
Objective
Ensure Carolina positions all students for unmatched academic and career outcomes, by modernizing our infrastructure to optimize experiences while driving operational excellence.
Vision
Connect the dots across the student journey, creating a no wrong-door experience while continuing our promise to provide the nation’s strongest return on an investment in higher education.

Strategic Enrollment Management
Expands access and opportunity, attracting, enrolling and graduating a talented student body from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences who will become the next generation of leaders
Student Experience
Fosters co-curricular learning experiences that help students achieve their education, personal and professional aspirations. It will also concentrate and elevate our work around student health, well-being and belonging, taking a more coordinated and programmatic approach to supporting students as whole people.
Academic Excellence
Directly connects students’ academic experiences to life after Carolina, ensuring that degrees, experiential learning and skill development translate into meaningful post-graduate success.
Initiatives
AI at Carolina
Carolina uses AI to advance knowledge, health, opportunity, environment, government and quality of life in North Carolina and beyond.
Carolina Firsts
First-generation college students are integral to our campus culture, contributing greatly to our diversity and intellectual life.
Special Enrollment Programs
These programs include specific initiatives, agreements, and enrollment options that are outside the standard offerings or policies at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Special Enrollment Programs website
Student Affairs
We work daily in collaboration with academic programs to meet the needs of our students in the areas of Student Life, Health & Wellness, Leadership & Service throughout their time at Carolina.
Career Center
The Career Center helps undergrads and graduate students explore career paths, search for internships, and holds career and internship events.
Career Hub
A gateway to tailored resources and opportunities for students, alumni, faculty and staff career champions.
Interprofessional Education and Practice
Stimulates innovation among students, academics, practitioners, policymakers and entrepreneurs.
IPEP Model
Our Interprofessional Education and Practice framework supports the intentional engagement of students, faculty, and staff in interprofessional endeavors across campus.
Ideas in Action
Helps students gain the ability to think critically, work collaboratively and communicate persuasively.
Advising and Mentoring
The IDEAs in Action curriculum helps form graduates who have the capacities, tendencies, and habits of mind to approach the world with inquiry, investigation, evidence, judgment, and creativity.
Heels Care
The Heels Care Network provides a centralized hub for mental health resources, peer support, care referrals, and trainings for students, staff and faculty.

Carolina North
Carolina North is the University’s largest campus expansion since its founding, covering 230 acres of live, work, play and learning spaces. It is a generational investment in its academic mission, public impact and shared future with the Town of Chapel Hill.