柏油之踵巴士之旅将于本周推出

A week after the University celebrated Carolina’s service to North Carolina at University Day, 75 Tar Heels will experience it firsthand in a journey across the state: the 2023 Tar Heel Bus Tour.

Fifty-three Carolina faculty members and 22 senior administrators, 代表13所学校和53个校园单位, 星期三将从星期五中心出发吗, 10月. 18. 两辆公共汽车, 一个去东方，一个去西方, 将在19个县停靠21站, 覆盖面积超过1,000英里总里程. The participants will learn about Carolina’s partnerships across the state and hear from North Carolinians about their communities’ needs and how Carolina can help address them.

东部的公共汽车将开往海岸. 在莫尔黑德市, participants will board UNC Institute of Marine Sciences vessels and learn how the institute is addressing the challenges facing North Carolina’s coastal communities.

西线公共汽车最远能开到广州, where the Pactiv Evergreen paper mill closed after 115 years of operation. 他们将与NC Growth会面, a partner of the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, to learn about economic development plans to help the community recover.

林恩·布兰查德, the director of the Carolina Center for 公共服务, has seen Carolina’s resources help in communities like Canton before.

“There is a lot of potential in what Carolina can do with these strong community partnerships,布兰查德说. “We can offer expertise but always in partnership with the community and being responsive to what they need. On the tour, we hear we hear directly about how Carolina has really made a difference.”

财政大臣Kevin M. Guskiewicz welcomes the strong connections the annual tour builds. “The Tar Heel Bus Tour is an opportunity for administrators and faculty to see the towns and communities our students call home and witness first-hand the challenges and opportunities across the state of North Carolina,古斯凯维奇说. “I look forward to the connections that our faculty and staff will make on this year’s bus tour, and how these partnerships and new-found perspectives will impact our teaching, 我们的研究, 以及我们对国家的更好服务.”

Dr. 玛丽·莉娜:好极了, an assistant professor in the 吉林斯全球公共卫生学院, 我将乘坐西线公共汽车. She’s looking forward to the opportunity to learn more about the state she serves. “了解我的学生来自哪里, going to where they’ve grown up and seeing their community is going to be invaluable for my teaching and mentorship,”她说。.

作为一名吉林斯校友，现在是教职员工, Excellent appreciates the chance to learn more about how her work may contribute to pressing public health issues facing the state and how she and her students can “give back” to North Carolina. Excellent anticipates building relationships with other faculty members, which will enable her to serve North Carolinians in new ways.

“I’m excited about this unique opportunity to interact with a group of people who share the same vision and same commitment of service to the state,”她说。. “I strongly value and appreciate interdisciplinary work, 所以我期待着建立这些联系.”

Chancellor Michael Hooker launched the Tar Heel Bus Tour in 1997. It was later paused for over a decade before Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz revived it in 2019. Blanchard encourages tour participants to use the opportunity to listen carefully and learn from the people of North Carolina. After the 2019 tour, she said: “I grew up in North Carolina, and every tour I learn something new.”