University of North Carolina

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill), founded in 1789, is the flagship campus of the University of North Carolina System and the oldest public university in the United States. A major research university, it became a defendant in Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina, the companion case to SFFA v. Harvard.

As defendant in SFFA v. UNC, became the public university through which the Supreme Court ruled that race-conscious admissions violate the Equal Protection Clause; historically significant as America's first public university; major research contributions across sciences, medicine, and social sciences.