UNC Story Archive recording with Skyler Singleton2 items
Date Deposited: 2021-12-17
Collection: UNC Story Archive (70096)
Collection Number: 70096
Finding Aid: https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/70096/
During a remote recording session, Skyler Singleton (Class of 2021), explains how her time at UNC was shaped by protests against the University’s Confederate statue, the controversy of Carol Folt, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Singleton shares how “the second that I stepped onto UNC's campus, everything was shifting...everything was changing” and how ... Read more
During a remote recording session, Skyler Singleton (Class of 2021), explains how her time at UNC was shaped by protests against the University’s Confederate statue, the controversy of Carol Folt, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Singleton shares how “the second that I stepped onto UNC's campus, everything was shifting...everything was changing” and how her frustration grew with “good old boys in my history and poli-sci classes who were saying that Silent Sam was "just a part of our confederate history”. When the COVID-19 pandemic sent Singleton back to her parent’s home in the mountains, the “immense fear and anxiety every single day” made school very difficult; “it just very much felt like a complete disconnect". Even though the pandemic drastically shaped her UNC experience, Singleton remembers the friendships, job, great classes, and achievements.Read less