Instructors use smaller classes and an intense schedule to immerse students in field trips, service learning and deep discussions.

We spoke with John Patrick, Adjunct Teaching Assistant Professor for the UNC Department of Public Policy about his enriching experience teaching at Dan River as a part of DLL’s Correctional Education Program.

At the most recent edX/2U University Partner Advisory Council meeting, Inside Higher Ed spent time with Todd Nicolet. Todd is the vice provost for digital and lifelong learning at the University of North Carolina. In their conversations, they found Todd to be both incredibly collegial and massively knowledgeable about the shifting landscape of higher education.

Religious studies Ph.D. student Jocelyn Burney relishes the public humanities aspect of her graduate work — from contextualizing a pottery exhibit in Carolina Hall to teaching the Hebrew Bible at a Raleigh women’s prison to supervising the work of undergraduate students at an archaeological dig in Israel.

Digital and Lifelong Learning is excited to collaborate with UNC’s Operational Excellence team and the Graduate School on a Credit Bearing Certificates project.

DLL’s Leadership Team will present this month at the UPCEA 2023 Annual Conference. UPCEA is the leading industry organization for professional, continuing, and online education in the higher ed space.

The Carolina and Chapel Hill community kicked off a week of celebrations in honor of the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. on Sunday night at the 38th annual University/Community MLK Jr. Memorial Banquet.

Miguel Jackson, Assistant Director of Marketing and Communications for Digital and Lifelong Learning, was invited to the NC AHEC Statewide Meeting: Celebrating 50 Years to present a lecture on marketing to multi-generational audiences and how to design and maintain strategic plans.

Carolina has helped Angela Nguyen realize her career and academic goals. At age 45, this first-generation college student will walk across the Winter Commencement stage, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in religious studies.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and 2U have partnered to create a new online master’s degree in applied data science available through Carolina’s new School of Data Science and Society.