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.

38 Projects. 42 Counties.

Since 2019, UNC Rural has partnered with dozens of campus entities to expand ideas and collaborations between rural communities and Carolina. This work is supported by funding from the Office of the Provost and the School of Medicine.

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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

30 Projects. 39 Counties.

Since 2019, UNC Rural has partnered with dozens of campus entities to expand ideas and collaborations between rural communities and Carolina. This work is supported by funding from the Office of the Provost and the School of Medicine.

View Projects across N.C.

Health

Workforce

Environment

Arts and Community

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

“Growing up in West Virginia and North Carolina, my life has been shaped by the rural experience. Being a part of UNC Rural allows me to give back not only to the rural communities I am familiar with but also to a public institution that I care about deeply in UNC-Chapel Hill. I am a product of the UNC system, and I appreciate its prominent role in making North Carolina a wonderful place to live.”
Adam Sotak, MSW UNC Rural Associate Director

Impact

Resources

Stories

Future

Serving rural North Carolina by connecting communities with UNC-CH partners and resources.

UNC Rural

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