The Morehead-Cain Foundation is seeking driven, courageous, and curious leaders interested in embracing new and unknown experiences and cultivating a legacy of positive impact on their communities and beyond.
The Morehead-Cain is a four-year, fully funded educational experience for students of the highest caliber. It is so much more than tuition and room and board at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We set your potential free. We offer life-changing summer enrichment and Discovery Fund experiences. Immersion in a dynamic student body at a world-class university. And lifetime connection to an unparalleled community of Morehead-Cains scattered across the planet.
Who do you aspire to be? Are you willing to commit yourself to superior effort, industry, and responsibility? Are you ready to add your mark to the Morehead-Cain legacy?
The benefits of making such a commitment are practically limitless.
What we’re looking for
- An ability to influence, energize, and inspire others to work together to make an impact
- Courage, humility, integrity, and perseverance
- A lifelong desire to learn and share newfound knowledge and inspiration with others
- Dedication to collaboration, wellness, and persistence
What you’ll do
- Embrace new adventures and meaningful risks that will stretch you beyond your comfort zone
- Challenge convention, spark conversations, and pursue answers to the most puzzling issues of our time
- Strive for a deeper understanding of your own strengths and weaknesses, values and beliefs, convictions and worldview
- Celebrate what’s needed to navigate obstacles, adapt to a changing world, and try new strategies to accomplish your goals
- Use your gifts and abilities to the fullest to better your community and the world
- Champion integrity and celebrate teamwork, giving more than you expect to get
- Thrive in Carolina’s academically rigorous environment
- Set the proper tone for leadership and integrity on campus
- Encourage others through persistent joy, humor, and positivity
- Accelerate your life experience
What you’ll receive
- Lifetime membership in a community of leaders, thinkers, and explorers who are ready to offer their support, mentorship, and guidance
- A fully funded education at one of the world’s finest universities
- The freedom to chart your own course and apply your talents in any way you wish
- Summers packed with transformational experiences around the world
- The unwavering support of an experienced and professional staff
- An undergraduate education filled with exceptional opportunities and experiences without peer