The University of North Texas (UNT) is a
public
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research university
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in
Denton, Texas
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. It was founded as a
nonsectarian
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Academic sphere
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, coeducational, private
teachers college
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in 1890 and was formally adopted by the state 11 years later.
["Denton Normal School," Dallas Morning News, May 25, 1901, p. 2.] UNT is a member of the
University of North Texas System
The University of North Texas System is a public university system headquartered in Dallas, Texas. It is the administrative overseer of three otherwise autonomous Texas institutions of higher learning: the University of North Texas, a comprehensi ...
, which includes additional universities in
Dallas
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and
Fort Worth. UNT also has a location in
Frisco.
The university consists of 14 colleges and schools, an early admissions math and science academy for exceptional high-school-age students from across the state, the
Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science
The Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science (TAMS) is a two-year residential early entrance college program serving approximately 375 high school juniors and seniors at the University of North Texas. Students are admitted from every region of ...
, and a library system that comprises the university core. It is
classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". According to the
National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National ...
, UNT spent $78.4 million on research and development in 2019.
Campus
The main campus is located in Denton, TX part of the largest metropolitan area in Texas,
Dallas-Fort Worth. The campus is 1,200 acres including the main campus north of I-35E, the Eagle point athletic complex south of I-35E, and Discovery Park; a research campus located between state highways 77 and 380.
On behalf of the state, the university, in its civic advocacy for the state, prevailed with three new-location, capital-intensive expansions over the last years.
* The university acquired in 1975 and subsequently developed a
medical school in Fort Worth
* The university created a
campus in South Dallas in 2000
* The university laid the groundwork for establishing the first
public law school in the region (the 2nd is SMU law school).
In 1981, the university spun off its new
medical school as its own independent institution under the
UNT Board of Regents. In 2009, the
University of North Texas at Dallas
The University of North Texas at Dallas (UNTD) is a public university in Dallas, Texas. It opened in 2000 as a branch campus of the University of North Texas, offering upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in multiple disciplines. In 20 ...
became its own independent institution. That same year, the Texas legislature approved the creation of
University of North Texas at Dallas College of Law
The University of North Texas at Dallas College of Law (UNT Dallas College of Law) is a law school institution accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA). It is located at 106 S. Harwood St. in the UNT Dallas Law Center. The parent institu ...
, opening in 2014 in
Downtown Dallas
Downtown Dallas is the central business district (CBD) of Dallas, Texas, United States, located in the geographic center of the city. It is the second-largest business district in the state of Texas. The area termed "Downtown" has traditionally ...
as part of
UNT Dallas. UNT and its three sister institutions are governed by the
University of North Texas System
The University of North Texas System is a public university system headquartered in Dallas, Texas. It is the administrative overseer of three otherwise autonomous Texas institutions of higher learning: the University of North Texas, a comprehensi ...
, a system established in 1980 by the board of regents and legislatively recognized in 2003 by the
78th Texas Legislature.
In 2004, UNT opened
UNT Discovery Park – – in Denton, north of the main campus with technology incubator facilities dedicated to science and engineering. In 2011, the College of Visual Arts and Design launched the Design Research Center in
downtown Dallas
Downtown Dallas is the central business district (CBD) of Dallas, Texas, United States, located in the geographic center of the city. It is the second-largest business district in the state of Texas. The area termed "Downtown" has traditionally ...
in the Design District.
In 2016, UNT opened a location in Hall Park in Frisco in
Collin County. In 2018, UNT opened Inspire Park. UNT teaches nearly 2,000 students in Collin County each semester at Hall Park, Inspire Park and the Collin Higher Education Center in McKinney. In 2020, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board approved UNT building a branch campus to provide upper-level and graduate courses on 100 acres donated by the city of Frisco. Classes are expected to begin in Spring 2023.
Official designations
In 1985 the
Governor's Select Committee on Higher Education recommended that North Texas be designated an "emerging national research university." Nine years earlier, in 1976, the
Carnegie Foundation designated North Texas as a "Class 1 Doctorate-Granting Institution." Four decades later, in February 2016,
Carnegie elevated North Texas to its top category – Doctorate-Granting Institutions with "highest research activity." At that time, Carnegie had 115 universities listed at that level.
In 1988, U.S. Secretary of Education
William Bennett
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cited UNT for its innovative approach to undergraduate education in the Classic Learning Core, an integrated liberal arts curriculum similar to those usually found only in small, private colleges. In 1992, UNT was elected to full membership in the
Association of Public and Land-grant Universities.
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And, in 2011, the
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
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THECB det ...
included UNT as one of eight Emerging Research Institutions in its accountability system.
In 2020, UNT achieved designation from the Department of Education as a Title III & Title V
Minority-Serving Institution (MSI) and as a
Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI).
Enrollment
Certified enrollment as of the fall of 2021 was 42,372, the
fifth largest in the state. For the 2019–20 academic year, the university awarded 10,270
degrees. UNT awarded 459 Ph.D. degrees from fiscal years 2009 to 2011.
Academics
Of the 14 colleges and schools, UNT offers 109 bachelor's degree programs, and 94 master's and 36 doctorate degree programs.
The student-faculty ratio at UNT is 23:1, and 28.8 percent of its classes consist of fewer than 20 students. The most popular majors include business, management, marketing, communication, journalism, English, multi/interdisciplinary studies, and visual and performing arts.
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at "Best Colleges Rankings," '' U.S. News & World Report''
UNT has been
accredited
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by the
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools since 1924 and is among the twenty-seven universities in Texas accredited at Level VI, the highest level. As of 2020, the university was home to 22 research centers and institutes. In 2007, the university launched four Institutes of Research Excellence: (i) Advanced Environmental Research Institute, (ii) Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Processes Institute, (iii) BioDiscovery Institute, and (iv) Jim McNatt Institute for Logistics Research. In 2019, UNT launched the Center for Agile and Adaptive Additive Manufacturing.
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
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The College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences houses 22 academic departments and programs and five public services (including a psychology clinic and a speech and hearing clinic), and eight student services (of which seven are labs).
College of Science
UNT has been offering Bachelor of Science degrees for years, Master of Science degrees (in biology, mathematics, chemistry, and economics) for years, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in several scientific disciplines—including chemistry, biology, and physics—for years. UNT is a sponsoring institution member (Ph.D.-granting) of
Oak Ridge Associated Universities
Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) is a consortium of American universities headquartered in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, with offices in Arlington, Virginia, Arvada, Colorado, Belcamp, Maryland, Cincinnati, Ohio and staff at other locations acro ...
(ORAU), a consortium of 105 major research universities that leverage scientific research through partnerships with national laboratories, government agencies, and private industry. It has been a member of the consortium since 1954.
G. Brint Ryan College of Business
The College of Business is host to five academic departments: (i) Accounting, (ii) Finance, Insurance, Real Estate and Law, (iii) Information Technology and Decision Sciences, (iv) Marketing, Logistics, and Operations Management (v) Management. It offers seven undergraduate programs, fourteen M.B.A. and master of science programs, and six Ph.D. programs. In Fall 2011, the college moved into a new state-of-the-art
Gold LEED certified $70 million facility named the ''Business Leadership Building.'' The college is accredited in both business and accounting by the
Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business—accreditation for the former stretches back years (1961) and the latter, years (1987).
The college of business was renamed in 2019 to the G. Brint Ryan College of Business following a gift from alumnus G. Brint Ryan, alumnus and UNT System Board of Regents Chairman. The $30 million gift awarded by Ryan and his wife Amanda will create at least six endowed chairs and provide funding for academic program initiatives over seven years. Among the areas of focus are taxation and tax research, entrepreneurship, finance, logistics, information technology, cybersecurity and behavioral accounting.
Undergraduate business education
In 2018, 5,093 students were enrolled as business majors at the undergraduate level.
Graduate business education
In 2018, 691 students were working on graduate degrees. The college is host to two research centers (ii) the Institute of Petroleum Accounting and (iii) the Murphy Center for Entrepreneurship.
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U.S. News & World Report's'' "2021 Best Online Programs" ranked UNT 31st in the nation among the Best Online Graduate Business Programs.
College of Education
The College of Education is a legacy of the university's founding as a teachers college years ago. The college is organized as four departments and one center: (i) Counseling and Higher Education, (ii) Educational Psychology, (iii) Kinesiology, Health Promotion and Recreation, (iv) Teacher Education and Administration, and (v) The Kristin Farmer Autism Center. The college offers 12 bachelor's degrees, 19 master's degrees and 15 doctoral concentrations. As of the 2010–2011 school year, the college certified over 1,147 teachers, the second largest number in the state by a university. In 1979, the
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) is an agency of the U.S. state of Texas's government that oversees all public post-secondary education in the state. It is headquartered at 1801 North Congress Avenue in Austin.
THECB det ...
approved renaming the "School of Education" to the "College of Education." At that time, the college was the largest in Texas and the Southwest, the largest doctoral program in the state, and the twenty-fifth largest producer of teacher certificates in the United States.
["New Graduate Degrees Approved for NTSU," '' Dallas Morning News'', March 14, 1970, Sec. C, pg. 6] Its prior name, "School of Education," dates back to 1946, when the teachers college outgrew itself and reorganized as six schools and colleges.
["Big Growth Seen for NTSC," by Riley Cross, '' Dallas Morning News'', May 22, 1949, Sec.IV, pg. 5]
College of Engineering
The College of Engineering, founded in 2003, inherited longstanding programs (i) Computer Science, (ii) Information Technology, and (iii) Engineering Technology—with majors in (a) Construction Engineering Technology, (b) Electronics Engineering Technology, (c) Manufacturing Engineering Technology, (d) Mechanical Engineering Technology, and (e) Nuclear Engineering Technology—and launched (iv) Computer Engineering, (v) Electrical Engineering, (vi) Materials Science and Engineering, (vii) Mechanical Engineering, and (viii) Biomedical Engineering (2014). The college is host to three research centers, one of which being the Net-Centric Software and Systems Center (launched February 24, 2009), a research consortium hosted by UNT and organized as a
National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National ...
Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (NSF I/UCRC). It is primarily funded by industry members (which consist of 16 corporations) and universities (which consist of 5). The focus is developing computing models for the future—models that go beyond applications with preordained fixed capabilities—models capable of services that are dynamically created, verified, and validated
in the field and .
College of Information
The College of Information was created in October 2008 by consolidating two existing academic units: Learning Technologies (formerly within the College of Education) and the School of Library and Information Sciences. The School of Library and Information Services was created in 1970 as an outgrowth of its former structure as the Department of Library Services. The college sponsors three research centers, one being The Texas Center for Digital Knowledge.
College of Merchandising, Hospitality and Tourism
The College of Merchandising, Hospitality and Tourism houses the largest merchandising program in the nation and one of the largest hospitality and tourism management programs. The college offers bachelor's degrees with majors in digital retailing, home furnishings merchandising, hospitality management, event design & experience management, and merchandising, and master's degrees in hospitality management, international
sustainable tourism and merchandising. It has the nation's first bachelor's in digital retailing and master's in international sustainable tourism. The college was formerly known as the School of Merchandising and Hospitality Management.
College of Music
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The
College of Music is a comprehensive institution of international rank.
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; als
Oxford Music Online
Its heritage dates back years, when North Texas was founded. The college has the largest enrollment of any music institution accredited by the
National Association of Schools of Music
The National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) is an association of post-secondary music schools in the United States and the principal U.S. accreditor for higher education in music. It was founded on October 20, 1924, and is based in Reston ...
.
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(c2002) It has been among the largest music institutions of higher learning in North America since the 1940s. The
music library
A music library contains music-related materials for patron use. Collections may also include non-print materials, such as digitized music scores or audio recordings. Use of such materials may be limited to specific patron groups, especially in ...
, founded in 1941, has one of the largest music collections in the United States, with over 300,000 volumes of books, periodicals, scores, and approximately 900,000 sound recordings.
North Texas was first in the world to offer a degree in jazz studies.
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U.S. News & World Report'' ranked the jazz studies program as the best in the country every year from 1994, when it began ranking graduate jazz programs, to 1997, when it retired the category. The
One O'Clock Lab Band
One O'Clock Lab Band is an ensemble of the Jazz Studies division at the University of North Texas College of Music in Denton, Texas. Since the 1970s, the band's albums have received seven Grammy Award nominations, including two for ''Lab 2009''. ...
has been nominated for 7
Grammy Awards.
College of Health and Public Service
Previously called the College of Public Affairs and Community Service (PACS) and before that the College of Community Service, the college adopted its current name in Fall 2017. The college is organized in seven departments: Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology; Behavior Analysis; Criminal Justice; Emergency Management and Disaster Science; Public Administration; Rehabilitation and Health Services; and Social Work.
The department of public administration is home of the nation's first comprehensive degree program in
emergency and disaster management
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that launched in 1983. The degree incorporates interdisciplinary curricula from other colleges that include
applied philosophy and
environmental ethics
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. The degree is tailored for both management practitioners and researchers and is collaborative with the
Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Region VI—based in Denton—which oversees Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Denton became home to FEMA when its predecessor, the
Office of Civil Defense and Mobilization, constructed the nation's first Federal underground defense center in 1959.
The college is host to five research institutes, one being the
Turkish Institute for Police Studies (TIPS). The institute has, since its founding in 1999, been based at North Texas. Its institution is a collaboration between the
Turkish National Police (TNP) and U.S. universities in areas of terrorism, organized crime, narcotics, administration, intelligence, and investigation.
UNT and
Texas Women's University began a joint
Master of Social Work
The Master of Social Work (MSW) is a master's degree in the field of social work. It is a professional degree with specializations compared to Bachelor of Social Work (BSW). MSW promotes macro-, mezzo- and micro-aspects of professional social work ...
(M.S.W.) program in 2017.
College of Visual Arts and Design
The College of Visual Arts and Design has the 10th largest enrollment of any art and design school accredited by the
National Association of Schools of Art and Design
The National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), founded in 1944, is an accrediting organization of colleges, schools and universities in the United States. The organization establishes standards for graduate and undergraduate degrees ...
, and the second largest of any that awards doctorates. The college name changes reflect the curricular expansion of programs. In 1992, what then had been the "Department of Art" within the College of Arts and Sciences, became "School of Visual Arts;" and in 2007, it became the "College of Visual Arts and Design." Art classes began at UNT in 1894, four years after its founding. Master's degrees were initiated in the 1930s and the first Master of Science degree in art was awarded in 1937. Since 1972, the college has served as curator and custodian of the
Texas Fashion Collection
The Texas Fashion Collection is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and documentation of historically significant fashion. It is operated by the University of North Texas through the College of Visual Arts and Design (CVAD) and ...
that was started by
Stanley Marcus in 1938.
Honors College
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The
Honors College
Honors colleges and honors programs are special accommodation constituent programs at public and private universities – and also public two-year institutions of higher learning – that include, among other things, supplemental or alternativ ...
offers academic enrichments, including honors seminars and exclusive classes only for high-achieving undergraduates. There is no age limit. Its classes can either supplement or substitute core coursework. Its objective is to challenge exceptional students at higher levels and to promote leadership. The college is an autonomous collegiate unit on equal footing with the other collegiate units. Academically, it offers no degrees; but its courses are integrated with the
baccalaureate Baccalaureate may refer to:
* ''Baccalauréat'', a French national academic qualification
* Bachelor's degree, or baccalaureate, an undergraduate academic degree
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programs of the other ten constituent colleges and the journalism school. Graduates are awarded a special medallion. The college offers many perks, including scholarships, exchange programs, and exclusive housing—Honors Hall.
The college began as an honors program years ago (Fall 1971). Its initial enrollment of 50, back then, quickly grew to 400. But the program lost support under a system of borrowing faculty members. The Honors Program was reconstituted in 1994 and was elevated as a college in 2005.
Mayborn School of Journalism
Curricular journalism at North Texas dates back to 1945. As a department, Journalism eventually became part of the College of Arts and Sciences. The Graduate Division of Journalism began in the fall of 1970 under the direction of Reginald Conway Westmorland.
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''North Texas Daily
''North Texas Daily,'' also known as NT Daily, is the student newspaper of the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas, published daily on the web and every Thursday in print.
In 2015, under the leadership of Editor-In-Chief Nicholas Friedm ...
'', Vol. 54, No. 115 (ed. 1), August 5, 1971 In 1999, twelve years after the death of
Frank W. Mayborn, its graduate program was renamed the Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism. On September 1, 2009, the entire program was elevated as its own collegiate unit and named the Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism. Eight
Pulitzer Prizes
The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made ...
have been won by five of its alumni, among whom are
Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers (born Billy Don Moyers, June 5, 1934) is an American journalist and political commentator. Under the Johnson administration he served from 1965 to 1967 as the eleventh White House Press Secretary. He was a director of the Counci ...
and
Howard Swindle. Other notable alumni include
Samir Husni and
Cragg Hines. Since 1969, the news-editorial sequence has been accredited by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications; and since 1986, the entire program has been accredited. The school is in its year as founding host of the annual Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference.
Virginia Ellison ''(née'' Virginia Jones Paty; 1920–2009)—a North Texas alumna (BA, English, '41) who also taught English and journalism, sponsored the Student Press Club, and served as director of publicity at North Texas from 1942 to 1944—won a
Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship in 1945, the year she earned a degree from the
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is located in Pulitzer Hall on the university's Morningside Heights campus in New York City.
Founded in 1912 by Joseph Pulitzer, Columbia Journalism School is one of the oldest journalism s ...
.
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''New York Sun
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'', May 18, 1945, pg. 15["Three Women Get Pulitzer Awards," '']New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'', May 18, 1945
Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science
TAMS is a two-year residential early college entrance program that has, since 1987, served exceptionally qualified Texas students who otherwise would be attending high school as juniors and seniors. It was the first of its kind in the nation and, , the only in the state and one of five in the nation.
Toulouse Graduate School
The Toulouse Graduate School, founded years ago, is the academic custodian and administrator of all graduate programs offered by nine colleges and one school. It maintains records, administers admissions, and serves various roles in recruiting. It was renamed in 1990 in honor of Robert Bartell Toulouse, EdD (1918–2017), who joined in 1948 as a professor in the College of Education, then served dean of the Graduate School from 1954 to 1982. Toulouse, before retiring as professor ''emeritus'', had served other roles at the university, including provost and vice president of academic affairs from 1982 to 1985.
Libraries
UNT Libraries are made up of four public service points and two remote storage facilities. Willis Library is the main library on campus, housing the business, economics, education, humanities and social sciences collections along with microforms and special areas such as the Music Library, Government Documents, the Digital Library Division, Archives, and the Rare Book and Texana collections. The Media Library in Chilton Hall houses a large collection of audiovisual materials, including films, audiobooks, and video games (see
Game Design
Game design is the art of applying design and aesthetics to create a game for entertainment or for educational, exercise, or experimental purposes. Increasingly, elements and principles of game design are also applied to other interactions, in ...
, above). Video recording equipment and gaming consoles are available for checkout. The Sycamore Library houses the government documents, law, political science, geography and business collections. It also houses the Collaboration and Learning Commons, a place to study in groups, create multi-media projects, and record presentations. The Discovery Park Library supports the College of Engineering and the College of Information, Library Science, and Technologies. It covers multiple areas of engineering, library and information science, and learning technology.
The Intensive English Language Institute (IELI)
Established in 1977, IELI is the largest intensive English program (IEP) in
North Texas
North Texas (also commonly called North Central Texas) is a term used primarily by residents of Dallas, Fort Worth, and surrounding areas to describe much of the north central portion of the U.S. state of Texas. Residents of the Dallas–Fort Wo ...
, serving international students who wish to learn
academic English English for Academic Purposes (EAP), commonly known as Academic English, entails training students, usually in a higher education setting, to use language appropriate for study. It is one of the most common forms of English for Specific Purposes (E ...
in preparation for university studies in the United States. IELI is a constituent of UNT International Affairs, an interdisciplinary unit and exponent of globalization in higher education that provides leadership and support of international teaching, research, and
study-abroad initiatives. , IELI has been located in Marquis Hall on the UNT
Denton campus.
Student life
Residential life
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All freshmen are required to live on campus to satisfy a residency requirement. 15.5% of students, or 5,620, live in on-campus residence halls. In addition, 37.3%, or 13,494, live within the city of Denton while 4,021, or 11.1% live outside of the city of Denton but within Denton County and 36.1% or 13,043 students live outside of Denton County.
Student residence halls
There are 15 residence halls on the Denton campus. UNT also offers the Residents Engaged in Academic Living (REAL) Communities program. The REAL communities offer students the ability to live with other residents in their major, and allow them to interact with each other and participate in programs that are geared toward their major or discipline. On August 22, 2011, -year-old Maple Street Hall became the first
all-vegan ("Mean Greens") college cafeteria in the country.
["Opening Day at UNT's Vegan Cafeteria: Greens Aren't Mean," by Seth Cohn, '']Dallas Observer
''Dallas Observer'' is a free digital and print publication based in Dallas, Texas. The ''Observer'' publishes daily online coverage of local news, restaurants, music, and arts, as well as longform narrative journalism. A weekly print issue circ ...
'', August 23, 2011 The given 14 residence hall at the University of North Texas are : Bruce Hall, Clark Hall, College Inn, Crumley Hall, Joe Greene Hall, Honors Hall, Kerr Hall, Legends Hall, Maple Hall, Mozart Square, Rawlins Hall, Santa Fe Square, Traditions Hall, Victory Hall, West Hall.
Pohl Recreation Center
The Pohl Recreation Center is the student recreation center located on the campus of the University of North Texas.
Social Greek organizations
The social Greek community is made-up of four councils that oversee 42 fraternities and sororities.
Four percent of undergraduate students of both genders are members of social fraternities and sororities.
Traditions
Primary colors
North Texas adopted
Green
Green is the color between cyan and yellow on the visible spectrum. It is evoked by light which has a dominant wavelength of roughly 495570 nm. In subtractive color systems, used in painting and color printing, it is created by a combi ...
and White as its official colors during the 1902–1903 school year.
Mascot
UNT's mascot, the American
eagle
Eagle is the common name for many large birds of prey of the family Accipitridae. Eagles belong to several groups of genera, some of which are closely related. Most of the 68 species of eagle are from Eurasia and Africa. Outside this area, j ...
, was adopted on February 1, 1922, as a result of a student-faculty council debate and ensuing student election.
The eagle has had three nicknames, beginning with "Scrappy" in 1950. The human costumed eagle character, launched in 1963, carried the name "Scrappy" until 1974—during the throes of the
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (also known by other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam a ...
—when students adopted the name "Eppy" because it sounded less warlike. Since then, the name has switched back and forth, from Eppy to Scrappy; but for the last years, the name "Scrappy" has endured.
Nickname for intercollegiate athletics
The name "Mean Green," now in its year, was adopted by fans and media in 1966 for a North Texas football defensive squad that finished the season second in the nation against the
rush. That season,
Joe Greene
Charles Edward Greene (born September 24, 1946), better known as "Mean" Joe Greene, is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1969 to 1 ...
, then a sophomore at North Texas, played left
defensive tackle on the football team and competed in track and field (
shot put). The nickname "Mean Joe Greene" caught-on during his first year with the
Pittsburgh Steelers in 1969 when Pittsburgh fans wrongly assumed that "Mean Green" was derived from a nickname Joe Greene had inherited while at North Texas. The North Texas athletic department, media, and fans loved the novelty of the national use of its nickname, and its association with Joe Greene's surname and university's official school color. By 1968, "Mean Green" was branded on the backs of shirts, buttons, bumper stickers, and the cover of the North Texas football brochure.
["Mean Green Same as Nickname," by Mike Cochran ''(né'' John Michael Cochran; born 1936), '']Abilene Reporter-News
''Abilene Reporter-News'' is a daily newspaper based in Abilene, Texas, United States. The newspaper started publishing as the weekly ''Abilene Reporter'', helmed by Charles Edwin Gilbert on June 17, 1881, just three months after Abilene was f ...
( AP)'', September 1, 1968
Fight song
Francis Edwin Stroup, EdD (1909–2010), emerged in 1939—ten years after graduating from North Texas—as the winning composer (lyrics and music) of a university sponsored
fight song
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competition organized by
Floyd Graham.
["NTSC Song Author Can't Read Music—Just Pecks Out Songs," '']Denton Record-Chronicle
The ''Denton Record-Chronicle'' is the main newspaper for the city of Denton, Texas and Denton County.
In 1899, William Edwards consolidated the ''Denton Chronicle'' and ''Denton County Record'' (founded 1892 and 1898, respectively) as a weekly ...
'', June 25, 1950, sec. 2, pg. 1 He taught summers at North Texas from 1939 to 1942. The song, "Fight, North Texas," has endured for years and the lyrics have changed minimally to reflect the name changes of the university. While serving as an associate professor at the
University of Wyoming
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from 1946 to 1950, Stroup rewrote the lyrics for the chorus to "
Ragtime Cowboy Joe
Ragtime Cowboy Joe is a popular western swing song. The lyrics were written by Grant Clarke and the music was composed by Lewis F. Muir and Maurice Abrahams. It was copyrighted and published in 1912 by F.A. Mills.
Artists
The song has been ...
," which was adopted in 1961 as the university's fight song. After serving as head of the Physical Education Department at
Southern Arkansas University
Southern Arkansas University (SAU) is a public university in Magnolia, Arkansas.
History
Southern Arkansas University was established by an Act of the Arkansas Legislature in 1909 as a district agricultural high school for southwest Arkansas an ...
from 1950 to 1959, Stroup became Professor of Physical Education at
Northern Illinois University
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. While there, Stroup rewrote the lyrics to the chorus of Alonzo Neil Annas' (1882–1966) NIU "Loyalty Song" (1942), which was informally adopted in 1961 and officially 1963 as the "Huskie Fight Song."
["Fight song composer turns 100," by Dana Herra, '']Daily Chronicle
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Foundation
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'' (Illinois), September 7, 2009["Stroup, 101, wrote NIU fight song," by Kate Schott, '']Daily Chronicle
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Foundation
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'' (Illinois), December 3, 2010 Stroup also composed songs for
Drake University
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His ...
and the
University of Chicago
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. A collegiate academician who played piano mostly by ear and neither majored nor worked in music, Stroup lived to be 101, a number exceeding the songs he composed by one digit. Stroup was inducted in the Halls of Fame of
Northern Illinois University
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and the University of North Texas (1987).
Alma mater
In 1919,
Julia Smith (1905–1989), while a music student, and Charles Kirby Langford (1903–1931), then a third-year letterman on the football team and an outstanding overall athlete, composed "Glory to the Green and White" which was adopted as the school's alma mater in 1922. Smith wrote the music and Langford wrote the lyrics.
Other traditions
The Spirit Bell—a bell brought from
Michigan
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in 1891—was a curfew bell from 1892 to 1928. The Talons, a spirit and service organization formed in 1960, acquired it in the 1964, mounted it on a wagon, and began the tradition of running it around the football field to rally fans. It was retired to the University Union in 1982 after it developed a crack. A similar Spirit Bell is currently in use at games.
[Traditions]
at University of North Texas A different organization by the name "Talons" was founded in 1926 as the first social fraternity at North Texas.
On Homecoming Fridays, the Talons light a bonfire built from wooden
pallets, typically in a 40-by-40-by-25-foot-height structure. The tradition has endured since the 1930s.
[
"Boomer" is a cannon fired by the Talons at football games since the 1970s. It is a 7/8th scale M1841 6 pound, smooth bore muzzleloader, resting on hand-crafted solid oak from the campus. Talon alumni have restored it three times, the most recent being in the Fall of 2007, adding a custom for transport and equipment.][
The Mean Green Machine, a green and black 1931 Ford Model A Tudor Sedan, is driven by the Talons Motorpool Committee at football games and special events. It was donated by alumnus Rex Cauble in 1974.][ In 2012, a team of engineering students installed a NetGain WarP 9 electric engine. , the Mean Green Machine has been re-equipped with a modified Model A engine after complications with the electric engine.
McConnell Tower, the clock tower atop the Hurley Administration Building at the center of campus, is bathed in green light for victories. The clock is depicted on the official class ring with two different times on its faces: 1:00 (for the ]One O'Clock Lab Band
One O'Clock Lab Band is an ensemble of the Jazz Studies division at the University of North Texas College of Music in Denton, Texas. Since the 1970s, the band's albums have received seven Grammy Award nominations, including two for ''Lab 2009''. ...
) and 7:00—the curfew initiated in 1892.[
The eagle talon hand signal is formed by curling the thumb and index and middle fingers forward—the ring and pinkie fingers stay closed against the palm.][
"In High Places," is a tall bronze statue of a flying eagle created by Gerald Balciar and dedicated during the university's centennial in 1990.][
]
Broadcast, print, and digital media
Broadcast
KNTU (88.1 FM), licensed and owned by the university and operated by students, has, for years, broadcast to the North Texas region. Jazz has always been a feature of the station; but in 1981, it became the predominant format. KNTU began broadcasting in stereo in 1986 and, on March 22, 1988, increased its broadcasting power from 6,700 watts to 100,000, extending its reach to about a 60-mile radius from its tower located on the Denton campus. KNTU is part of the Mean Green Radio Network, which reaches 10 million listeners. Under the guidance of now-retired faculty member Bill Mercer
William A. Mercer (born February 13, 1926) is an American sportscaster, educator and author. Originally from Muskogee, Oklahoma, he has retired to Durham, North Carolina after a long residence in Richardson, Texas. In 2002, he was inducted in ...
, several sports broadcasters and radio personalities have emerged from North Texas, including Dave Barnett
David Lane Barnett (born April 27, 1958) is a play-by-play broadcaster who calls Big 12 baseball games on Fox Sports 1, college basketball on American Sports Network, and football and men's basketball for the University of North Texas (UNT). He h ...
formerly of ESPN
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, George Dunham, and Craig Miller.
NTTV, UNT's 24-hour cable television station, features student-produced and student-centric programming.
Student publications
''North Texas Review'' is an annual publication of the English Department. It is produced by UNT students and exclusively features works—art, poetry, fiction, non-fiction—by UNT students.
Student yearbooks through the years have included ''Cotton-tail'' (1906), ''Yucca'' (1907–1974), ''Wings'' (1977–1980), and ''Aerie'' (1982–2007). ''Aerie'' ceased publication after the 2007 edition, following a trend of the digital age cited by ''The Economist
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'' in 2008.
North Texas is the home of ''American Political Science Review
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'' . The journal moves among national universities every four to six years. UNT will be the first university in the South or Southwest to house the publication.
The ''North Texas Daily
''North Texas Daily,'' also known as NT Daily, is the student newspaper of the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas, published daily on the web and every Thursday in print.
In 2015, under the leadership of Editor-In-Chief Nicholas Friedm ...
'' is the official university daily newspaper, staffed by students. Print issues are published Tuesday through Friday during the fall and spring semesters, and weekly during the summer. The paper was founded in 1916 as ''The Campus Chat'' and adopted its current name in 1971.
Athletics
, North Texas sponsored fifteen athletic teams that compete at the intercollegiate level of NCAA Division I
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—for men: football; for men and women: basketball
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, track & field
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, cross country, and golf; for women only: diving
Diving most often refers to:
* Diving (sport), the sport of jumping into deep water
* Underwater diving, human activity underwater for recreational or occupational purposes
Diving or Dive may also refer to:
Sports
* Dive (American football), a ...
, soccer, softball
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, swimming
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, tennis
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, and volleyball
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. UNT has been a member of Conference USA for years.
Football
In its –year history of intercollegiate athletics, the North Texas football team has won 24 conference championships, with the last four occurring from 2001 to 2004 in the Sun Belt Conference. , the team has appeared in thirteen bowl games
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, winning three including the 1946 Optimist Bowl, the 2002 New Orleans Bowl
The 2002 Wyndham New Orleans Bowl featured the Cincinnati Bearcats and the North Texas Mean Green. It was North Texas' second consecutive New Orleans Bowl appearance.
Quarterback Gino Guidugli got Cincinnati on the board first with a 6-yard touc ...
and the 2014 Heart of Dallas Bowl. Currently, Seth Littrell
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Early life
Littrell was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, and attended Musk ...
serves as the head coach, and is in his th year as head coach. From 1952 to 2010, home football games were played at Fouts Field
Fouts Field was a stadium at the University of North Texas, located in Denton, Texas. Its primary use from its opening in 1952 until 2010 was as the home field for North Texas Mean Green football. Over its 59-year history, Fouts Field was the co ...
. In 2011, UNT began playing in newly constructed Apogee Stadium
Apogee Stadium is a college football stadium located at the junction of Interstate 35 East and West in Denton, Texas. Opened in 2011, it is home to the University of North Texas (UNT) Mean Green football team, which competes in Conference US ...
.
Men's basketball
The North Texas men's basketball team won the 2006–07 Sun Belt Conference championship and advanced to the NCAA Tournament. The season marked the beginning of four consecutive seasons of 20-plus wins. North Texas won the Sun Belt Conference championship again during the 2009–10 season, and again advanced to the NCAA Tournament. The – season marks the season that the UNT Coliseum
The UNT Coliseum is a 9,797-seat multi-purpose arena located in Denton, Texas, United States, built in 1973. While the arena's formal name is the UNT Coliseum, the building is more commonly referred to as the Super Pit, a nickname derived from ...
has served as the home for Men's basketball.
Women's basketball
The head coach of the North Texas Mean Green women's basketball team is Jalie Mitchell.
Notable alumni
As of 2020, the University of North Texas had approximately 448,000 living alumni. More than 304,000 reside in the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex.
Sustainability
In 2005, UNT launched the first PhD program in Environmental Ethics
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in the world. Three years later, the university became the first large public university in Texas to sign the " American College and University President's Climate Commitment" (ACUPCC). , twenty-four of the 658 signatory institutions of higher learning were from Texas. Of those twenty-four, five were full undergraduate-graduate institutions (2 private, 3 public). Of those five, UNT was the largest. The objectives include achieving carbon neutrality
Carbon neutrality is a state of net-zero carbon dioxide emissions. This can be achieved by balancing emissions of carbon dioxide with its removal (often through carbon offsetting) or by eliminating emissions from society (the transition to the "p ...
by 2040 and ensuring that all new university buildings and facilities meet a minimum Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver rating by the U.S. Green Building Council
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The university continued to promote sustainability in 2017 when it purchased a year worth of renewable energy credits, to allow the University of North Texas to be powered by renewable energy.
The Life Science Complex, built in 2011, became UNT's first LEED certified structure, earning a Gold rating. The Complex is a state-of-the-art research facility that houses the university's biochemistry
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, molecular biology
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, developmental physiology
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, genetics
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and plant sciences
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programs. The building features four climate-controlled rooftop greenhouses
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and one of the country's most sophisticated aquatics laboratories with more than 2,500 tanks. Also in 2011, Apogee Stadium
Apogee Stadium is a college football stadium located at the junction of Interstate 35 East and West in Denton, Texas. Opened in 2011, it is home to the University of North Texas (UNT) Mean Green football team, which competes in Conference US ...
, the -year-old football stadium, became the first newly built sports stadium in the nation to earn a Platinum LEED certification, the highest of four certifications. The facility features wind turbines, eco-friendly building materials, and native landscape architecture.
The following year, ''The Princeton Review's Guide to 322 Green Colleges, 2012 Edition'', listed UNT for the second consecutive year, citing its top 17-percent ranking among green-compliant universities nationwide under ACUPCC. The article stated that forty percent of the energy on campus is derived from renewable sources, and 43 percent of the buildings have undergone energy retrofits. The campus has posted strong numbers in recycling: since 2009, the university has recycled nearly 1,000 tons of waste materials. UNT offers graduate degrees in Environmental Science and Public Administration and Management.
Further reading
*
The Portal to Texas History
' is an undertaking of the North Texas Libraries Digital Projects Unit.
Texas State Historical Association
housed on the Denton campus , administers its website and distributes its ''Handbook of Texas Online''. The association had previously been at the University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,07 ...
since its founding in 1897.
*
UNT Research Magazine
' is an annual digital magazine. It was founded as ''ReSource'' (with various subtitles) in 1992[''ReSource'', University of North Texas, ] and adopted its current name in 2006.
See also
* ''American Literary Review
The ''American Literary Review'' is an American national biannual literary magazine of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Since its Fall 2013 issue, ''ALR'' has been an Online magazine, online digital publication. Print publications are cataloged ...
'' is a national magazine of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by writers at all stages in their careers. It was founded in 1990. The ''Review'' is largely student run, with faculty editorial oversight. In the fall of 2013, the ''Review'' become exclusively an online digital publication.
* ''Environmental Ethics
In environmental philosophy, environmental ethics is an established field of practical philosophy "which reconstructs the essential types of argumentation that can be made for protecting natural entities and the sustainable use of natural resourc ...
'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the study of philosophical aspects of environmental problems. It was established in 1979.
* University of North Texas Press
The University of North Texas Press (or UNT Press), founded in 1987, is a university press that is part of the University of North Texas
The University of North Texas (UNT) is a public research university in Denton, Texas. It was founded as ...
, founded in 1987, is a relatively young albeit prolific book publisher with more than 300 titles in print ().
Notes
References
External links
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North Texas Athletics website
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