Elevate Eastern

USU Eastern – Elevate Eastern Scholarship Program

It’s time to Elevate Eastern! Utah State University Eastern has established the Elevate Eastern Scholarship program to help remove financial barriers to higher education and enhance the student experience on the USU Eastern campus. Elevate Eastern will directly impact USU Eastern students, the USU Eastern campus, Price and Helper Cities, Carbon County and beyond.

Elevate Eastern will provide eligible USU Eastern students with financial support assisting with their cost of attendance. Cost of attendance can include housing, food, books, academic supplies, transportation and tuition and fees. On average, USU Eastern students will spend twice as much to cover cost of attendance expenses than they will on tuition and fees. Often, the financial barriers prohibiting students from pursuing a higher education, or continuing their degree, lay within the cost of attendance category.

Elevate Eastern will lead to USU Eastern enrollment growth. Increasing the student population and the enhancement of the local, trained workforce will support the growth of existing employers, attract new businesses and help invigorate local economies. A stable economy, higher individual earning potential and greater access to higher education will help break the cycle of generational poverty within the region.

Elevate Eastern scholarships will be awarded to undergraduate students enrolled in courses taught on the USU Eastern campus. Recipients must remain in good academic standing and should be eligible to work in the United States. Both full-time and part-time students are eligible to receive Elevate Eastern scholarships of up to $2,000/academic year.

How to Give

Elevate Eastern Scholarship Program

Online:
Credit, Debit, PayPal, Venmo or Bank Transfer

Scholarship
Endowment

Mail:
Utah State University
Elevate Eastern Scholarship or Endowment Program (Please specify which fund)
1590 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-1590

Make checks payable to "Utah State University."

Phone:
1-888-653-6246

Stock or Wire Transfer:
Contact USU Gift Processing at 435-797-1320 or advgifts@usu.edu for instructions.

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Help Elevate Eastern!

Donations of any amount can support the Elevate Eastern scholarship program. Individuals, business and foundations can help impact the lives of USU Eastern students and the local community by supporting the program. Donors can elect to support expendable Elevate Eastern Scholarships or the Elevate Eastern Endowment. Expendable scholarships will be awarded to students during the upcoming semester or academic year. Gifts to the endowment will support Elevate Eastern Scholarships in perpetuity, impacting students for generations. To donate to expendable scholarships, click the “Scholarship” button on the How to Give section above. To donate to the endowment, click the “Endowment” button on the How to Give section above.   

Name an Elevate Eastern Scholarship

Elevate Eastern scholarships can be named to pay tribute to a loved one or special faculty member, preserve a family name, or highlight a company’s philanthropy. To name a scholarship, donors must pledge a minimum gift commitment of $10,000 for an Expendable Scholarship or a minimum commitment of $25,000 for an Endowed Scholarship to the Elevate Eastern program. Commitment can be paid over five years or less.

To learn more, please complete the information below. A USU Eastern representative will contact you directly.

*Scholarship Type



USU Eastern “Elevate Eastern” Named Scholarships

Castle Gate Engineering Elevate Eastern Scholarship
Emery Telcom Elevate Eastern Scholarship Endowment
Komatsu Mining Corp Foundation Elevate Eastern Scholarship
Peczuh Family Elevate Eastern Scholarship Endowment 
Peter V. Bunderson Memorial Elevate Eastern Family Scholarship
Rocky Mountain Power Foundation Elevate Eastern Scholarship
Shelton & Sharon Wakefield Elevate Eastern Scholarship Endowment 

Elevate Eastern Scholarship Corporate Supporters

Castle Gate Engineering – Price, UT

Rocky Mountain Power Foundation – Salt Lake City, UT

Emery Telcom - Price, UT

Komatsu Mining Corp Foundation - Wellington, UT

    • Elevate Eastern Expendable Scholarship
      • Your gift will be used only for the above-stated purpose if the required minimum expendable level of $10,000 is met by December 31, 2030.  If not met, the gift will be moved to a general fund with a similar purpose. 
      • If circumstances arise that render the stated purpose of the gifts (as set forth herein) illegal, impractical, impossible, or wasteful (e.g., a change in law, the elimination of a USU program, position, or course of study, the persistent unavailability of scholarship recipients that meet the criteria, etc.); then, as set forth in this Solicitation, under such circumstances and in keeping with Utah Code 51-8-501(1), USU may designate a new purpose and/or scholarship selection criteria for the gifts.  Any such new purpose shall be defined by USU’s President and Associate Vice President USU Eastern.
      • Effective July 1, 2021, a 5% university gift investment fee, governed by USU’s applicable policies, will be applied to all new, non-endowed gifts to improve University Advancement’s capacity to increase and manage philanthropic giving to USU. 
      • By letter dated April 8, 1959, the Internal Revenue Service has declared USU (federal tax identification number 87-6000528), to be a duly qualified charitable organization under section 501(c)(3) and also an organization described in sections 509(a)(1) and 170(b)(1)(A)(iv) of the Internal Revenue Code.

    • Elevate Eastern Scholarship Endowment
      • Your gift will be used only for the above-stated purpose if the required minimum endowment level of $25,000 is met by December 31, 2030.  If not met, the gift will be considered expendable towards the stated purpose. 
      • The Endowment will exist in perpetuity.  If circumstances arise that render the stated purpose of the Endowment (as set forth herein) illegal, impractical, impossible, or wasteful (e.g., a change in law, the elimination of a USU program, position, or course of study, the persistent unavailability of scholarship recipients that meet the criteria, etc.); then, as set forth in this Solicitation, under such circumstances and in keeping with Utah Code 51-8-501(1), USU may designate a new purpose and/or scholarship selection criteria for the Endowment.  Any such new purpose shall be defined by USU’s President and Associate Vice President USU Eastern.
      • The Endowment will be invested under the direction of the University Public Treasurer. Oversight and advisement of investments will be provided by the USU Investment Advisory Committee in accordance with USU’s investment policy. The USU Foundation is the legal entity designated by USU to receive charitable gifts in support of its academic mission.
      • Distributions from the Endowment shall be governed by USU’s Endowment Spending Policy. The spending policy calls for an annual distribution up to 5% (currently set at 4%) of the value of the endowment account to be expended per the gift agreement. An additional 1.5% of the endowment value shall be used to fund the administration of the endowment and USU advancement efforts.  All additional gains shall be retained as appreciation and invested along with the corpus to grow the value of the Endowment over time.
      • By letter dated May 21, 2008, the Internal Revenue Service has declared the USU Foundation (federal tax identification number 87-0627128), to be a duly qualified charitable organization under section 501(c)(3) and also an organization described in sections 509(a)(1) and 170(b)(1)(A)(iv) of the Internal Revenue Code.  The Foundation is a duly chartered active Utah nonprofit corporation, under the provision of Utah Code, Title 16, Chapter 6a.