Increase access to scholarship and waiver opportunities among underrepresented student populations (see PFA 5).

Owners/Accountable Party

• Vice President for Enrollment Management
• VP for Marketing and Communications
• CEO of UM Foundation

Actions

Near-term Actions

• UM Foundation collaborate with executive leadership to articulate the case for need-based and unrestricted scholarships to campus leaders, alumni, prospective donors, and other stakeholders to foster greater understanding of and alignment around the importance of need-based and unrestricted financial aid to efficiently meet the access needs of all students and especially underrepresented students
• UM Foundation and UM to deploy public messaging and enhanced fundraising efforts for need-based and unrestricted scholarships.

Future Actions

Completed and Ongoing Actions

• Implemented Grizzly Promise to provide all Montanans who come from a family that makes $50,000 or less with access to UM education tuition-free.
• Implemented Payne Impact Scholars to support students with significant financial need but who fall outside the Federal Pell Grant eligibility.
• Launched advertising campaign focused on Grizzly Promise and targeting Montana students and parents
• Cultivation and solicitation of philanthropic gifts to support need-based scholarships is ongoing; the portfolio of need-based scholarship managed by the UM Foundation and providing support to students is growing