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February 19, 2024
EAU CLAIRE – The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (UWEC) Foundation Board of Directors recently received a national award for its leadership and initiative in partnering to develop multiple major real estate projects that transformed campus and helped revitalize the community.
The foundation is among four higher education governing boards nationwide selected to receive the 2024 John W. Nason Award for Board Leadership from the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges.
“We’ve been fortunate to have a foundation staff and board who are visionary and willing to think outside the box to benefit UW-Eau Claire,” Chancellor James Schmidt said. “Over the past 15 years, the UW-Eau Claire Foundation and Blugold Real Estate Foundation have worked to develop creative solutions to our facility needs. If not for the work of the board members and staff, we would not have the distinction of being ‘Wisconsin’s most beautiful campus.’ Their efforts also have helped the community show our deep commitment to collaboration and the notion that by working together we all thrive. I am grateful to the staff and board members for their singular commitment to our students and university.”
This year’s honorees for the Nason Award, established in 1992, were chosen from nominations from four-year public and private colleges and universities, two-year institutions and institutionally related foundations.
The foundation’s nomination submission indicated its efforts impacted $700 million in capital improvements with more than $80 million funded by gifts.
The Foundation also collaborated on projects with Mayo Clinic Health System, UW-Eau Claire alumnus Justin Vernon of the Grammy Award-winning group Bon Iver, the Sonnentag Foundation, Eau Claire County, the State of Wisconsin, the Pablo Foundation, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Foundation, Visit Eau Claire and the City of Eau Claire.
The UWEC Foundation and other award recipients will be honored at the National Conference on Trusteeship March 26-28.
