Ready or not, here we come!

By 2017, enrollment on the University of North Carolina campuses is projected to approach 300,000 total students. This would represent a 50% increase in enrollment and campuses are currently considering the best ways to address such growth. Ideas such as increased delivery of online courses, early high school programs and more collaborative partnerships with the community college system are being considered as proactive responses to the growing need for more seats.

What other creative approaches should the University consider? How are other states addressing similar trends in growth? What are your thoughts on growing the number of students we currently educate at the University? Can the University increase its present use of any available resources?

Your Needs, Your University

The goal of the University of North Carolina Tomorrow initiative is to produce a more proactively responsive University, focused on meeting the challenges of the state over the next 20 years. To achieve this goal, the initiative will focus on 3 questions:

1. What challenges facing our state do North Carolinians want the University to respond to?
2. How can UNC best respond to these challenges?
3. How can UNC sustain this focus over the long-term?

Challenges currently facing the state of North Carolina may or may not be unique to your region, so we would like to know what issues you face today and what issues you see coming down the pipeline – to which the University can respond. (We will address questions 2 and 3 at a later date.)