Falls
The UW–Porter Falls Foundation shares the Depot with admissions, which is deliberate: the people who fund scholarships and the students who receive them use the same front door. Most gifts to Porter are small, local and recurring.
The practical details
Run by: An elected senior class gift committee. Typical projects: A named study space, trail benches, a scholarship seeded by the class. Participation: Measured by share of the class who give anything, not by dollars. 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 UW–Porter Falls Foundation & Alumni Relations (Welcome Center at the Depot). Call (715) 555–0280 or email foundation@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.