CAMPUS SPACES & FACILITIES

Invest in the spaces that bring Carolina to life — where students learn, researchers discover, patients heal and community thrives.

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Building for the future

Carolina is proud to be the nation’s first public university. With a campus that has grown and evolved for more than 230 years, we face the unique challenge of blending the future with the past. Our charge is to create spaces that honor this history while advancing Carolina’s mission as a forward-looking institution of global stature. Over the next decade, Carolina will expand undergraduate enrollment, launch new schools and academic programs and reimagine key campus spaces. Achieving this bold vision requires investment in the University’s facilities and infrastructure.

Shaping the Carolina experience

Your gifts, paired with public investment, serve as the catalyst and force multiplier for projects that shape the Carolina experience for generations to come. Which area speaks most to you?

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Enhance learning

Give students and faculty modern classrooms and collaborative spaces equipped to support today’s learning and tomorrow’s innovations.

Accelerate discovery

Help keep Carolina at the forefront of discovery by providing faculty and researchers with the labs, facilities and resources they need to drive breakthroughs for the future.

Live well

Support student health, well-being and success by enhancing the residence halls, student support spaces and recreation facilities that help Carolina students thrive.

Foster community

Create welcoming outdoor and shared spaces that bring people together and inspire connection across campus.

Elevate the arts

Strengthen creativity at Carolina by supporting the studios, performance spaces, art museums and maker spaces that help the arts flourish.

Reimagine campus

Help shape the future of Carolina by rethinking and renewing campus spaces to meet the needs of a growing University and state.

New and improved places and spaces

Drone footage shows a transformed campus, highlighting the 16 major building and renovation projects that are complete or in the works thanks to gifts made during the Campaign for Carolina.

Your gifts in action

New and improved spaces across UNC-Chapel Hill are helping students thrive in academics and athletics, supporting faculty teaching and discovery and strengthening connections between campus and community — all thanks to the generosity of donors like you.

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Build the spaces where Tar Heels thrive.

Make a gift to create inspiring places for learning, discovery and community, shaping the Carolina experience for generations to come.

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MPSC: Morehead Planetarium and Science Center Fund

Provides support needed to expand outreach across North Carolina and offer increased hours and free experiences to Carolina students.

Ackland Art Museum

Provide support for the Ackland's core services: exhibitions, educational outreach, collection conservation, research and free admission.

Capital Improvement and Renewal Fund

The Capital Improvement and Renewal Fund provides support for capital improvement and renewal projects that expand, renovate, enhance and preserve University facilities and campus spaces.

Stone Center Art Fund

Provides support for the visual arts programs and initiatives in the Brown Gallery and other spaces in the Stone Center building.

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