Academic & Strategic Plans
- Carolina Next: Innovations for Public Good was launched as the new strategic plan for the University in 2020. It aims to turn the University’s vision and aspirational goals into readily understood, significant, implementable, measurable, strategic initiatives and opportunities.
- The Campaign for Carolina: For All Kind aims to raise $4.25 billion by December 31, 2022, to foster an innovation generation prepared to lead the world to a better future through research and scholarship, example and ethos. This campaign is the largest in the Southeast and second largest among public institutions in the nation.
- Higher Expectations is the UNC System Office’s 2017-2022 strategic plan that focuses on access, student success, affordability and efficiency, economic impact and community engagement, and excellent and diversity institutions.
- Three Zeros Initiative was enacted in 2016 by then-Chancellor Carol L. Folt to move the campus toward water neutrality, zero waste and greenhouse gas neutrality.