What the awards recognise
Categories cover a full career of achievement, an early-career honor for graduates within ten years, and a service award for alumni who have given time rather than money — mentoring students, sitting on an advisory board, hosting co-op students year after year.
How someone is chosen
A committee of alumni, faculty and Foundation staff reviews nominations submitted by anyone in the Porter community; nominees do not apply for themselves. Winners are honored at a Millrace Week dinner and profiled on the alumni pages for the year.
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
Presented: Each year at Millrace Week. Categories: Career achievement, early career, service to Porter. Nominate: Open to any student, faculty or alum. 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.