UNC-Chapel Hill announced the creation of a new scholarship for undergraduates studying the humanities, after sharing news of a major investment by an alumnus on Tuesday.
Stephen Israel, a former vice chairman of the consulting firm Korn Ferry and UNC graduate in the class of 1966, gifted $10 million to the university with the goal of creating a new scholarship to reward students pursuing or exploring majors in English, comparative literature, classical archaeology, history, philosophy, religious studies and more.
The program, named the O.B. Hardison Scholarship, is in honor of the late UNC professor and Renaissance scholar whose courses Israel says changed his life.