![]() ![]() “Research shows that the more exposure young folks have to visiting college campuses, the more likely they are to continue their studies after high school,” Carolina K-12 director Christie Hinson Norris says. “We’re filling a void and providing an opportunity for school kids around the state and beyond to learn more about Carolina and higher education.”Ĭarolina K-12, a Carolina Public Humanities program that extends the University’s resources to North Carolina’s educators, provided feedback throughout the process and suggested opportunities for the tour to also help introduce vocabulary terms and encourage active listening. “We are not aware of other Universities providing a resource like our tour,” Beatty says. They included questions to ensure that students are engaging with the material and created bingo cards of questions that are answered throughout the video. The Visitors Center staff began developing the tour in 2021 by adjusting its Sense of Place on-campus tour to focus on the younger audience. That goal sparked the center’s new Sense of Place school group video tour, which launched in May to provide a virtual tour of Carolina that introduces the campus’ history, traditions and research endeavors happening at the University. When school group visits to Carolina’s campus paused due to the pandemic, UNC Visitors Center director Rhonda Hubbard Beatty still wanted to give school children across the state the opportunity to learn about UNC-Chapel Hill and everything the University has to offer. Gillings School of Global Public Health. ![]()
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