Hundreds of Tar Heels are sharpening their language skills on campus by connecting with students abroad through Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) courses. UNC-Chapel Hill offered 30 COIL courses in the 2022-2023 academic year, including eight language courses. “The COIL pedagogy is … Read more

UNC-Chapel Hill is one of 19 higher education institutions in the U.S., Norway and Japan selected to participate in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Norwegian Panorama VE/COIL Partnerships Initiative. Five Carolina faculty and staff recently traveled to … Read more

UNC-Chapel Hill has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of State’s Increase and Diversify Education Abroad for U.S. Students (IDEAS) Program to develop and expand international education. The 34 U.S. colleges and universities that received grants this year … Read more

UNC-Chapel Hill has been selected to receive a grant from the 100,000 Strong in the Americas Fund as part of the 2022 U.S.-Andean Innovation Fund Grant Competition co-sponsored by the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs. With this … Read more

Carolina’s Collaborative Online International Learning program began in response to a global pandemic that paused international travel.  But after more than two years, COIL has grown into something much bigger and more impactful, forging educational partnerships throughout the world and diversifying the … Read more

For the first time since the start of the pandemic, a group of UNC-Chapel Hill senior leaders and staff traveled to King’s College London (KCL) in September. One of UNC-Chapel Hill’s longest standing strategic partners, the UNC-King’s Strategic Alliance was … Read more

The Office of the Vice Provost for Global Affairs (OVPGA) has appointed four faculty members to serve as Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) faculty fellows for the 2022-23 academic year. COIL is a flexible pedagogical approach that involves shared virtual … Read more

This fall participation in Study Abroad Office programs will reach 110% of pre-pandemic levels. By the end of the academic year, more than 2,000 Tar Heels are expected to study abroad—more than any previous year. When combined with steadily expanding … Read more

This Spring Carolina students participated in a new hybrid course model as part of BUSI 201, “Business in Europe,” in which they engaged first virtually and then in person, traveling to Hungary to co-present projects with students from Corvinus University … Read more

We at Research, Innovation and Global Solutions interviewed Le Minh Giang, Associate Professor in Epidemiology/Global Health, Hanoi Medical University; Vivian Go, PhD, Professor, Department of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health; Natasha Hughes, MPH candidate in Global Health, … Read more