CAMPAIGN NEWS & GIFTS
Campaign UpdateThe Carolina Merit Campaign
Tri Delts help College of Arts and Sciences meet highest priority—faculty
More Council Gifts
Campaign Update
Campaign goal: $2,000,000,000
Raised to date: $1,702,987,080
Percent of goal raised: 85%
Percent of campaign over: 79%
Scholarships &
Fellowships created: 571 (out of 1000)
Professorships created: 167 (out of 200)
A few facts on woman donors:
*Individual woman donors have contributed $319 million, or 35 percent of gifts, raised to date.
*The average woman's gift to the campaign is $4,000.
*Carolina Women's Leadership Council members have collectively given $51 million to the campaign.
The campaign began July 1, 1999, and ends Dec. 31, 2007
The Carolina Merit Campaign
One of the deciding factors for raising the goal for the Carolina First Campaign from $1.8 billion to $2 billion, was the need for more merit-based scholarships. As part of the new goal, Carolina has launched a drive to raise $60 million to endow merit-based scholarships. The Carolina Merit Campaign aims to double the number of institutionally-funded scholarships that we currently offer to North Carolina residents—from 150 to 300 annually. This means that, each and every year, 150 of North Carolina’s top high-school seniors will choose to attend Carolina instead of Duke, State, or UVA. Over time—once these scholarships are fully phased in among the freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior classes—the number of new North Carolinian merit scholars in residence at Carolina at any one time will reach 600.
An equally-important goal of the Campaign is to create 15 more institutionally-funded scholarships for out-of-state students. Presently, we offer only 30 such scholarships each year. To fully phase in the increase of 15 new merit awards to out-of-state students each year will require a total of 60 new out-of-state scholarships.
Giving the Carolina Merit Campaign a boost are Council member Mary Helen Dunn Wade ’83 and her husband, Gregg’81, who have contributed generously to the cause. Mary Helen is a partner in the executive search firm of Russell Reynolds Associates. The Wades reside in Spartanburg, S.C. with their four children.
Tri Delts help College of Arts and Sciences meet highest priority—faculty
Carolina Women’s Council member Becky Todd Cobey ’75 is spearheading efforts to establish the first University professorship funded by a sorority. The Delta Delta Delta Professorship in the College of Arts and Sciences would be Carolina’s third Greek professorship—both Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi Delta Theta fraternities have established $1 million professorships.
The goal is to raise $666,000 in gifts and pledges by December 31, 2007, and then apply for a state match of $334,000 from the North Carolina Distinguished Professors Endowment Trust Fund, creating a $1 million professorship. To date, $186,340 has been committed in gifts and pledges.
On May 16, the Tri Delts, including Council members Bailey Sellars Barnett '73, Prince Dixon Witt '82, Molly Dewar Froelich '83, Patty Ward Hendrix '83, Margaret Campbell Ullrich '86 and Jane McColl Lockwood '90, will host a fund-raiser for the professorship in Charlotte at the Hodges Taylor Gallery.
For more information on the professorship, contact Emily Stevens at the Arts and Sciences Foundation at 919-843-5285 or emily.stevens@unc.edu.
More Council Gifts
In other Campaign news, the following council members have also made generous contributions to the Carolina First Campaign:
Dorothy “Dotty” Reynolds Brotherton’s family foundation—The Reynolds Foundation—is endowing study abroad scholarships in the Honors Program in the College of Arts and Sciences. Dotty is a 1974 Carolina graduate and was one of the first women in the Honors Program.
Sisters Frances ’77 and Susan Gravely ’73, ’79, along with their mother Lee Gravely, are establishing the Lee Gravely Scholarship in the College of Arts and Sciences to support student opportunities to study abroad. The sisters, who own and operate Vietri, Inc., in Hillsborough, N.C., plan to continue building the fund in coming years.
Marjorie “Dee” Moses Schwab ’69 has pledged a generous contribution to the Institute for the Arts and Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences. The Institute, established in 1987, provides a wide range of fellowships, seminars, workshops and facilities to develop faculty teaching, scholarship, leadership and service.