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The Morehead-Cain Foundation grants four-year scholarships at UNC to selected, motivated undergraduate students. Candidates are chosen based on their moral force of character, scholarship, physical vigor and leadership. Additionally, students in this program also receive funding for four summers to engage in outdoor leadership, public service, international research and private enterprise.
The John Motley Morehead Foundation was created in 1945, and the Morehead scholarship program was established six years later. In 2007, the program was renamed the Morehead-Cain foundation after a $100 million donation from the Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation. There are more 180 Morehead-Cain scholars.
In March, the Morehead-Cain Foundation donated about $400,000 to fund the Eve Marie Carson Carolina Scholarship, which is given to a top out-of-state student.
Facing increased tuition and a turbulent economy, the foundation, which gives out tens of thousands of dollars to more than 200 UNC students each year, opted to decrease class size.
A 2004 law giving out-of-state students on full scholarship in-state status for tuition purposes could be repealed, which would put an extra $7 million burden on UNC.Administrators say that if the legislature rescinds the law, the University could lack the funds to recruit the top quality out-of-state students it has in the past.
Seniors Libby Longino and Henry Spelman didn’t exactly hit it off when they met as freshmen in a poetry writing class.
“I didn’t really notice Libby, and she thought I was pretentious,” Spelman said.
Friends said Longino would come home after class and talk about a guy who the rest of the class couldn’t relate to.
Two UNC seniors, Libby Longino and Henry Spelman, were named 2010 Rhodes Scholars on Saturday.
The prestigious scholarship will provide full tuition, board and living expenses for the two to study at Oxford University for two or three years.
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