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Campaign Update

UNC sets fund-raising record in fiscal year 2007

First four Kenan Music Scholars to study at UNC on full scholarships

22 UNC students to study in Asia as Phillips Ambassadors

UNC’s Knight Chair will refocus on the economics of digital media, journalism

Mellon Foundation gives $2.5 million for medieval and early modern studies

C. Felix Harvey III gives $2 million to advance University priorities

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Campaign Update (as of Aug. 27)

Campaign goal: $2,000,000,000
Raised: $2,222,046,475
Percent of goal raised: 111%
Percent of campaign over: 96%

Scholarships and Fellowships created: 728 (out of 1,000)
Professorships created: 199 (out of 200)

The campaign began July 1, 1999, and ends Dec. 31, 2007.

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UNC sets fund-raising record in fiscal year 2007

Carolina brought in more than $250 million in private gifts in fiscal year 2007, which ended June 30. The record-setting amount marked the first time Carolina has surpassed $250 million and the second time in as many years that the University has raised more than $200 million in cash and other assets in a single year. Carolina has seen four consecutive years of such record-setting support, topping $241 million in 2006, $192.5 million in 2005 and $192 million in 2004.

In fiscal year 2007, Carolina secured $363 million in campaign commitments, the highest annual total for the campaign. That raised Carolina First’s total to $2.2 billion. The year also marked the milestone of surpassing the campaign’s $2 billion goal – a feat that happened in February, 10 months ahead of schedule.

The campaign also created 18 endowed professorships in fiscal year 2007, as well as 93 scholarships and 21 fellowships.

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First four Kenan Music Scholars to study at UNC on full scholarships

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Cynthia Burton

Three instrumentalists and a vocalist are the first recipients of new four-year merit scholarships in music to Carolina.

The University’s first Kenan Music Scholars, 2007 high school graduates who will enroll in UNC this fall, are Cynthia Burton, a violinist from Banner Elk; Jessica Kunttu, a bassoonist from Cary; Daniel Hammond, a horn player from Raleigh; and Lauren Schultes, a soprano from Grosse Pointe, Mich.

The scholarships, valued at approximately $12,500 each, are funded by a $4 million endowment created last December by the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust of Chapel Hill. The trust also contributed another $4 million for a new UNC music building, now under construction on Columbia Street.

Each scholar also receives $6,000 for the four years, for study abroad, internships, attendance at music events and travel to audition for graduate schools.

A committee of music faculty members chose the recipients for their academic excellence and outstanding ability in music. Four new Kenan scholars will be selected annually.

“Our first class of Kenan Music Scholars emerged from intense competition,” said Tim Carter, music department chair and David G. Frey distinguished professor of music in the College of Arts and Sciences. “I am particularly pleased with their geographical spread and range of interests: They reveal just how much musical talent there is across the state of North Carolina and beyond.”

“William R. Kenan Jr.’s three sisters – Mary Lily Kenan Flagler, Sarah Graham Kenan and Jessie Kenan Wise – were all musically talented in singing, piano and organ,” said Thomas S. Kenan III, trustee of the Kenan Trust. “As we approached the closure of the highly successful Carolina First Campaign, the Kenan Trust felt it fitting to strengthen the cultural life of the University – and what better way than to offer full scholarships to the most talented artists to study here.”

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22 UNC students to study in Asia as Phillips Ambassadors

Carolina’s first class of Phillips Ambassadors – 22 students in 14 different study-abroad programs – studied in Asia this summer or will do so this fall.

Chosen from among 98 applicants, the students were awarded scholarships for study in China, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, Vietnam and Japan.

High Point businessman Earl N. “Phil” Phillips Jr. created the Phillips Ambassadors Program with a generous gift to UNC-Chapel Hill’s College of Arts and Sciences last fall. He calls Asia “an increasingly vital region of the world.” Phillips’ gift created an endowment to provide scholarships for up to 50 undergraduates annually.

A quarter of the scholarships are reserved for qualified undergraduate business majors and minors from Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.

For more information about the Phillips Ambassadors Program, visit http://studyabroad.unc.edu/phillips/index.cfm.

The new Phillips Ambassadors are listed below, alphabetically by N.C. hometown and then by state. Their Asia destinations, terms and academic majors also are listed.

North Carolina participants:

Carrboro
Alvaro De La Iglesia, China, fall 2007, Asian studies

Cary
Vishwan Pamarthi, China, summer 2007, biology

Chapel Hill
Nathan Guerin, China, 2007-2008, international and area studies, music
Cayley Pater, India, summer 2007, linguistics, religious studies

Charlotte
Melissa Brzycki, China, fall 2007, political science
Thomas McElwee, Vietnam and Hong Kong, summer 2007, Spanish

High Point
Sarah Jacobs, China, summer 2007, international and area studies

Jacksonville
Rebecca Archer, Japan, summer 2007, Asian studies

McLeansville
Ramsey Cardwell, China, fall 2007, chemistry, Asian studies

Raleigh
Amelia Black, India, summer 2007, communication studies

Roxboro
Derek Paylor, China, summer 2007, international and area studies, Asian studies

Siler City
William Hobbs, Hong Kong, 2007-2008, economics

Statesville
Elizabeth Ramsey, India, summer 2007, peace, war and defense

Waxhaw
Adam Schaffernoth, China, summer 2007, business administration

Winston-Salem
Angela Kale, Singapore, fall 2007, business administration
Timothy Shelburne Jr., China, summer 2007, mathematics, music

Out-of-state participants:

California
Lynnette Miner of Irvine: Korea, summer 2007, political science, economics

Colorado
Habib Yazdi of Boulder: India, summer 2007, communication studies

Florida
Katherine Saulpaugh of Orlando: India, summer 2007, English

Maryland
Julia Furlong of Baltimore: India, summer 2007, business administration

New Hampshire
Callie Brauel of North Conway: Hong Kong, summer 2007, business administration
Matthew Hamel of Chocorua: Hong Kong, summer 2007, business administration

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UNC’s Knight Chair will refocus on the economics of digital media, journalism

The Knight Chair Carolina’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, a professorship created in 1991 by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, is being expanded to embrace the digital age with a new title and an endowment boost of $200,000.

Now called the Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics, it will focus on 21st-century economic models that will preserve and improve the ability of journalists to produce news in the public interest.

Changes in technology and business have weakened traditional news models during the past two decades – a trend that the current Knight Chair at Carolina, the renowned journalist and scholar Phil Meyer, has detailed in his recent book, The Vanishing Newspaper. Meyer will retire next year.

The new Knight Chair, who will be selected after a national search, will help create entrepreneurial projects designed to keep news operations profitable. This professor also will create innovative courses and practical research, all available to others on the Internet, and work with other Knight Foundation grantees on seminars and programs on journalism and digital media economics.

The Knight Foundation, created in 1950, has invested nearly $300 million to advance journalism quality and freedom of expression.

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Mellon Foundation gives $2.5 million for medieval and early modern studies

A $2.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York will enable UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences to extend the global reach of the medieval and early modern studies program beyond the European borders of the medieval and early modern world to China, Southeast Asia and Japan, the Caribbean and Latin America.

Currently, more than 60 faculty members across 10 departments in the humanities and fine arts teach and conduct research about the period, which stretches in its European context from the fall of the Roman Empire through the 18th century.

UNC will use $1 million of the grant to endow the Mellon Distinguished Professorship of medieval and early modern studies, with help from the N.C. Distinguished Professors Endowment Trust Fund.

With support from the provost’s office, additional faculty will be hired to teach and research new areas of medieval and early modern studies. Faculty and graduate students’ research and teaching, as well as graduate student recruitment, will benefit from $1.5 million from the foundation. The college will provide additional support for undergraduate studies.

E. Jane Burns, Ph.D., Druscilla French distinguished professor of women’s studies, called the gift the most exciting intellectual development in medieval studies at UNC since she joined the faculty in 1977.

“This generous grant will enable us to study and teach the medieval and early modern periods from the broadest perspective, taking into account the richness and diversity of people, places and cultures across the globe,” said Burns, who explores gender, sexuality and material culture in medieval texts.

International conferences will be planned, thanks to the Mellon grant. A new lecture series, open to the public, will focus on prominent locales in the medieval or early modern period that served as crossroads — sites of vibrant intellectual and cultural commerce.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is a private foundation that makes grants in the areas of higher education and scholarship, scholarly communications, research in information technology, museums and art conservation, performing arts, and conservation and the environment.

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C. Felix Harvey III gives $2 million to advance University priorities

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C. Felix Harvey III

Carolina has received a commitment of $2 million from C. Felix Harvey III to support and advance a broad spectrum of University priorities.

Harvey, 87, of Kinston, N.C., is chairman of Harvey Enterprises & Affiliates and founder of the Little Bank Inc. He made the gift, along with his family, to acknowledge the University’s significance to them and the important role Carolina has played in the lives of five generations of the Harvey family.

“I am extremely fortunate to be able to express my gratitude in this meaningful and lasting way,” Harvey said. “Personally, UNC expanded my horizons at a very influential time. By broadening my perspective, Carolina taught me that there are many possibilities and opportunities in life. It is our collective hope that this gift will do the same for future generations of students.”

The gift creates an endowment to fund the C. Felix Harvey Award to Advance Institutional Priorities. Unlike most scholarly awards at Carolina, the Harvey Award is not directed to a specific area but will support a variety of institutional initiatives, among them undergraduate education, community engagement, research and economic development in the areas of medicine, business, science, the humanities, law and the environment.

“As he did during his student days, Felix has brought his pioneering spirit to Carolina in establishing the Harvey Award,” Moeser said.



In acknowledging the gift, UNC Chancellor James Moeser praised Felix Harvey’s innovative vision.

“As he did during his student days, Felix has brought his pioneering spirit to Carolina in establishing the Harvey Award,” Moeser said. “Throughout his life, he has steadfastly pursued opportunities and built a framework for success that inspires and encourages each of us to reach higher. We are grateful to Felix and the Harvey family for the tremendous opportunities this endowment makes possible.”

Members from five generations of Harveys have earned UNC degrees, including Felix and Margaret Harvey’s daughters Leigh Harvey McNairy and Sunny Harvey Burrows, sons-in-law John McNairy and Lee Burrows, and several grandchildren. Felix Harvey graduated in 1943 with a degree in commerce. He joined the Navy midshipman school and then served on a PT boat in the southwest Pacific theater during World War II.

Harvey began working at age 13 following his father’s death at just 38. Harvey worked through college and returned to the family business after the war. In 1950, at age 29, Harvey became president and CEO of the business upon the death of his uncle, Leo H. Harvey (UNC Class of 1920) and steadily expanded its endeavors.

Harvey has served UNC in many ways: as a trustee, as a member of the Bicentennial Campaign Steering Committee and as president of the Educational Foundation and the UNC Business Foundation. He also helped raise private funding for the construction of Carroll Hall. For his service, Harvey earned the General Alumni Association’s Distinguished Service Medal in 1995.

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