Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

Excellence in Student-Centered Education

UNT will provide a stimulating, supportive, and rigorous educational experience to a diverse student body, preparing students for leadership in a changing world.

In her inaugural address April 13, 2007 President Gretchen M. Bataille announced the implementation of UNT's new Emerald Eagle Scholars program for all of its academically talented, first-time freshmen who have high financial needs. "An important measure to help ensure success in this special partnership between the Emerald Eagle Scholars and UNT is the requirement that participants must engage in the richness of university life." Read More

The Center for Student Rights and Responsibilities helps to promote leadership ideals. They build citizens as they support, encourage and inspire the students of the University of North Texas to become active citizens not only in our University community, but in local, state, national and global communities. They discuss building citizens, integrity and provide resources that will help the student prepare for a changing world.

UNT in partnership with the Foundations of Excellence® in the First College Year, the signature project of the Policy Center on the First Year of College, recently conducted a self-study under the themes of Communicating Mission and Expectations, Faculty and Student Learning, Academic Support and Co-Curricular Learning, and First-Year Assessment. This process will help with future planning and emerged from the concerted efforts of more than 100 people along with the comments and survey results of many more. Read the summary data (Word format)

Housing and Residence Life actively seeks ways to build a sense of community and promote a positive campus culture. Two such programs are the faculty-in-residence and REAL programs. Dr. Marc Cutright is the first faculty member at UNT to live in one of the residence halls under the university's new faculty-in-residence program. Read More

Increased Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity

UNT will significantly increase its levels of funded research, scholarly productivity, and artistic expression in order to enhance undergraduate and graduate education, contribute to economic growth, and improve UNT’s standing among peer institutions.

The research that is conducted at UNT is so diverse and rich that the best way to share some of this important work is to direct you to one UNT's award winning publications UNT Research

The Center for Sport Psychology and Performance Excellence is a national leader the field of sport psychology. A multidisciplinary center devoted to sport psychology service, research, and training. Read more about some of the exciting research.

Video screens of the future could be thinner and more flexible, thanks to research from a UNT assistant professor of chemistry. Dr. Guido Verbeck is one of 29 scientists and engineers from across the United States to receive a three year, $300,000 grant through the Air Force's Young Investigator Research Program. Read more about this exciting research and the students that are participating in the process. Read more

The Center for Logistics Education and Research is a private and university-funded center within the Department of Marketing and Logistics in the College of Business Administration (COBA) at the University of North Texas (UNT). The Texas Logistics Education Foundation Center (TLEF) is a private not-for-profit foundation committed to excellence in logistics education. The Texas Logistics Education Foundation Center (TLEF) establishes a partnership between businesses and the academic community designed to advance the study and practice of logistics and supply chain management in Texas, nationally and globally. Just a quick look at their website will show how the center works closely with industry to share information through many conferences and seminars.

Enhancing Institutional Reputation, Community Engagement, and Advancement

UNT will enhance an institutional image that reflects the university’s character, relevance, accomplishments, and value; strengthen the reputation of its academic, research, creative, and athletic components; and promote supportive and collaborative relationships with external constituents.

At the leading edge of the university's participation in the program is UNT G-Force, a student organization that develops and supervises Go Centers in area school districts. Currently, the university's G-Force students are working directly with administrators, counselors and high school student leaders in efforts to encourage more students in the Dallas area (College for Texans Region 10) and in Fort Worth and surrounding counties (Region 11) to graduate from high school and go to college. An application form downloaded and you can Read More

The "Robocamp Mobile Unit" will work with the Southwest Girls Collaborative Project, the Society for Women Engineers and several local Girl Scout Councils to visit school districts in Denton, Dallas and Tarrant counties. The camps will specifically target those districts with a large percentage of Hispanic and African American female junior high and high school students to encourage those students to pursue careers in engineering. Robocamp organizer David Keathly, a lecturer and undergraduate advisor with the UNT Department of Computer Science and Engineering, says, "The Robocamp Mobile Unit will recreate the full Robocamp experience by bringing equipment, supplies and UNT faculty and student assistants to various locations accessible to these young women." Dr. Krishna Kavi and Dr. Robert Akl are also investigators on the grant and as this program reaches out to the pre-college age students the many points of interaction will encourage students to consider a career in science. Read More

The Texas Center for Educational Technology in the University of North Texas College of Education is one of the recipients of a total $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to recruit future teachers for high-need areas. Upon graduating, the students would teach subjects in need of more highly qualified instructors in schools where at least 40 percent of students are eligible for free or reduced lunch subsidies. Read More

Steve Wiest, alumnus and assistant professor of jazz studies, and Joseph Banowetz, professor of music, earned Grammy nominations this year. Nominees of the 50th Annual Grammy Awards were announced Dec. 6, 2007. Read more

Improved Institutional Effectiveness

UNT will improve managerial and operational accountability and effectiveness by developing the human, financial, and physical resources necessary to achieve the university mission and vision.

The University of North Texas is in the fourth year of a seven year journey to transform large enrollment undergraduate courses by engaging and enabling faculty members to design, apply, and assess innovative instructional techniques. The goal of the QEP is to improve student learning outcomes through enabling our students to engage with the subject matter, with the faculty, and with each other. Learn more

Space management is always an issue in a growing and vibrant university. There was a comprehensive review of university space that was conducted during the summer (07), anticipating the demolition of several building and was guided by strategic principles which include keeping undergraduate academic core programs centrally located on the main campus , moving non-core activities to the periphery of campus, and co-locating academic units to achieve intellectual synergies. Read more

The Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment offers a range of services to faculty, adjuncts, and teaching fellows/assistants to facilitate teaching and measuring learning at the class, department, and college level. CTLA supports the UNT teaching community primarily through workshops, seminars, conferences, individual consultations, and the CTLA Website. Learn more

The Office of Institutional Research & Accreditation (IR&A) develops and maintains extensive data bases, conducts detailed research and provides timely, accurate, and useful data to address the needs of university decision-makers, external agencies, and internal constituents. The office also provides guidance in the area of institutional effectiveness to help improve the quality of academic offerings, institutional operations and support, and student services at the university in accordance with the institution's mission and in support of the strategic goals. They are currently planning a newsletter to share their data across a broader spectrum of constituencies. Learn more

In the winter of 1945, on the day of her liberation from six years of Nazi rule, Gerda Weissmann clung to life at the end of a 350-mile death march. She weighed 68 pounds, her hair had turned white, and she had not had a bath in three years. She survived with courage, grace and dignity. A free teleconference that featured Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein who now teaches tolerance, understanding and the need to make a difference was just one of the many programs presented in the Fall of 2007 to promote tolerance. Read more

A new dual master's degree program that began this fall allows students to simultaneously earn masters degrees in English as a second language from both UNT and the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (UAEM). It is the first dual degree offered in partnership by the two universities, and is a demonstration of UNT's ongoing commitment to globalization, collaboration and diversity. Read more

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia visited our campus to learn about the role of public education in the United States and how religion, culture and politics are taught at American public universities. UNT was the only public, four-year university that the delegation visited in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. And earlier this summer, Dr. Bataille traveled to Thailand to sign an agreement with 35 presidents of the Rajabhat Universities, making UNT Thailand's partner and university of choice in improving the education of their faculty. Read More

Study abroad programs are essential to expose students to the perspectives and cultures of others. International Studies and Programs (ISP) is a multi-faceted department which maintains six constituent units to serve all UNT students, faculty and staff in all departments. ISP works cooperatively with all departments to develop international activity and exchanges with universities around the world. Learn more

Several students will spend the four-week winter break studying culture and music at India's Mysore University as part of UNT's first formal educational exchange program with a university in India. Read more

The North Texas Community College Consortium is designed in part to improve communication and collaboration among member community colleges and between member community colleges and the University of North Texas. Learn more

One way that UNT stays connected to the alumni is through The North Texan but the University Relations, Communications and Marketing team keeps the university community, local officials, and external constituents updated through many web and print resources. Learn more

"Getting students to go to college is one side of the coin; getting them to graduate from college is the other," says Denise Johnson, project director. Dr. Johnson is also the coordinator for the North Texas Regional P-16 Council whose mission is to work across the levels of education and with business and the community to advance the education of all students and to close gaps in the achievement of students from groups underrepresented in higher education. Read more