Z Capital Partners and its President and CEO, James Zenni, Jr. have given the Kenan-Flagler Business School a three-year, $100,000 grant to improve private equity education in hopes of providing undergraduate and MBA students in that field with better jobs.

The grant will provide multiple programs that will reward hard-working business students in private equity.

One of the programs will bring in more private equity professionals on campus and arrange for more opportunities for students to visit firms. The Alternative Investments Conference, a student-run conference that will include professionals in private equity education, students and practitioners, will be open to those interested in the industry. The grant will also allow for a database that will record Kenan-Flagler alumni, faculty and staff actions in the private equity realm.

Business students will be selected by faculty and student leaders to participate in the programs.

For more information, contact Z Capital’s Mark Semer: (212) 521-4800, or Kenan-Flagler’s Allison Adams: (919) 962-7235, aadams@unc.edu.