Leadership: You initiate. You get things done.

You influence, energize, and inspire others to work together to make a positive impact. You recognize leadership as more than titles held or roles played: it is about courage and action. 

Character: Integrity, humility, and generosity.

You always seek to do what is right, and you invest your time and talent into your community. You are thankful for your opportunities and aware of your limitations.

Scholarship: You live for opportunities to learn.

You are deeply curious, reveling in new ideas and different perspectives. You thrive in an academically rigorous environment.

Physical Vigor: You challenge your whole self: body, mind, and spirit.

When you compete, perform, or pursue a physically demanding challenge, you embrace the lessons learned through discomfort, discipline, persistence, and fair play. 

A Morehead-Cain is:

Bright

Energized by ideas, thoughtful, inquisitive, not defined by grades and test scores.

Collaborative

Thrives on a team, supportive, generous, values humanity, listens, and compromises.

Self-Aware

Conscious of personal strengths and limitations, open to criticism, accountable.

Brave

Persistent in the face of adversity, an adventurer, embraces “stretch” experience.

Purposeful

Leads with conviction and integrity, translates plan into action, follows through.

Empathetic

Connected to others, cares about the world, shows compassion and gratitude.

Optimistic

Positive and upbeat, has a sense of humor, resilient.

Original

Intrinsically motivated, authentic, seek creative solutions, an entrepreneurial spirit.

Our Community

Morehead-Cains are members of a special group—one that well understands the dedication that excellence demands. They have demonstrated a desire to use their gifts and abilities to the fullest. Success has been a natural outcome of hard work; failure has been a call to lead and to create new strategies.

But being a Morehead-Cain means much more than mere achievement. They share a set of characteristics that inspire growth—from without and from within.

 “The Morehead-Cain experience has built in me that eternal belief that life is an adventure.”

Cari Jeffries | Class of 2014