Phase II: Scholarship and Program Support
1. Establish the Presidential and Trustees Scholarships. These new programs are designed to allow Purdue to attract and retain the best and brightest students from across Indiana, the nation, and the world. The Presidential Scholarship will award high-achieving high school students ei-ther $20,000 (for residents of Indiana) or $28,000 (for non-Indiana residents) over four years of study at Purdue. The Trustees Scholarship will grant a total of $32,000 to Indiana residents and $40,000 to non-Indiana residents over four years. These scholarships will be awarded to the highest achieving high school students entering Purdue. Goal: $10,000,000 |
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2. Purdue Promise: Purdue Promise is an exciting new program that combines strong support services with grant assistance to help eligible Twenty-first Century Scholars thrive at Purdue. The support services are designed to help students succeed both academically and socially. The grant package, which will include federal work study funding as well as the Twenty-first Century Scholars award, meets full financial need and is renewable for up to four years (total of eight semesters). Renewable for up to eight semesters as long as student fully participates in the program, maintains fulltime enrollment, and is in good standing with the University. |
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3. Establish the Purdue Marquis Scholarship Program for middle-income students. Students who do not qualify for any federal or state income-based assistance would be targeted. Goal: $6,000,000 |
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4. Start a summer reading program, Boilermaker Common Reading Effort, designed to foster community and academic success at the start of col-lege. Purdue would collaborate with the cities of Lafayette and West Lafayette to create the largest book club in the nation. Goal: $2,400,000 |
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5. Formulate a Learning Communities expansion effort. With enrollment in this program at an all-time high (20 percent of first-year students), it is an ideal time to expand the program. Naming rights would be available for larger gifts. Goal: $1,000,000 |
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6. Produce the College Guide Initiative to improve pre-college preparation and postsecondary enrollment of students from schools with historically low college attendance rates. Recent Purdue graduates would be placed in high schools across Indiana to promote college as an option. Goal: $1,300,000 |
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7. Compose a Boiler Gold Rush scholarship program for low-income students. This effort would create a fund to support additional BGR scholarships so that interested students won’t have to be concerned about the fee to attend this freshman jumpstart program. Goal: $900,000 |
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