Real Heel Mentors
About: “Online students did substantially worse than students in the same face-to-face course: They earned lower grades, were less likely to succeed in subsequent courses, and more likely to drop out.” – Susan M. Dynafski, Brookings Due to the pandemic, … Read more
Remote Solutions for Remote Learning
About: Our Public Health Campaign was designed to help continue fostering an inclusive and safe Carolina environment during these unprecedented times. This community has nurtured us as students these past couple years and we wanted to help make the community … Read more
Route It: A Proposed Solution to Encourage Accessible Transit
About: The Fall 2020 Roadmap gives guidelines that limit each Chapel Hill Transit bus to a capacity of 10 people. From our experiences as UNC students, the Chapel Hill Transit buses were frequently at capacity, if not overcrowded, at all … Read more
Strengthening Our Campus Food Insecurity Response During COVID-19
About: Finding healthy meals can be difficult for college students – 25% of UNC undergrads were found to be food insecure in 2019. With the pandemic and job losses, this issue could worsen. To address this, UNC should first raise … Read more
SWYPE: Non-Invasive Contact Tracing for the UNC Community
About: Our idea is to develop a contact tracing campaign that benefits both the administration and the student body. Our program monitors student access to any university-affiliated non-classroom buildings. By mandating a swipe of their One Card while entering and … Read more
The E. C. H. O. Tour
About: The E. C. H. O. Tour is a digital experience used to educate various groups about the history of UNC. An extension of the Black and Blue tour, this interactive map takes the viewer around the university, highlighting key … Read more
UNC Immersive Learning Collective
About: Covid-19 has made clear the necessity for virtual education options that can simulate or even augment a classroom environment rather than serving as a cheap and ill-fitting replacement. Although we all hope that the age of Covid will pass … Read more