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A team of UNC graduate students and their professor are working to understand the challenges UNC students are facing, and finding ways to help students build resilience and wellness.

Educators have found themselves adapting and working in settings that have distanced them from students and changed how they teach. Here, they share their thoughts and insights from the past six months

UNC has heeded a call of “Rowing Not Drifting” for more than a century through social, political and economic challenges. In 2020, the university responded to budget issues, a global pandemic and a racial justice movement as it focused on student success and worked to move forward with resilience and an enduring sense of community.

As UNC considers policy, cultural and systemic changes to address campus climate, conversations bring truth into focus.

Leaders have a great impact on the tone, culture, goals and vision of an organization. For each of the colleges and academic areas at UNC, the top leader is the dean, reporting to Provost Mark Anderson. Amid 2020’s uncertainty, three new deans joined the ranks at UNC

With campus closing down and reports of coronavirus ramping up, two small departments set about the Herculean task of helping faculty move from in-seat classes to remote learning

A new Ph.D. graduate shares his thoughts about UNC and describes how he felt about defending his dissertation online

When the decision was made to move classes online and send faculty and staff off campus to work remotely, the undertaking involved 11,000 students and 1,700 university employees increasing their technology use very quickly to a new level

As the stock market went through its acrobatic reactions to the coronavirus, students in UNC’s SAFF class took the volatile ride in stride — and gained real-world experience in the midst of a financial crisis