How it works
When an admitted student notes a parent or grandparent who graduated from Porter, the Foundation verifies it against alumni records and adds the award to the financial-aid package — there's no separate competition. It renews each year the student stays in good standing.
Stacking
It layers on top of merit and need-based aid rather than replacing them, up to the cost of attendance. Families are told the exact combined number in the revised award letter, not left to guess.
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
Amount: A modest annual award, renewable for four years. Eligibility: A verified parent or grandparent Porter degree; no separate essay. Applied: Automatically, once the family connection is confirmed. 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.