New Nursing Education Building
At no time in history has the need to support the UNC School of Nursing been more urgent. As we face new and unprecedented global health crises, as our population ages, and as our health care workforce diminishes, nurses are becoming ever more central to the health and wellbeing of those in our communities.
As a leading provider of bedside nurses and nurse practitioners, educators, researchers and leaders devoted to public health and access, the UNC School of Nursing is uniquely positioned to serve the front lines of the most pressing health care challenges we face today.
Our critical barrier to further action? Resources.
Building the Future of Nursing
With partial funding from the state of North Carolina in hand, we now need private partners who understand the critical role a new facility will play in promoting the health and well-being of patients for years to come.
Check out our campaign booklet to learn how you can help us build a new home for Carolina Nursing. You can make a difference today but making a gift online or completing our commitment form.
Faculty Support
With a nationwide nursing faculty shortage, recruiting and retaining top faculty is an ever-increasing challenge. Endowed professorships enable us to attract the very best nursing faculty to Carolina and keep them here.
Endowed professorships hold a 10-year renewable appointment. This endowment supplements in critical ways a faculty member’s salary, benefits, and research support; honors past achievements; and offers encouragement to strive for continued health care discovery and breakthroughs that will benefit people in North Carolina and throughout our world.
Endowed Chair
$5,000,000 provides $250,000 annually
Endowed Professorship
$1,000,000 provides $50,000 annually
Current Endowed Professorships –
- Beerstecher-Blackwell Distinguished Professorship
- Carol Morde Ross Distinguished Professorship
- Elizabeth Kemble Distinguished Professorship
- Frances Hill Fox Distinguished Professorshi
- Helen W. & Thomas L. Umphlet Distinguished Professorshi
- Jane Sox Monroe Professorship in Nursing
- Melissa and Harry LeVine Family Professor of Quality of Life, Health Promotion and Wellness
- Sarah Frances Russell Distinguished Professorship
- Zucker Family Distinguished Professorship (vacant)
Student Support
In addition to the competition for elite faculty members, Carolina Nursing also competes with other schools of nursing for the best students. Often, the most critical factor in attracting the very best students to UNC and the profession is financial assistance.
Through the generosity of alumni and friends, each year we offer 250 scholarships totaling ~$1.5M.* But with 600 students total, there remains a great deal of unmet need.
Scholarships offer students the opportunity to pursue their nursing education regardless of financial need. Students in all programs at all levels, from undergraduate to graduate, benefit from scholarship support, removing barriers to choosing nursing as a career, as well as filling critical gaps in the nursing shortage.
*AY2023-24 figures
Establishing an endowed scholarship allows you to name a fund that will support Carolina Nursing students in perpetuity. To learn more about establishing a named scholarship at the School of Nursing, please contact Kelly Kirby, Associate Dean for Advancement, at Kelly_kirby@unc.edu.
Fund for Carolina Nursing: Student Scholarships
You can also support nursing scholarships with a gift of any amount that is meaningful to you by giving to the Fund for Carolina Nursing: Student Scholarships at go.unc.edu/nursingscholarships or by mailing a check, made payable to the UNC School of Nursing with scholarships in the memo line, to the address below:
The UNC School of Nursing
Attn: UNC Gift Processing Office
P.O. Box 309
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-0309
Thank you for supporting Carolina Nursing students!
Thank you so much for your generous support of the School of Nursing, and for investing in my future and the futures of my classmates! I will be starting my career as a nurse in the Newborn Critical Care Center at UNC this summer. Your support has helped me get here and means more than I can say.
Chloe Boyd, BSN ’20
I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to you for making the Linda Waring Matthews Research Fund possible. Her memory will continue to live on in the work supported by this scholarship. As an oncology Nurse myself, I know too well the impacts of cancer on a community and I am humbled by your generosity and inspired by her legacy. I am a 4th year PhD student student and my dissertation study focuses on the experience of informal caregivers of advanced cancer patients, specifically those receiving an allogeneic bone marrow transplant.
Kelly Tan, BSN ’16, PhD ’21, 2019–2020 recipient, The Linda W Matthews Research Fund
With immense gratitude I thank you for my award. It is an honor to have been selected, not only for the monetary contribution, but more for the recognition of the great profession of nursing. It is my goal to continue the great tradition of Carolina Nursing wherever my career takes me and to make you proud that you support nurses.
Michelle Swinyer, MSN ’22