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The University is currently operating under Reduced Campus Services and Operations due to COVID-19

Diversity and Inclusion

At Carolina, diversity and inclusion are about building understanding across differences, creating conditions to ensure the equitable educational and social benefits of diversity and cultivating an inclusive and supportive environment for undergraduate, graduate and professional students, faculty and staff – where every person feels valued and has an opportunity to add value.

Diversity News

  • Summer Programs Go Virtual at Carolina

    With the University’s COVID-19 closure, the organizers of summer programs at Carolina — from coursework for both graduate and undergraduate students, to support from Campus Wellness, the Writing Center, Learning Center and University Career Services, to outreach programs Project Uplift and Uplift PLUS, to the Chancellor’s Science Scholars — have had to redefine what it means to offer “hands-on” experiences by shifting quickly to a virtual model.

  • Women's History Month

    More than 11,000 women are enrolled at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill today, making up more than half of the student body. That wasn't always the case. Take a closer look at how women’s history progressed at Carolina.

  • Building community through food

    As part of the University's celebration of African American Heritage Month, Carolina Dining Services and the Black Student Movement hosted a Mama Dip’s takeover at Chase Dining Hall.

Diversity Events

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    University Research Week is an annual celebration of Carolina’s research excellence and an effort to increase participation by students, of all levels, in research activity. Through multiple unique virtual events, the campus community will become more familiar with our world-class research and the strategic initiatives that make Carolina one of the top research institutions in the world.

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    The 2020 Thomas Wolfe Lecture, hosted by the department of English and comparative literature, will be Tuesday, October 6.

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    The Persian studies program presents this symposium as a series of panels as an attempt to provide a safe space for public discussions of the nuances around discourses of love and desire in modern Iran, challenging and contributing to the dominant discourses on key topics.