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Carolina’s Residential Learning Programs (RLPs) gives you a unique, inclusive learning experience that connects classroom learning with residential living. You will enjoy all the usual advantages of living on campus in a residence hall, with the added benefit of living among a group of students who share your similar academic goals and interests. Program experiences are provided through collaboration with student, faculty, and staff partnerships assigned to the RLP. Your RLP experience lays a foundation for you to become better prepared to succeed during and after college because it broadens your perspectives and understanding of the world around you.

The requirements for participating in each RLP can vary; please look at each individual RLP page for their requirements (see the right-hand menu). If you still have general questions after reviewing the website, please reach out via e-mail to housing@unc.edu. Questions specific to an RLP can also be directed to the Community Director of the residence hall where the RLP is assigned.

Residential Learning Programs

First Gens: The First Generation Residential Learning Program (First Gen RLP) is an innovative, collaborative program that serves self-identified, first-generation students during their first year at Carolina. The First Gen RLP provides co-curricular activities, learning spaces, and opportunities to build relationships to supplement and enhance their Carolina experience.

BLUE: The BLUE Residential Learning Program (RLP) provides space and opportunity for innovation, creation, and collaboration. Students get to experiment, meet new people, and master concepts of entrepreneurial mindset through hands-on opportunity. This RLP is the residential component of the larger BLUE campus initiative that is available to the Carolina community through a partnership between BeAM, Carolina Housing, and the Entrepreneurship Center for the Kenan-Flagler School of Business.

Outdoor Pursuits: When you join the Outdoor Pursuits Residential Learning Program (RLP), you’re joining the chance to pursue health and well-being through connecting with other Tar Heels in the outdoors. From high impact adventure to low key events, we’re here to foster opportunities to collaborate with others to find balance and have greater connection with ourselves, each other, and the world around us.

Pride Place: Pride Place Residential Learning Program (RLP) is a residential community focused on the personal wellness and academic success of students of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions at Carolina. We envision a housing community in which every LGBTQ+ student feels safe, included, and empowered.

Transfers United: Transfer United Residential Learning Program (TU RLP) promotes your seamless transition as a transfer student to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. By encouraging success in academics, wellness and engagement, the program will help you establish a connection with the Carolina and prepare you to persist through to graduation.