{"id":31613,"date":"2019-08-27T11:17:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T15:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=31613"},"modified":"2024-07-02T17:12:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T17:12:16","slug":"keohane-visiting-professor-magill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=31613","title":{"rendered":"Keohane Visiting Professor\u2019s fall residency to focus on philanthropy and the academy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sherry Magill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sherry Magill, former president\/executive director of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, will spend the fall 2019 semester at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University focusing on the issue of philanthropy and the academy.<\/p>\n

She will be on the UNC campus Sept. 9-20.<\/p>\n

Magill, the Nannerl Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor, will lead a variety of public events on both campuses with the theme: \u201cSouthern Summit on Philanthropy and the Academy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPhilanthropy and the Academy\u201d is part of Southern Futures at UNC, a pan-University initiative to bring together unrivaled southern expertise and resources for transformative impact on campus, in the state and across the South.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe opportunity of the Keohane Professorship allows us to gather together people from diverse perspectives to listen to and learn from each other,\u201d said Elizabeth Engelhardt, interim senior associate dean for fine arts and humanities and John Shelton Reed Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies. \u201cCommunity leaders, foundation thinkers and university participants who all live and work in the U.S. South and who have shared visions of the possibility and promise of southern communities are invited to this semester-long conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Together Duke and UNC will discuss how to connect the principal concerns of philanthropic foundations, higher education institutions and Southern communities. What are the missed connections and possibilities between these participants and institutions? What can they build if they work together?<\/p>\n

Magill served as president\/executive director of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, a private grantmaking foundation, in Jacksonville, Florida, from 1993 to 2018. Prior to joining the Fund’s staff in 1991, she served as vice president and deputy to the president of Washington College on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. She holds a bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degree from the University of Alabama and a doctorate in American studies from Syracuse University.<\/p>\n

The Keohane Visiting Professorship recognizes the contributions of former Duke President Nannerl Keohane and her collaboration with former UNC Chancellor James Moeser. September events, open to the public, will be on the UNC campus.<\/p>\n

The award was created in 2004 by then Chancellor Moeser and is funded by Carolina graduate Julian Robertson and his late wife, Josie, of New York (parents of Spencer, Duke \u201998 and Alex, UNC \u201901, Robertson) and the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust.<\/p>\n

Visit the \u201cSouthern Summit on Philanthropy and the Academy\u201d<\/a> for more details on September events and information on November programming, which will be on the Duke campus.<\/p>\n

See the slate of September events at UNC below:<\/u><\/p>\n

Schedule (subject to change):<\/strong><\/p>\n

*All events are open to the public; please note where RSVP is requested.<\/p>\n

First Residency (Sept 9-20)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Week One — Unfinished Business:\u00a0The Past and Future of the South<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sept 11, 9 a.m.:<\/strong> Public Forum: \u00a025 years in Southern philanthropy\u00a0<\/em>
\nDonovan Lounge, Greenlaw Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n