Doris Oduro Memorial Scholarship

Doris Oduro’s love and compassion for at-risk population groups carried her to various counseling-related work positions during her life time. During Doris’ short but busy life, she found time to be a successful youth and young adult bible teacher for her local church, a good wife, and a mother, while working hard for the things she believed in. At her untimely death to lung cancer in March 2007, she worked as a financial aid counselor in the Financial Aid Office at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. This scholarship was created to carry on, with her same enthusiasm and spirit, the search for solutions to difficulties confronting at-risk population groups.

The following criteria shall be used in the annual selection of the recipient(s):
1. Applicants must be graduate students
2. Applicants must be majoring in Counseling
3. Applicants must have a cumulative graduate GPA of 3.2 or higher
4. Applicants must have special interest in counseling at-risk population groups
5. Applicants must demonstrate financial need