Halden Levin (’25) is a first year student at UNC and member of the 2020-2021 Global Gap Year Fellowship. During her gap year, Halden learned Mandarin Chinese, engaged in Zen Buddhism, and supported the disability community. She studied Mandarin Chinese … Read more
Like most college students, going to school online in the midst of a pandemic wasn’t easy for Sonia Rao (’24). During her sophomore year at UNC in 2020, Rao was living off-campus in Chapel Hill, working for The Daily Tar … Read more
If you could dedicate a year between your sophomore and junior years to do public service where would you go? What would you do? In partnership with Meantime Coffee Co., the Campus Y is proud to support two Bridge Year … Read more
Due to COVID-19, the UNC Global Gap Year Fellowship (GGYF) will restructure its 2020-2021 programming and support nine Global Gap Year Fellows and two Bridge Year Fellows as they pursue domestic service opportunities. Although Fellows won’t be able to go … Read more
During his senior year of high school, Jake Gerardi applied to 25 different colleges and universities. It was never a question of if he was going to school—it was a question of where. But when he was accepted to the … Read more
On Saturday, July 20, the Campus Y’s newest cohort of Global Gap Year Fellows concluded their two-week Global Gap Year Institute with a presentation and celebration for family, friends, and the campus community. Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz opened the ceremony by … Read more
For immediate use (Chapel Hill, N.C. – Jan. 17, 2019) – Today the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced an exciting new partnership with Global Citizen Year that will help the University keep up with the growing demands of … Read more
Could you give a brief overview of your path to UNC? My parents and three sisters fled the civil war in El Salvador and migrated to Los Angeles about ten years before I was born. Right before my first birthday, … Read more
The Campus Y at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has selected ten 2017-2018 Global Gap Year Fellowship (GGYF) recipients. These eight, incoming first-year students and two rising juniors will defer a year of university enrollment to gain … Read more
Michelle Hugo is a 2016 Global Engagement Fellow who spent the summer working with Northern Uganda Medical Mission (NUMEM) in Pader, Uganda There is a very common Acholi phrase that roughly translates to “mountains and valleys don’t meet, but rivers … Read more
