UNC Tops 300 Miilion in Annual Fundraising

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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<p>UNC-Chapel Hill tops $300M in fundraising
UNC-Chapel Hill</p>

<p>Posted: Today at 6:53 a.m.
Updated: Today at 11:53 a.m.</p>

<p>CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's annual fundraising efforts have topped $300 million for the first time.</p>

<p>The News & Observer of Raleigh reports the school raised $300.3 million in the 2008 fiscal year.</p>

<p>It's the fifth straight record-setting year for the fundraising effort. The school raised nearly $251 million last year.</p>

<p>Fred Eshelman of Wilmington committed $10 million to the School of Pharmacy as part of a campaign that ended Dec. 31 and raised nearly $2.4 billion as part of UNC's effort to become the nation's leading public university.</p>

<p>The William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust provided $6 million to increase the number of students in the honors program at the College of Arts and Sciences.</p>

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<p>UNC is relentless about calling and asking for money. I hear from them several times a year, so often that I’ve considered changing my number (they agree to remove me from their call lists but never do.)</p>