benefits and expectations

Benefits

The Morehead-Cain provides a full four-year scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that includes:

  • An annual stipend that covers full tuition and all other normal expenses, including student fees, housing, meals, books, supplies, travel, and miscellaneous

  • Laptop computers for all entering freshmen

  • A fully funded, four-year Summer Enrichment Program, beginning the summer before the freshman year

  • Discovery Fund grants of up to $8,000 total over the course of four years at Carolina to be used for educational opportunities

The total value of the scholarship over the four years is approximately $80,000 for in-state residents and $140,000 for out-of-state residents.

Scholars also benefit from the unwavering support of the staff of the Morehead-Cain Foundation. Each Scholar is assigned an individual staff member who is available for consultation on educational, career, and personal issues. The staff advisor also helps each Scholar customize his or her summer experiences to reflect the Scholar's individual talents, interests, and aspirations.

The Morehead Alumni, now numbering nearly 3,000 and flourishing in locations throughout the United States and the world, provide current Scholars with an extended family of friends, mentors, and contacts. Practically every day the Foundation staff helps arrange formal and informal mentoring relationships between Scholars and Alumni. Alumni offer Scholars Summer Enrichment Program experiences, mentoring, graduate school advice, and career opportunities.

  • Throughout the academic year, Alumni from a wide array of professions participate in the Alumni Speaker Series. Alumni meet with interested Scholars in small groups that allow one-on-one interaction.
  • In addition, the Alumni-in-Residence Program welcomes up to five Alumni at a time to campus. Each program has a theme and the Alumni who participate are experts in that particular field. Recent programs have dealt with international affairs and innovation and entrepreneurship. Alumni spend several days on campus participating in panel discussions, meeting with Scholars individually, and leading workshops.
  • Alumni are eager to mentor or offer advice to current Scholars about professional and post-graduate decisions. Alumni participate in Alumni Advisory Teams that are focused on a variety of topics, from applying to law, medical, or graduate school, to careers in many different fields. Scholars have a direct link to the Advisory Teams via the Foundation's custom-designed extranet, the M-C Network.

Expectations

Morehead-Cain Scholars must first discover and pursue their own passions and strengths and then impact campus life using their particular talents. They must do the things they love to do, and become enthusiastic leaders while doing them.

But most important is the lifelong challenge expected of a Morehead-Cain Scholar: to perpetually seek ways to give to whatever communities they become a part of—local, national, or global—and along the way, to continually discover new passions and strengths that will build enduring leadership skills.

The lifelong challenge is to create an extraordinary life.