As an incentive for students across the UW System to get vaccinated, interim President Tommy Thompson on Sunday announced a lottery giving out nearly a half-million dollars in scholarships.
Under the plan, vaccinated students at all University of Wisconsin campuses except UW-Madison will be entered into a lottery for one of 70 one-time, $7,000 scholarships.
The catch is that in order to be eligible, a student's campus has to hit a 70% vaccination rate by Oct. 15.
The incentive program comes as UW campuses are now weeks away from the start of school and the Delta variant of COVID-19 continues to gain a foothold in mostly unvaccinated pockets of people across America.