Conservative Think Tank Puts Pressure on North Carolina’s Colleges
The John William Pope Foundation has been generous to the University of North Carolina. In 2011, for example, the foundation gave $3 million to help renovate the football stadium on the Chapel Hill campus — enough money to put Pope’s name on the academic-support center for athletes. Last year the foundation donated $1.3 million to the university’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center — enough to endow a professorship in cancer research and three fellowships for aspiring researchers.