During its general meeting on Monday, the Faculty Executive Committee discussed faculty concerns and feedback on the special committee report by the American Association of University Professors, which criticized the UNC system.
Read More »UNC will require a new general education curriculum known as IDEAs in Action for incoming first-years and transfer students who enroll at the University in the fall of 2022. The new curriculum will require students to take First-Year Foundations courses that are designed to help students navigate through the transition to the college environment. The IDEAs acronym emphasizes that students identify pressing questions and problems, discover ideas, evidence and methods that inform these questions, evaluate those ideas and act on the basis of these evaluations.
Read More »For Tar Heels wanting to stay active during their first-year on campus, Campus Recreation provides a variety of classes, activities and events focused on stimulating wellbeing, enjoyment and learning for the entire University community.
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The four winning teams in the UNC and N.C. A&T Looking Forward Pilot Research Program were announced and acknowledged for their research addressing complex issues facing North Carolinians last week. The initiative was co-created by Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz and N.C. A&T Chancellor Harold L. Martin, Sr. and launched in January 2022. The winning teams from those four priority areas received $200,000 in funding over the course of two years. The initiative is funded by the chancellors’ office at each University and by the UNC Lineberger Cancer Center.
Read More »A $65 million grant was awarded to the Gillings School of Public Health by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). The grant will be used for an Antiviral Drug Discovery Center that will work to combat future pandemic-level viruses.
Read More »The University held a ceremony Friday to celebrate the renaming of two UNC buildings after prominent campus community figures. Hortense McClinton was UNC's first Black faculty member, while Henry Owl was the first American Indian to enroll at the University.
Read More »The new trails are part of a three-phase plan that began in the fall of 2019 and will span about 4 miles total after completion.
Read More »At its Wednesday general meeting, the UNC Employee Forum spoke about employee work schedules, the new University partnership with the Jed Foundation and the Diversity Climate Survey.
Read More »The program operates Sunday through Thursday from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m, and stretches to locations both on and off campus, including the Lark and Union apartment complexes.
Read More »As the spring semester begins, students are navigating the return to both in-person and virtual classes.
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