Rural Community- Campus Partnerships
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a national leader in community-engaged scholarship. Carolina faculty, staff and students are part of community-campus partnerships in all 100 NC counties. UNC Rural supports the growing network of partners collaborating on rural community-led solutions.
Internal Advisory Board
Anita Brown-Graham, Chair, ncIMPACT Initiative, UNC School of Government
Margaret Barrett, Carolina Center for Public Service
Meredith Bazemore, Robert A. Ingram Institute
Lynn White Blanchard, Carolina Center for Public Service
Aaron Gard, UNC School of Law
Carolyn Fryberger, NCGrowth, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
Mark Holmes, Sheps Center for Health Services Research, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
Stephanie Kiser, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy
Tyler Mulligan, UNC School of Government
Gary Nelson, UNC School of Social Work
Bill Romani, Innovate Carolina
Meg Zomorodi, Robert A. Ingram Institute
Health
- Chatham County Food Hub
- Developing the Buncombe Academic Health Department
- Disinhibited Eating and Cardiovascular Health in Rowan County Police Force
- Freedom Organization Tarboro Community Garden
- Health Promotion in Rural Northeastern North Carolina
- Healthy Resilient Youth
- Helping Rural Pharmacists with Buprenorphine Dispensing Barriers
- HOPE Alternative Learning Program
- MAPSCorp 2.0
- PEACE of Mind
- Reducing Stigma, Saving Lives
- Robeson Parent 2 Parent
- Rockingham Mobile Market
- Sexual Health Equity in the Intellectual/Developmental Disability Community
- Supporting Child Mental Health in the Robeson Lumbee Community
- Through the Lens of Recovery: Photovoice Initiative for Healing
- Whole Together Robeson
- Youth LEAD (Learning & Empowering through Agriculture for Development)
Workforce
- Engaging Pharmacy Students at Conetoe Family Youth Summer Camp
- From Bertie County to Carolina: Expansion of Project Uplift
- School of Education MAT Alumni Needs Program
- Supporting Data and Storytelling of Rural Our State, Our Work Teams
- Teaching the Tar Heel Bus Tour: Racial Literacy Curriculum
- Unheard Voices: Supporting Transition to Adulthood for Foster Youth
Environment
- Anderson Community Group
- Citizen Science Biodiversity Monitoring on Grandfather Mountain
- ECUIPPing Warren County Youth for EMPACT
Arts and Community
- Collaborative Mapping of Community Spaces in Princeville
- Preserving the Historical Record of a Pivotal Lumber and Railroad Town Belhaven
Key Priorities from Rural Community Conversations
Affordable Housing
Childcare
Transportation
"Carolina’s community-campus partnerships across the state are a constant inspiration for me. I'll never forget the day I visited the UNC Farm at Penny Lane and the future Tiny Homes Village in Pittsboro, a transformational collaboration improving lives through mental health programs and affordable housing. I’m proud to be part of an institution and team that serves to support rural North Carolina’s vitality and all its people.”
Gabby Diekmann
UNC Interprofessional Health Initiatives Communications Specialist
Impact
Resources
Stories
Future
Serving rural North Carolina by connecting communities with UNC-CH partners and resources.
UNC Rural
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