The 黑料不打烊 graduate and former news director of 鈥満诹喜淮蜢 Local News鈥 was part of a three-person crew conducting interviews and gathering footage of arriving first-year and transfer students.
In summer 2012, Gary Grumbach 鈥16 moved onto campus and settled into his聽 Colonnades Neighborhood dorm room with the help of a few family members and enthusiastic orientation leaders. Seven years later, he returned to his alma mater on Aug. 14 as part of a three-person MSNBC crew to chronicle the university鈥檚 official Move-In Day.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the university鈥檚 Move-In Day was adapted this year with new policies and measures in place to promote a healthy and safe start to the academic year. Grumbach, a NBC News reporter, and the MSNBC film crew visited campus to cover the move-in experience, interviewing first-year students and their families about the updated process and their feelings about studying on campus.
For a full recap of the university鈥檚 COVID-19 pandemic response, visit the Ready & Resilient site.
A former 鈥満诹喜淮蜢 Local News鈥 news director, at the Schar Center, which hosted the university鈥檚 Health Check-In, where arriving students had their temperatures checked and received their Ready & Resilient Kits. Afterward, Grumbach and the crew visited residence halls to speak to families as they moved in.
If Grumbach is a familiar face, it likely because he spent much of the past year working as a member of NBC News鈥 2020 embed reporting team, covering the campaign of presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders. He traveled extensively with the U.S. senator from Vermont during the fall and winter until the pandemic hit. With Sanders in North Carolina for a rally last September, Grumbach was able to return to campus to