An endowed scholarship fund that will be awarded either to an English student or a Legal Studies student. Frank Kopecky was a UIS Professor Emeritus in Legal Studies. Linda Kopecky, who earned a Master's degree from UIS (then Sangamon State) in 1981, worked at UIS in the Brookens Library for eight years from 1992 to 2000. Since then, she has worked as Head of the Research and Instructional Support Department at the UWM Libraries at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Although this is the Kopeckys' first scholarship for UIS students, they have been good friends to UIS for many years, providing support for the UIS Fund, Brookens Library, NPR Illinois, the Innocence Project, and most recently the Student Union.