University Development News

UNC’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media will be home to an executive-in-residence program honoring Frank A. Daniels Jr. ’53, the longtime president and publisher of The News & Observer. read more

Bank of America has given $250,000 to UNC to create a scholarship endowment fund for military families. The fund will provide scholarship support for military families through the University’s Red, White and Carolina Blue Challenge. read more

Florence Fearrington ’58 has donated nearly 4,000 books and objects valued at $6.2 million to University Libraries, where they will become part of the Wilson Special Collections Library. read more

The Kenan-Flagler Business School is planning a building expansion that will enable it to grow its undergraduate program by at least 50 percent, supported by the school’s largest-ever gift from an individual. read more

The Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation has given what the athletics department and the Rams Club call the largest-ever donation to Carolina athletics. read more

The indoor football practice building and adjacent outdoor fields and a new support program for football players will bear the name of William J. Koman Sr. ’56. read more

The gift is from Don Stallings ’60 and Billie Stallings, who also funded the Stallings-Evans Sports Medicine Center that opened in 2010. read more

An anonymous donor has set a $10 million challenge to support UNC’s Morehead-Cain Scholarship. If met, the Give Together Scholarship Challenge will be the largest single monetary gift ever made to the program by one of its alumni. read more

Walter Hussman Jr., a 1968 graduate of Carolina’s journalism school, has put his deep faith in the profession to work for the 69-year-old school with a $25 million gift that has renamed it the Hussman School of Journalism and Media. read more