A new University of Iowa program to bolster student scholarship support for Iowa resident undergraduates is the cornerstone of $260 million in student success initiatives underway at the university.

The program, Golden Pledge: A Presidential Partnership for Student Success, will match the payout from new, privately funded endowed scholarships of $100,000 or more.  It will dramatically enhance the more than $154 million in endowed scholarship support already raised by the University of Foundation in its current campaign for University of Iowa students.

Mason committed to match these new scholarship dollars through a fund established in the UI Foundation to support student scholarships. The program will run through calendar year 2017 and is designed to significantly increase the number of scholarships for Iowans.

“At the University of Iowa, student success is our top priority,” says UI President Sally Mason. “Today, given the economic pressures being placed on the state’s college-bound high school students—and as public universities are being asked to become more entrepreneurial and self-supporting—we need to continue to develop new ways to increase scholarship funding and make public higher education more accessible and affordable.”
-Article taken from ‘Hawkeye Caucus’ listserv