GAA Programs and Outreach News

Joseph Cooley High ’76 and Kathleen Cullins High ’78 have endowed a scholarship to support Black students attending Carolina. The $300,000 gift will fund The Joseph Cooley and Kathleen Cullins High Scholarship, which will be part of the Light… read more

Visitors’ smartphones become time portals showing what was in buildings decades ago. read more

More than 200 students — and more than twice that many family members and friends — attended the GAA’s Official Class Ring ceremony at the George Watts Hill Alumni Center. read more

The GAA-sponsored group that plans and promotes Homecoming activities for students has received a national award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education read more

Alumni, Faculty Recall Momentous Change in Berlin Michael Martine ’91 had a front-row seat for history in the making. When the Berlin Wall began to fall on Nov. 9, 1989, he was sitting on top of part of it, his feet dangling as he looked… read more

Lee Scouten is a supervisor in the ticket office at Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, who in addition to being the nation’s third president, founded the University of Virginia. Scouten is a 1983 graduate of UVA, but his… read more

The world, and especially the United States, says UNC Professor James H. Johnson, is undergoing an unprecedented demographic transformation. “If you ignore [the changes], you ignore them at your own peril,” he said, “because there is… read more

In 1936, Carolina became the first major Southern university to go north and play football against a desegregated team. Eleven years later, the University of Virginia became the first major university in the South to host an integrated football… read more

The Blue Ridge Parkway is a 469-mile scenic roadway connecting the Shenandoah National Park in western Virginia to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in southwestern North Carolina. The parkway, which originated with the New Deal in the… read more