Phelps Family Student Success Service Awards (SSSA)

These Student Success Service Awards (SSSA) were created and designed to recognize exemplary undergraduate, upper division students who have outstanding records of positively impacting the academic success of other UNC students. They have unselfishly committed their time, talent, knowledge and energy to peer tutoring, mentoring, individual and/or small group tutoring, and/or providing supplemental instruction, where requested, to support and contribute to the University’s mission of advancing student success in the UNC community. The Donors believe that there are noteworthy key pillars and values for building and living meaningful lives, including: 1) Contribute to your community by volunteering time and personal skills, talents, abilities, and experience; and, 2)Pay-it-forward by impacting the lives of others in meaningful and positive ways to them through small or large, random or planned, acts of kindness, caring, and giving back. Student Success Service Awardees exemplify such values and commitment to the UNC community.

The Phelps Family Student Success Service Awards are awarded to full-time undergraduate students enrolled in an on-campus degree program at the University of Northern Colorado. To qualify for the opportunity, the applicant must:
1. Be a full-time undergraduate student enrolled in an on-campus degree program at the University of Northern Colorado.
2. Be a citizen of the United States or a Permanent Resident or have DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival) status or have ASSET (Advancing Students for a Stroger Economy Tomorrow) status.
3. Be a Colorado resident.
4. Be an upper division, undergraduate, high achieving student, at the time the Award is applied to their account.
5. Have a record of providing substantial student support, delivering tutoring and/or mentoring with desired outcomes, through the Office of Student Academic Success and/or its campus partners.
6. Have demonstrated an outstanding UNC record of positively impacting the academic lives of UNC students through peer tutoring/mentoring, individual and small group tutoring, and also providing supplemental instruction, where requested, to support and contribute to student success to the UNC community.
7. Provide the selection committee with: insightful letter(s) of recommendation relevant to the subject matter supported; their academic record; language/interpersonal/communication skills; volunteer experience; extra-curricular activities; and, if required, a personal statement of up to 500 words addressing the selection committee’s given topic.
8. Demonstrate unmet financial need to OFA and be a student in good academic standing at the University.
9. Agree to make a written commitment to the SSSA Coordinator for forwarding to the UNC Foundation, upon acceptance of this scholarship, to enhancing the student’s level of personal financial literacy by successfully completing, prior to the recipient’s final semester, a free UNC-sponsored online financial literacy program for a core number of online modules, lectures, videos, and applied activities approved by the Provost’s Office or designate, typically requiring a minimum of twenty (20) distributed hours to complete. No graduation credits or grade points are involved.
10. Agree to submit a biographical summary, to be shared with the Donors, by the end of September of the fall semester when this Award scholarship is first applied to the recipient’s student account.
11. Not be a recipient of endowed Phelps Family Awards and Scholarships, with the exception of the Phelps Family NHS Student Research Awards. Recipients, however, may benefit from scholarship support and financial aid from other sources.