The Faculty Excellence Challenge supports a key priority in the Campaign for Carolina — Faculty & Scholarship: The 21st-Century Professoriate — which aims to raise funds to help the University attract, reward and retain top faculty amidst stiff competition from other institutions.
“Alan knew that the performing arts illuminate issues and create empathy.”
“When you see something come to fruition and make a difference, you can’t put it into words. We’re just blessed to do it.”
“If we can help foster a sense of belonging, give these students a solid foundation and break down the obstacles, I think we can graduate a lot more leaders.”
“We decided we wanted to do something significant in our lives in gratitude for what the University has meant to us and our children.”
“Everyone that we met and worked with on campus, from Chancellor [Carol] Folt to Vice Chancellor [Winston] Crisp, among others, was absolutely phenomenal, and so passionate about their commitment to every student’s education.”
“… There’s something very different about knowing you have the means to do something and actually doing it.”
*Dollar amounts rounded to nearest $10,000
*Dollar amounts rounded to nearest $10,000
*Dollar amounts rounded to nearest $10,000
*Donors of cash gifts; does not include Educational Foundation donors
*Unaudited; percentages rounded to nearest 10th
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Fiscal Year 2017: July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2017
More than 2,300 donors helped the University meet the Give for Good: Scholarship Challenge, adding more than $45 million to the original $20 million commitment for a total of $65 million to support need- and merit-based scholarships this year. Launched in fall 2016 by a gift from an anonymous donor, the Challenge benefits the Carolina Covenant and the Morehead-Cain Foundation. The Challenge concluded on the 2017 observance of University Day (Oct. 12), the anniversary of Carolina’s founding.
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An $18 million gift from the Shuford family of Hickory, North Carolina — the largest single one-time gift by a living individual or family to the College of Arts and Sciences — will expand and advance the minor in entrepreneurship. The gift will enable the program to more than double in size, with the expansion including three additional entrepreneurs-in-residence, up to four faculty fellows and 70 student internships, and a lecture series on innovation and entrepreneurship. The program is now the Shuford Program in Entrepreneurship.
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A $12 million gift from Joan Gillings of Chapel Hill — the largest single gift ever from an individual to the performing arts at Carolina — will support PlayMakers Repertory Company and the Department of Dramatic Art. The commitment will enable the department to recruit and retain top graduate students by funding additional scholarships in acting, costume production and technical production. It will also expand PlayMakers’ vital education and outreach programs, including a new Mobile Shakespeare initiative, and its K-12 educational matinee and teaching artist residency programs. The Center for Dramatic Art is now the Joan H. Gillings Center for Dramatic Art.
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Carolina’s most comprehensive fundraising campaign ever — For All Kind: the Campaign for Carolina — kicked off Oct. 6, 2017, with a goal of $4.25 billion by Dec. 31, 2022. Several significant gifts from fiscal year 2017 were announced during the launch, including:
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Carolina’s new overarching strategic framework, The Blueprint for Next, was laid out in 2017 by Chancellor Carol L. Folt to guide its growth and future direction. Upheld by two core strategies — “Of the Public, for the Public” and “Innovation Made Fundamental” — The Blueprint for Next combines Carolina’s historic role in service to the state and its people with a fundamental quality essential to Carolina’s future success: a willingness to continually reinvent itself. The University’s willingness to grow and change while staying rooted in its public service mission informed and refined funding priorities in For All Kind: the Campaign for Carolina priorities:
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A gift of 375 works — valued at $5 million — from former Ackland Art Museum Director Charles W. Millard III spans South Asian sculpture, 19th-century photographs, North Carolina pottery and 20th-century abstraction. He has already donated more than 50 works of art to the Ackland, an impressive record further enhanced by exceptional gifts in 2008 through 2010 from his Tyche Foundation, set up specifically to acquire major works of art for the Ackland.
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The following is a list of UNC Board of Trustees members who served during fiscal year 2017.