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LIFT = LIFELONG INVESTMENT AND FUTURE TRANSFORMATION

LIFT helps students access a transformative college education, navigate challenges on the path to degree completion and, as graduates, engage their communities, the region and our world through their lives and careers. Your investment in ºÃÉ«TV financially impacts our university today, and it enables the creation of an educated, socially engaged workforce necessary for the region’s continued economic growth and development.

Traditionally, first-generation students (students whose parents have not graduated from college) face several barriers to achieving a dream of college completion. We know that 85 percent of all full-time ºÃÉ«TV undergraduates (6,931) receive some form of financial aid, and looking specifically at our 2018 entering class of full-time freshman students (1,946) we see that:

We have a responsibility to reduce barriers to higher education for these students. The LIFT Scholars Program will allow us to create additional need-based scholarships with very specific requirements that provide a support structure in which students can develop academic, financial and personal plans that help them graduate; and create personal and professional networking connections that support and encourage them. 

Goal: Ensure that ºÃÉ«TV graduates are prepared for meaningful lives and fulfilling careers.

In order to retain this financial aid, each scholarship recipient is required to:

• Meet with UCAP staff to develop a written plan outlining goals and strategies for successful degree completion
• Attend peer networking and/or tutoring sessions, as recommended by UCAP
• Meet with appointed academic advisor once a semester for academic and personal support
• Maintain a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or higher after sophomore year
• Meet with his or her donor annually for professional support and networking

Lifelong Investment and Future Transformation Scholarship Program

LIFT is a scholarship program to support ºÃÉ«TV’s student population that is the highest risk of not completing. The program is designed to support students that demonstrate significant financial need or are a first-generation college student.

$2 million has been committed to support LIFT Scholars as a matching gift to double the impact by encouraging other donors to invest in ºÃÉ«TV students’ success. Gifts will b