The UNC System Racial Equity Task Force will meet today to discuss feedback from a System-wide survey and virtual town halls and receive input on its draft recommendations. The meeting starts at 1 p.m. and will be live streamed on UNC-TV.
The UNC System Office officially honored the first two recipients of the recently established President’s Award for Excellence.
The UNC System is helping to kindle the thrills and chills that North Carolinians can enjoy from the safety of their own homes this Halloween … if they dare.
Several UNCW international studies students who missed out on the study abroad requirement due to the coronavirus pandemic will be able to graduate as planned, thanks to a virtual experience that is the next best thing to being there.
Some of the most exciting scientific work in North Carolina isn’t taking place in sterilized labs. It’s unfolding on trails and in backyards, conducted by K-8 children participating in The NC Arboretum’s ecoEXPLORE program.
85 UNC System research projects focus on treatment, community testing, and prevention of COVID-19, with the goal of providing new data and information to help lawmakers and policymakers guide the state’s pandemic response.
NCGrowth facilitates multi-institutional collaborations to help grow businesses and strengthen communities. This work was vital before COVID-19 struck. Now it’s absolutely critical.
The UNC System has just launched its new hotline to make it easier for any employee throughout the System to file a complaint about alleged misconduct.
The story of Miles Davis’ trumpet is a reminder that UNC System institutions and affiliates are much more than classrooms for instruction and labs for research. They are venues and galleries, exhibition spaces and public lecture halls. They are public resources where cultural knowledge is preserved, enjoyed, studied, and promoted.
Remote instruction can provide many students with access to some of these experiences. But for most, campus life offers the most comprehensive access to the learning and living experiences that lead to more fulfilling lives, research discoveries and medical breakthroughs, and a stronger North Carolina. That is why the UNC System has invested heavily in making its campuses safe places to teach, study, live, and work this fall.