Giving Societies
The Old Main Society
The UWSP Old Main Society was formed to recognize and reward leadership donors to the UWSP Foundation. Private funding is crucial to UWSP. These dollars help to make us an outstanding campus, providing high quality education to our students and serving as a valuable resource to the community of central Wisconsin.
Our Old Main Society members are invited to special events and receive personal correspondence that gives them an insider's look at what's happening at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. All members receive a framed, foiled print of the trademark Old Main cupola. Old Main Society members are listed in the Foundation’s Annual Honor Roll of Donors and Annual Report.
Old Main Society membership is annual. You can become a member of this prestigious society by making annual gifts totaling $1,000 or more. Gifts made during the UWSP Foundation's fiscal year (July 1 through June 30) qualify you for a calendar year membership.
Giving Levels:
- Bronze Circle $1,000-2,499
- Silver Circle $2,500-4,999
- Gold Circle $5,000-9,999
- Platinum Circle $10,000-24,999
- Leadership Circle $25,000+
The William C. Hansen Society
The William C. Hansen Society recognizes planned gifts and extraordinary lifetime giving to UWSP. This society honors those individuals and organizations who have:
- named the UWSP Foundation as a beneficiary in a will or trust document or as the beneficiary of a specific asset such as a CD, mutual fund, real estate property, or other asset. (Information on making a bequest)
- made a planned gift to the UWSP Foundation through a gift annuity program, charitable lead or remainder trust or other planned giving instruments. (Information on planned gifts)
- made lifetime gifts to the UWSP Foundation totaling more than $25,000.
William C. Hansen was the first alumnus of Stevens Point Normal School to serve as president of his alma mater, which had become known as Central State Teachers College. For 22 years, he worked to improve the quality of education. He was the longest tenured president in the history of the school, presiding over the change from a teachers college to a state college in 1951.
During this time, the enrollment and faculty tripled. President Hansen addressed both the academic and physical needs of campus. In 1953 there were three majors offered; 10 years later, there were 22. A benchmark of his leadership was the establishment of the nation’s first conservation education major. Long-needed buildings were constructed, among them the Science Building, the first $2 million structure on campus.
After his retirement from the school in 1962, President Hansen served as a senator in the Wisconsin State Senate and on the Stevens Point Board of Education for a number of years.
Hansen Society MembersFor more information on giving societies at UWSP, please call 1-800-858-5267 or send an email to foundation@uwsp.edu.