BENEFACTORS

The success of the FYS program has been greatly enhanced by wise and generous benefactors who share our vision for promoting the success of UNC first year students.

G. Munroe Cobey and Rebecca T. Cobey established the Cobey First Year Seminars Course Development Fund, which is used to support our Hospitality Grants and many of our Course Enhancement Grants.

J. Haywood Davis established the Archie K. Davis First Year Seminar Fund to provide undergraduates with unique access to outstanding professors who excel in both teaching and research.

James Holmes established the Elizabeth and James E. Holmes III First Year Seminar Enhancement Fund, and Kimberley Carroll King established the Kayce King First Year Seminar Enhancement Fund.  Both of these funds allow faculty to plan related out-of-class activities and experiences for students in the FYS Program in order to enrich their academic experience, foster connections with the community, build friendships, and broaden understanding.

The Jeffrey and Jennifer Allred Family Foundation established the Jeff and Jennifer Allred Initiative for Critical Thinking and Communication Studies, which is used to support the development of critical thinking and communication skills among students in the College of Arts and Sciences.  These funds allow us to offer three FYS each year named in honor of Jeff Allred’s mentor and friend, Joseph P. McGuire AB ’72.  The McGuire seminars for 2008-2009 were:

COMM 085: Think, Speak, Argue; Christian Lundberg.  Multiple sections of this popular course were offered in the Fall and Spring semesters.

John L. Townsend III established the John L. Townsend III First Year Seminars Fund, which is used to endow three FYS in English and History.  The Townsend seminars for 2008-2009 were:

ENGL 068: Radical American Writers: 1930-1960, Thomas Reinert
HIST 087: Jane Austen Then and Now, James Thompson & Inger Brodey
HIST 070: The Cotton States' Exposition and the New South, Theda Perdue

Finally, The Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative (CEI), which was seeded with a five-year, multi-million grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation through its Kauffman Campuses Initiative, supports the development of FYS designed to introduce first year students to entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial perspectives in science, economics, liberal arts and society.  CEI seminars for 2008-2009 were:

AMST 057: Access to Higher Education; Rachel Willis
ART 089: The Artistic Temperament; Jim Hirschfield
BIOL 053: Biotechnology; Jason Reed
BIOL 062: The Biology of Infectious Disease; Mark Peifer
BIOL 081: Biologists Entrepreneurs;Seth R. Reice
COMM 082: Globalizing Organizations; Sarah Dempsey
COMP 051: Technology-An Entrepreneurial Foundation; Diane Pozefsky
ECON 056: Contemporary Entrepreneurship in Asia & the West; Steven Rosefielde
ENGL 085: Economic Saints and Villains: The Entrepreneurial Spirit in Early English Literature; Ritchie Kendall
POLI 089: Entrepreneurship in Economic & Community Development; Michael Hoyman
RELI 068: Charisma in Religion, Science, and Poetry: Studies in the Entrepreneurial Imagination; Ruel Tyson
ROML 060: Spanish and Entrepreneurship; Darcy Lear
SOCI 058: Globalization, Work and Inequality; Ted Mouw