The George Watts Hill Alumni Center is a crossroads for faculty and alumni.

Completed in spring 1993 with 63,000 square feet of dining rooms, parlors, meeting rooms, offices and a library, the Alumni Center is the home to which alumni can always return. While the center is the home base for alumni, it also contains facilities that host Carolina activities, the General Alumni Association central office, and furnishings replete with North Carolina history.

The George Watts Hill Alumni Center is distinct from alumni association operations at many U.S. campuses. Its meeting rooms can accommodate two to 800 guests, and more than 100,000 people attend an event or dine in the center each year. The center is open to alumni, regardless of whether they are GAA members; other areas of the building provide the backdrop to GAA staff operations, with offices, conference rooms, storage and communications systems to facilitate the work of the GAA and Carolina Club employees.

In 1986 - after more than 25 years of attempts to raise money to build an Alumni Center - one of UNC's most prominent philanthropists, George Watts Hill ('22), pledged a challenge gift of $3.5 million. It was the highest amount that had ever been given to the university by a living alumnus. The pledge by Hill-who served as the GAA's treasurer for 35 years-in addition to funds already raised by an on-going Alumni Center Campaign and a $500,000 lead gift from the James M. Johnston Trust, started the project.