Talk Back

We have created an online forum at http://www.unc.edu/pse/unctomorrow-forum.php to address questions and issues about the Community-Campus Partnership for Tomorrow that will help us better plan our next steps. Here are some of the questions that are part of the forum discussion. As you contribute your own ideas and questions, we will post some of the responses here.

How should we define community? What process should we use for selecting the community? What should we use as the criteria? Should we work in more than one community as a part of the pilot? Respond
What will success look like at the end of our work with a community? What might it look like from the community perspective? What might it look like from the campus perspective? Respond
What process should we use for involving campus partners in this project? How do we involve people in the process of identifying the community’s interests? How do we involve people in helping to address community needs once they have been identified? Respond

The Community-Campus Partnership for Tomorrow

UNC Tomorrow

As Carolina developed its response to the UNC Tomorrow Commission’s report, we realized that if our broad-ranging expertise can offer individual responses to its six major policy areas — global readiness, access to higher education, public education, economic transformation, health and environment — then that same expertise should be capable of developing a comprehensive and more effective approach as well. The Community-Campus Partnership for Tomorrow is a commitment by Carolina to forge comprehensive and integrated partnerships with underserved communities in North Carolina. We have narrowed our choices to the most distressed counties as designated by the N.C. Department of Commerce, shown in blue on the map above.

The goal is to help them build capacity that will address their needs over time, while at the same time we strengthen our ability to reach across the silos that can characterize campus life and create new possibilities for more effective collaboration. Carolina has created an initial budget of $350,000 for this program through the internal allocation of existing resources.

We need your ideas and your support as we begin to plan how to approach this important pilot project that has become the signature piece of our UNC Tomorrow response. That is why we invited people from all over campus and beyond to a brainstorming session about the CCPT project on July 30 at the Friday Center.

That productive discussion will continue on this site in a new online forum (see links at right). Here we will address questions and issues about the project that will help us better plan our next steps. How will we define and choose a community? What does it meant to work in a community? What should be our level of commitment?

Through its teaching, research and public service, Carolina connects with the people of our state every day in ways that improve lives and build futures.

“A Community Engaged University” recognized by the
 Carnegie Foundation