The College Heights Foundation, which administers privately funded scholarships for WKU students, awarded 45 scholarships for the first time this fall. These include newly established scholarships or funds that reached endowment level to begin making annual awards. Since its founding in 1923, the College Heights Foundation has grown to include more than 1,300 scholarship funds to directly support WKU students.
The Kathy Collier Memorial Scholarship, one of the newly awarded scholarships, was established by Kathy’s husband, Mark, and their two daughters, Christy Hall and Lori Wilson. Kathy Collier received a Bachelor of Science in Interior Design from WKU in 1998.
“We are so happy to honor my wife and the girls’ mother with the Kathy Collier Memorial Scholarship,” said Mark Collier. “We are pleased to know that it will help individuals in the interior design field for years to come as this was Kathy’s passion.”
The inaugural recipient of the Kathy Collier Memorial Scholarship is Hannah Chalfant, a senior from Bowling Green who is pursuing a degree in Interior Design.