Chapel Hill readies state plan -

UNC Tomorrow response due May 1

Global readiness

Implement more stringent foreign language requirements and offer cluster courses on global themes.

Create a Global Research Institute to bring international scholars to UNC-CH.

Expand Triangle partnerships and the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases.

Access to higher education

Further fund and expand Scholars' Latino Initiative.

Expand N.C. Reach, which helps foster children attend college and get a debt-free education.

Found an undergraduate certificate and degree completion program for nontraditional students to get a certificate for career-based courses that would count as college credit.

Create a college advising and support program to provide access to college in underserved N.C. regions.

Increased public education

Found a Public Education Collaborative to serve as a partnership between the university and the community to evaluate community needs and then meet them.

Carolina Teacher Scholar Program: an academy for scholars to receive enrichment courses and go back to their communities as leaders in teaching math and science.

Expand online learning.

Expand Career Jump-Start.

Economic transformation

Found a Center for Community and Economic Transformation to connect disparate initiatives to work on community projects.

Expand Launching the Venture, a Kenan-Flagler Business School program that helps student and faculty start businesses.

A UNC Classroom of Tomorrow will give the public access to resources and events through multimedia.

Health

The Center of Excellence for Training and Research Translation will do research beyond that of obesity and cardiovascular disease.

Increase the health work force.

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Environment

Found a Council for a Sustainable Environment to pool research on water and energy.

Make campus a "Living Lab" teach about sustainability.

University outreach

Expand the Faculty Engaged Scholars Program.

Found a UNC Center for Applied Public Policy Research to pool systemwide faculty research for nonpartisan policy suggestions.

Create Database for Public Service and Engagement.