Student Success

The Division of Student Success provides essential programs and resources that foster learning, academic success, and personal growth for students — both inside and outside of the classroom — who are enrolled in undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs. Our programs and resources challenge and encourage students to become compassionate and responsible citizens and leaders on the campus as well as in along local and global communities. We position all students for unmatched academic and career outcomes.

Featured Fund

UNC Student Success Fund

Provide support for the essential programs and services that enhance academic success and personal growth for every student enrolled at UNC Chapel-Hill. With your gift to the UNC Student Success Fund, you empower every student to achieve their full potential by providing flexible support where it’s needed most.

Initiatives

The Basic Needs Initiative

The Basic Needs Initiative seeks to ensure that all students have access to the resources needed to focus on their education and success at Carolina. Programs within this initiative take a holistic approach to student success, both inside and outside of the classroom, from financial literacy and education, housing and food security, to providing mini grants in times of emergency.

The Carolina Food Pantry Network

Provides funding for new and existing food pantries in schools and units across campus to ensure that every member of the Carolina community is food secure and has access to nutritious meals without barriers.

The Carolina Closet

The Carolina Closet removes financial barriers by providing UNC students with free professional clothing for interviews, internships, and first jobs. For many, attire costs can determine whether they pursue an opportunity. Your support helps students approach their futures with confidence and preparation rather than financial concern. Every donation advances access to career-readiness resources across campus.

Heels Care Network

The Heels Care Network builds on our culture of compassion and care at Carolina to make mental health resources easier to access for students, faculty, and staff, as well as to help our students’ families and our broader community serve as partners in this effort. 

Carolina Parents Fund

Student Success builds connections with Carolina families through engaging events, programs, and activities that help support our students and families and make a big place like UNC, feel a little bit smaller. Your gift to the Carolina Parents Fund will support all students and families at Carolina and help pave the way for new programs and resources that will benefit Tar Heels for years to come. 

Military and Veteran Student Success Center

The Military and Veteran Student Success Center (MVSS) welcomes veterans, active-duty military, National Guard members, reservists, dependents, spouses, and ROTC cadets to study, hang out, and meet other military-connected students. Through signature programs like Boot Print to Heel Print, the center provides resources students need to thrive academically, emotionally, and socially throughout their time at Carolina. 

LGBTQ Center

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Center works to foster a welcoming and inclusive environment for UNC-Chapel Hill community members of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions. The LGBTQ Center offers support and advocacy programs and services designed to address identity development, leadership development, and relationship skills development, educational programs that strengthen allyship and on-campus support for LGBTQIA+ folks, and community building through social and cultural events.

Departments