How it works
A student with more swipes than they'll use donates some before the term-end reset; the swipes become a small block of dining credits the Dean of Students Office grants to students who ask for help. The recipient's card just works at the dining hall — nothing on the reader flags it.
Alongside the Food Pantry
Donated swipes cover the hot meal; the Food Pantry covers groceries for cooking at home. Most students who use one end up using both, and a request for either connects them to a case manager if they want one.
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
Donate: Up to a set number of swipes per term, through MyPorter. Distributed by: The Dean of Students Office, as confidential meal-plan credits. Who receives: Any student who requests support; no documentation of need. 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.