News from the Tar Heel Bus Tour

2008

• Photos from the 2008 tour
• Classroom on wheels ready to roll for 11th year [University Gazette]
• On the road again [University Gazette]
• Bus tour introduces new Carolina faculty members to the state [News Services]
• Tar Heel faculty bus visits Hendersonville [Hendersonville Times-News]
• Carolina Connects daily radio updates
• School of Nursing Blog
• Center for Infant & Young Child Feeding and Care Blog Entry
• Ryan Thornburg's Blog

2007

• Photos from the 2007 Bus Tour
• Faculty tours boat facility [The Daily Reflector (Greenville)]
• On the road again: Tar Heel Bus Tour celebrates 10 years [University Gazette]

2006

• Photos from the 2006 Bus Tour
• Bus tour put challenges in front seat [The Chapel Hill News]
  
• Bus tour introduces new faculty to the Tar Heel state [University Gazette]
• UNC-Chapel Hill faculty get details about Guard initiative [The Dispatch (Lexington)]
• New UNC-Chapel Hill staff stop at UNC Charlotte for talk, tour [The Charlotte Observer]
• UNC, UNCC confab set for Thursday [The Charlotte Observer]
• UNC coming to Chimney Rock [The Asheville Citizen-Times]
• Community visit opens eyes [Fayetteville Observer]
• New UNC Faculty Visit Jackson Hamlet [The Pilot (Southern Pines)]
• History and education together [Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald]
• UNC professors get Lumbee schooling [The Fayetteville Observer]
• UNC's Tar Heel Bus Tour makes stop at OIC [The Rocky Mount Telegram]
• Tar Heel Bus Tour Ready to Cover North Carolina [Newswise]
• Reserve a spot for the 9th annual Tar Heel Bus Tour [University Gazette]

2005

• Photos from the 2005 Bus Tour
• New faculty, administrators at UNC tour state to understand its texture
• Tar Heel Bus Tour gets ready to hit N.C. roadways; new faculty will learn ways UNC benefits state
• Tar Heel Bus Tour to start journey by visiting Citizen-Soldier site
  

2004

• Photos from the 2004 Bus Tour

2003

2002

• No tour this year

2001

• Photos from the 2001 Bus Tour
• Tar Heel Bus Tour 2001 set to roll May 21
• Threads of Education (Gaston Gazette, 5/24/2001)
• UNC teachers learn about city (Fayetteville Observer Times, 5/23/2001)

2000

• Photos from the 2000 Bus Tour
• Bus tour reunites for Floyd relief

1999

• Photos from the 1999 Bus Tour
• New Tar Heels to learn about state, its culture and people, during UNC-CH’s third bus tour
• All aboard for third annual bus tour

1998

• Photos from the1998 tour
• Spotlight: The road best traveled - By Carol Pardun,
  Assistant professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication
• All Aboard the Tar Heel Bus Tour: A Surgeon’s Exposure to the State - by Timothy P. Bukowski, MD
• UNC-Chapel Hill road scholars travel North Carolina by bus to learn people, economy, issues
• 1998 Tar Heel Bus Tourists certain they will benefit
• Tar Heel Bus Tour to boost commitment to students, state

1997

• ALL ABOARD! The Tar Heel Bus Tour is ready to roll
• New professors hit the road to become true Tar Heels
• One bus ... 5 days ... 26 professors ... 1,226 miles
• Faculty trips cover Tar Heel 101

 

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CONTACT:
Linda Douglas, Director of Community Relations
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Campus Box 6225, 210 Pittsboro Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-6225
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email: linda_douglas@unc.edu