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UNT head football coach Todd Dodge was featured on MSN.com Fox Sports on Aug. 15 in an article about the 10 football coaches on the rise. According to Fox Sports, the former Southlake Carroll head man and Texas quarterback is about to make UNT explode. Dodge ranks among the six most productive quarterbacks in Texas high school history, and he's about to do the same for the Mean Green.
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Residents of Greensburg, Kan. are rebuilding their town after a devastating tornado in May 2007. The town plans to build a sustainable community and follow U.S. Green Building Standards, among other environmentally-friendly guidelines.
UNT’s Jack Rozdilsky, assistant professor of public administration, will study their efforts. His work was reported by Associated Press, and was included in 52 media reports noting the first anniversary of the storm.
• Morris Daily Herald (Morris, Ill.)
• Galveston Daily News
• MSNBC.com
• Aol.com
• KansasCity.com (web site of The Kansas City Star)
• Casper Star-Tribune.net (web site of Casper Star-Tribune in Casper, Wyoming)
• Macon (Ga.) Telegraph
• Reflector.com (web site of The Daily Reflector, Greenville, NC)
• Auburnpub.com (web site of Lee Publications in Syracuse, NY)
• The Dispatch (Lexington, N.C.)
• Merced Sun-Star.com (web site of Merced Sun-Star, Merced, Calif.)
• WRAL.com (web site of WRAL-TV and WRAL-FM, Raleigh, N.C.)
• Chron.com (web site of Houston Chronicle)
• Yahoo! Canada
• Boston Globe
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A video feature about the Grammy Award nominations of musicians Joseph Banowetz, Alton Chan and Steve Wiest may be viewed on theVideo/Slide Shows page of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram .
Go to: http://www.star-telegram.com/. Scroll down the page to "Video/Slide Shows" headline. Link to "Features" on the left side of the window. Go to "Going to the Grammys."
Learn more about these and other Grammy nominees affiliated with UNT.
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Speakers include President Gretchen M. Bataille, left, who is chair of the Transfer Student Issues Committee of the Council of Public University Presidents and Chancellors. The council is composed of the chief executive officers of Texas publicly-supported general academic universities, system offices and health-related institutions. The conference began six years ago after the Division of Student Development initiated the Institute for the Study of Transfer Students with support from the National Orientation Directors Association. The national group provides education, leadership and professional development in the fields of college student orientation, transition and retention. UNT's strategic planning had indicated both an increasing number of students entering the university after attending two-year community colleges, and a need to better understand the factors that would help them make a successful transition.
Bonita Jacobs, below left, vice president for student development and institute founder, says it is the largest national forum that addresses the specific needs of transfer students.
"It is a clearinghouse for information on transfer students that is available to faculty, researchers and practitioners throughout the country. The institute and UNT are recognized leaders in transfer education initiatives," says Jacobs, who is managing editor of "The College Transfer Student in America: The Forgotten Student." According to UNT's Office of Institutional Research and Accreditation, more than 3,600 of the 34,268 students enrolled in the university for the fall 2007 semester had transferred from other higher education institutions. More than half - about 1,900 - came from campuses in the Collin County Community College, Dallas County Community College, North Central Texas College and Tarrant County College districts.
This year, UNT was ranked eighth in the nation for transfer student enrollment by U.S. News and World Report. The university, which has been in the nation's top 10 for transfer student enrollment for a number of years, continues to attract greater numbers of transfer students each year. In August 2007, the university received a $25,000 Rising to the Challenge grant from the Greater Texas Foundation to create need-based scholarships for transfer students. UNT added $5,000 to the grant to provide awards of $2,000 each to 15 selected students. In addition, Honors College offers scholarships to new students who previously attended another higher education institution, with cumulative grade point averages determining the amount of the scholarships.
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An NBC5 (KXAS-TV) story about UNT's partnership with Thai Rajabhat universities is expected to air the weekend of Jan. 20-21.
President Gretchen M. Bataille was interviewed about UNT leading the effort to help Thailand meet its goal of having 30 percent of its 20,000 Rajabhat University faculty members earn doctoral degrees by 2014. UNT will educate many of these students and also act as the gateway to additional American universities that can provide Thai faculty with doctoral training.
There are more than 1,000 UNT alumni in Thailand.
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President Gretchen M. Bataille will discuss international education, the state of international education across the nation, and the strides made at UNT in a live interview from noon to 1 p.m. Nov. 28 on “Think” on KERA-90.1.
“Think” is an interview program featuring executives, authors, artists, politicians and other local and national opinion leaders. The program is on 90.1-FM, the Metroplex affiliate of National Public Radio.
Jim Falk, president of the World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort Worth, will also be on the program.
Listen live at 90.1-FM or online or download the podcast at www.kera.org.
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Christian Science Monitor
Alan Albarran, professor of radio, television and film, and director, Center for Spanish Language Media, was interviewed by the Christian Science Monitor about the rise of Univision, Spanish language television network. The article appeared Sept. 17.
Albarran also was interviewed on WCCM-AM, Manchester, NH, and Haverhill, Mass., about the growth of Spanish language media.
The Washington Post
Human Behavior columnist Shankar Vendantam discussed a new and unpublished study by Andrew Enterline, associate professor, and J. Michael Greig, assistant professor, both in the Department of Political Science. The Sept. 17 Washington Post column is about the difficulties of imposing democracy on another country. The UNT professors’ study found that one third of all democracies imposed by one nation on another fail within the first 10 years of their establishment
KDFW, Fox4
Cassandra Berry, assistant vice president for equity and diversity, was a panelist on “Insights," a public affairs program on KDFW. The program topic was the Jena 6 case, an on-going investigation involving six African American teenagers accused of beating a white student in Jena, La. The program was broadcast Sept. 16.
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Eric Ligon, associate professor of visual arts, in the College of Visual Arts and Design, and his wife, Leslie Ligon, will be featured on the PBS television show "Reading Rockets," airing at 8:30 a.m. Sept. 2 on KERA-TV. The segment is about reading literacy practices for children with special needs.
You can view this segment:
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/16682
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/16686
Ligon is co-founder of BrailleInk., a nonprofit organization that produces books that can be more easily read by blind and sighted readers. Ligon was inspired by his son, Ethan, who is blind, to create the easy-to-use format of the books.
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David McEntire, associate professor in the emergency administration and planning program, was interviewed by WFLA-AM in Tampa, Fla., and WRBC-FM in Lewiston, Maine, on Aug. 22 and WCCC-FM in Hartford, Conn., on Aug. 25.
McEntire discussed Hurricane Dean, which stuck the Yucatan penninsula of Mexico Aug. 21-22, and the Aug. 29, 2005 anniversary of the day Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast.
The Media Library presents a special screening of “The Storm,” a documentary that investigates the political storm surrounding the devastation of America's Gulf Coast by Hurricane Katrina, one of the most destructive storms in U.S. history.
Showtimes are:
• Aug. 28, 6 p.m., Media Library, Chilton Hall 111C
• Aug. 29, 12 p.m., Media Library, Chilton Hall 111C
• Aug. 30, 12 p.m., Research Park Library, Research Park B112
• Aug. 31, 12 p.m., Research Park Library, Research Park B112
The film is part of the Media Library’s Brown Bag Film Series.
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Jennifer Horst, a student in the Department of Radio, Television and Film master of fine arts degree program, will be interviewed on KERA 90.1 "Think" program Aug. 2, at 1 p.m. Horst will discuss her documentary film, "MUM-A-MIA! The History of a Texas Tradition," which traces the history of homecoming mums in
Two excerpts from the first book in the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Series are tentatively scheduled to be published Aug. 12 and Aug. 19. The book, “William & Rosalie: A Holocaust Testimony," by Craig Hanley, has been published in a collaborative venture between UNT Press and the Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism.
The book recounts a story of love and survival as William and Rosalie Schiff are married in the Krakow ghetto before surviving six Nazi concentration camps. Hanley won a publishing contract for the book at the 2006 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Writers Conference of the Southwest.
UNT in the Media
Article date: 06/12/2008
The University of North Texas has been named among the top 50 colleges and universities in the United States based on the number of degrees conferred to minority students by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education Magazine. The number of minority students earning degrees in the 2006-2007 academic year at UNT increased by 19 percent over the previous year, elevating the university to 46th on the Diverse list. The magazine has produced the list annually for the past 15 years utilizing U.S. Department of Education statistics. For the 2006-2007 academic year 1,117 Native American, Hispanic and African-American students received degrees from UNT, which represented approximately 27 percent of the graduating class. UNT’s Hispanic and African-American enrollment has increased dramatically since 2000 with Hispanic enrollment up 81 percent compared to the state average among colleges and universities of 45 percent. African-American enrollment has climbed 72 percent compared to the state average of 40 percent over the same period. Today, almost 25 percent of the 28,000 undergraduates at UNT are Hispanic or African-American.
Article date: 06/27/2008
Call it a move back to normal growth. After years of rapid home-building north of Loop 820, Fort Worth's population has reached 702,850 according to estimates released Thursday by the North Central Texas Council of Governments. It's a milestone -- the city has more than 700,000 residents for the first time -- but it's tempered by indications that some people are shifting away from buying new homes in outlying neighborhoods and toward apartment rentals in Dallas. Dr. Bernard Weinstein, director of the Institute of Applied Economics at the University of North Texas, is quoted.
Article date: 06/27/2008
Keller officials are retooling the city's economic development program for what may be the last chance to attract select businesses to this increasingly bedroom community. The city is seeking an economic development director, coordinating efforts between elected and appointed officials and city staff, updating strategic plans and launching a marketing campaign aimed at shaking a poor reputation among builders and luring certain businesses to key commercial corridors. Dr. Bernard Weinstein, director for the Center for Economic Development and Research at the University of North Texas, is quoted.
Article date: 06/27/2008
The Lupe Murchison Foundation has donated $1.5 million to support UT Southwestern Medical center's Endowed Scholars Program and medical research. Mrs. Murchison died in 2001, and the Dallas-based foundation was established the same year. A Texas arts patron and civic leader, Mrs. Murchison served on the University of North Texas System board of regents and was one of the school's major patrons. The University of North Texas honored Mrs. Murchison by naming its performing arts center for her in 1998. She also received an honorary doctor of public service and philanthropy degree from UNT.
Article date: 06/25/2008
Angelo Antoline was named the new marketing and communications chair for the Dallas Ad League. Along with managing his own company, he joins the elite Dallas ad industry. Antoline is president and creative director of mundayMorning, a full service and graphic design agency located in Dallas. He brings in new accounts, supervises ad campaigns, makes sure clients are taken care of and more. Antoline graduated from the University of North Texas with a bachelor of fine arts in communication design.
Article date: 06/27/2008
The University of North Texas College of Music will host a guest artist recital featuring cellist Cherry Kim and pianist Artem Belogurov at 8 p.m. Monday in the Recital Hall of the UNT Music Building.
Article date: 06/27/2008
The question seems simple enough, but ask former TWU track coach Bert Lyle what makes a track athlete fast and he can run through the fine details from stride length to split times. It's that knowledge that has made Lyle a valuable member of the U.S. Track and Field program for 40 years. Rick Watkins, University of North Texas head track coach, says that Coach Lyle is very well respected and has been involved in track and field for 30 years.