Dear Carolina Community, We are pleased to share that after a national search, Leah Cox, a higher education leader with more than 30 years of experience, has been named our vice provost for equity and inclusion and chief diversity officer. … Read more

UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School senior Brianna Pinto ’22 was just 18 when she took a deep breath and gave a speech at the 68th FIFA Congress in Moscow in 2018. A star player, Pinto was representing the U.S. as part … Read more

Internal grants help University Libraries staffers put the values of inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility to work. Eight staff projects are the first to receive funding through the University Libraries’ new IDEA Action grant program. The grants enable employees to … Read more

When Candice Powell, director of the Carolina Covenant, says, “Each and every Covenant Scholar is an asset to our institution — not in spite of where they come from but because of where they come from,” she likely has students … Read more

While studying for her master’s degree in information science at UNC’s School of Information and Library Science, Nicci Gafinowitz ’16 (MSIS) met Eunice Sahle, associate professor and chair of the department of African, African American and diaspora studies. Like everyone … Read more

When she was growing up, Selina Shi threw away the Chinese tea eggs her grandmother made for her every day for lunch because a classmate once told her “they smelled weird and looked disgusting.” Being in the minority often means … Read more