2026-27 Phelps Family Scholarships Available

Information about the scholarships currently available:

• 2026-27 Phelps Family C.A.P. Award — two $10,000 scholarships are available for juniors or seniors from any major. Championed by UNC friends Bob and Bonnie Phelps Family, the C.A.P. Awards recognize students whose lives demonstrate an exceptional and exemplary personal commitment to the principles of “Contribute, Achieve and Pay it Forward.” 

• 2026-27 Phelps Family Student Success Service Awards — $4,000 scholarships available to students who have a record of providing student tutoring or mentoring through the Office of Student Academic Success or its campus partners. 

For questions, please contact Margaret.Kelley@unco.edu or call 970-351-4054. Undergraduate students should apply by Feb. 1 through the UNC Scholarship Application.

About the Phelps Family Awards

The Phelps Family Awards were established to recognize Brian Phelps, son of the Donors and a 2012 graduate of the University, and to honor Dr. Sherilyn Morrow, Communication Studies Professor.

Bob and Bonnie Phelps created these scholarship funds as a means: 1) to support student success at the University and, 2) to call attention to three (3) core values and behaviors, using the acronym “CAP”, which the Donors believe to be among the keystone pillars for building and living meaningful lives:

• Contribute…by volunteering time and personal skills, talents, abilities, experience and passion around issues in service to the community;
• Achieve…by displaying a bias toward action and performance (including academically), self-reliance, persevering, and overcoming obstacles to accomplishing goals;
• 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.”