BENEFACTORS

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

G. Munroe Cobey and Rebecca T. Cobey established the Cobey First Year Seminars Course Development Fund, which is used to support 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, and the Lupton First Year Seminar Trust Fund 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. 

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 2009-2010 were:

ENGL 089: Asian American Women’s Writing, taught by Jennifer Ho
HIST 062: Nations, Borders and Identity, taught by Sarah Shields
HIST 070: Gorbachev: The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Rise of the New Russia, taught by Don Raleigh

Finally, The Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative (CEI), which was seeded with a five-year, multi-million dollar 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 funding has created an impressive list of FYS:

AMST 057: Access to Higher Education; Rachel Willis
AMST 059: Yoga in Mondern America:  History, Belief, and Commerce; Jay Garcia
ART 050: 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 051: Organizing and Communicating for Social Entrepreneurs; Steven May
COMM 082: Globalizing Organizations; Sarah Dempsey
COMP 051: Technology-An Entrepreneurial Foundation; Diane Pozefsky
ECON 054: The Entrepreneurial Imagination: Turning Ideas into Reality;
Buck Goldstein
ECON 056: Contemporary Entrepreneurship in Asia & the West; Steven Rosefielde
EDUC 065: School Days/School Dzae: What’s School Got to Do with Getting an Education? Suzanne Gulledge
ENGL 069: Entrepreneurial Writing on the Web; Dan Anderson
ENGL 085: Economic Saints and Villains: The Entrepreneurial Spirit in Early English Literature; Ritchie Kendall
POLI 072: Entrepreneurship in Economic & Community Development;
Michele Hoyman
PLCY 061: Policy Entrepreneurship and Public-Private Partnerships;
Daniel Gitterman
RELI 089: Divine Value/Divining Values:  Creating and Exchanging Wealth in Religion and Commerce; Lauren Leve
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