A report by Rachel Keith of WHQR Public Media in Wilmington, North Carolina, says a longtime University of North Carolina Wilmington donor plans to move a scholarship endowment valued at approximately $1 million to Washington, D.C., HBCU Howard University, following changes tied to the UNC System’s diversity policies.
Linda Upperman Smith, whose family established the scholarship in honor of her father, the late Dr. Leroy Upperman, said the family intends to transfer the endowment rather than remove language that reflected the scholarship’s original purpose of supporting African American students.
According to WHQR’s reporting, university officials informed the family that the scholarship language would need to be revised to comply with the University of North Carolina System’s updated Equality Within the University of North Carolina policy…