The West Virginia University Foundation has been honored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) for its innovative Private Scholarship Web Page.

The Foundation has received a Seal of Excellence Award in CASE ’s 2002 Circle of Excellence Awards Program for Philanthropy Programs, which annually honors those institutions and professionals who excel in fund-raising programs and services. The awards are featured in the October issue of Currents magazine.

“We are very honored to have received this award from such a prestigious organization as CASE ,”said F. Duke Perry, president and CEO of the WVU Foundation.”In economic times such as they are, affording a college education is difficult. The scholarship web site is an invaluable service we provide to those students who want to further their education.”

Entries were assessed for development efforts that could be both used as models for other institutions and incorporated into CASE ’s core curriculum framework. Of the more than 3,700 individual entries, 346 awards were granted and only 12, including the WVU Foundation, were profiled in Currents.

The web site identifies more than 750 privately funded scholarships at WVU which provide assistance to more than 2,800 students. Visitors to the site can obtain scholarship descriptions and eligibility requirements, interactively search through scholarship funds based on criteria entered, apply/self-identify online, and learn about the donor or individual for whom the fund is named.

The site may be accessed three ways: directly fromhttp://domino.wvuf.wvnet.edu/fundsch.nsf, from the Foundation’s web site athttp://www.wvuf.orgor from the WVU Web site athttp://www.wvu.edu.