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Help students<br />

start strong<br />

at Carolina with a<br />

Summer Bridge<br />

experience<br />

S ince 1980, Summer Bridge has provided nearly 1,800 Carolina students<br />

with an introduction to college life and academic expectations. This<br />

seven-week residential program gives incoming students who may come<br />

from small or rural high schools—many without AP or college-preparatory<br />

courses—the opportunity to begin their first semester with college credit.<br />

Other students may have access to such courses, but are the first in their<br />

family to attend college. By participating in Summer Bridge, they begin college<br />

with academic credit hours in English, math and sometimes chemistry,<br />

knowledge about the resources available to them, and tools for<br />

successful academic strategies. They are ready to be Tar Heels.<br />

The Summer Bridge Program in the College of Arts and Sciences seeks private support to:<br />

• Increase the number of students enrolled in Summer Bridge each year, from 60 in 2010 to<br />

more than 100. More than 350 students were invited to apply to Summer Bridge in 2011.<br />

The demand for Summer Bridge far exceeds available funding.<br />

• Provide financial resources to ensure that students graduate on time and gain the most from<br />

their Carolina experience.<br />

• Honor the service of Carolyn. C. Cannon, who retired in 2010 as associate dean and director<br />

for academic advising, and whose service to Carolina included 11 years as director of Summer<br />

Bridge from 1987 to 1998.<br />

• Honor other outstanding Summer Bridge directors with gifts to support the program.<br />

Make a gift at our secure site at summerbridge.unc.edu.<br />

Click the “Give to Summer Bridge” button. For more<br />

information about giving options, call the Arts and<br />

Sciences Foundation at 919.962.0108.<br />

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