History of the Corps

Launched with $12 million in funding from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, with additional support from the Lumina Foundation for Education, NCAC now serves more than 13,000 students in ten states, and plans to serve nearly 30,000 students in 2009.

Institutional partners include the University of Alabama, Brown University, the University of California at Berkeley, Franklin and Marshall College, the University of Georgia, the University of Illinois, Loyola College in Maryland, the University of Missouri-Columbia, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Pennsylvania State University, Tufts University / Massachussetts Campus Compact, the University of Utah, and the University of Virginia.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill serves as the national headquarters and the institutional home of the consortium.