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Updating Carolina Next

Carolina’s leadership spent the past nine months revising the University’s strategic plan, Carolina Next: Innovations for Public Good in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and heightened racial tensions. This series provides an overview of how the strategic plan has changed and why.

  • Scenes featuring students studying on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on February 9, 2021. (Johnny Andrews/UNC-Chapel Hill)

    Ensuring student success

    As part of the Carolina Next strategic plan, the University is better preparing students to be successful in a data-driven world.

  • Championing civil discourse

    In a politically polarized era, the University has pledged to promote democracy in the state, the nation and around the globe as part of the Carolina Next strategic plan.

  • Global and growing

    As outlined in Carolina Next: Innovations for Public Good, the University builds on its strong international partnerships and an array of programs to guarantee access to a global education for all students.

  • Three students walk across campus near the Old Well.

    Community comes first

    As the top priority in Carolina Next: Innovations for Public Good, the Build Our Community Together initiative involves us all.

  • Bob Blouin and Lynn Williford

    Updating Carolina Next

    Last spring, University leaders reexamined several of the eight strategic initiatives in light of COVID-19 and heightened racial tensions. Bob Blouin and Lynn Williford discuss Carolina’s “living, breathing, evolving strategic plan.”

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