The Imagine Tomorrow campaign has led to creation of five new endowments supporting students in BSU’s business-related programs, three of which are funded to the point that they were able to provide a total of $13,600 in awards to six students this year:

The Welle Family/First National Bank Scholarship provided two awards this year.

The Ron Batchelder Scholarship provided one award this year.

A  contribution from Mike and Tracy Roberge has established an endowment that provided three awards this year and in 2015-16 will provide $40,000 in business scholarships.

The McBride Academic Scholarship and the George Welte Memorial Business Scholarship have been funded and will begin supporting awards soon.

Two new endowments have been launched specifically to support accounting majors:

The Joe Kocinski Accounting Scholarship supported two $3,000 awards to accounting majors with strong academic and leadership achievements and financial need.

The Kevin and Trudy Rautio Access Scholarship will be awarded each year to an incoming undergraduate student who has financial need, with a preference for students from northern Minnesota.