Well, people in Dallas looking to pursue higher
education now have one more option
to consider.
Today, the new University of North Texas Dallas
campus opened.
More than 1,500 full and part-time students can
now enjoy their new modern home South
of the Trinity River.
Just one building opened today.
Many more will follow in a few years.
This university and all these other magnificent
projects that are going on in the city right
now will finally eliminate the distinction
between northern Dallas and southern Dallas.
The campus will eventually be called the
University of North Texas at Dallas.
The public university can't officially be
started until a few hundred more full-time
students enroll.
The skeptics once claimed southern Dallas did
not need a public university and lacked
the students to support it.
Today, the University of North Texas Dallas
opened the doors on its first permanent building,
its strongest argument so far that the skeptics
were wrong.
News 8's Gary Reeves reports.
This is the sixth year for the University of
North Texas at Dallas, but day one in the
new building.
For students like Kendall Rainwater, a big
difference from the temporary campus in a
warehouse district.
Now you have actually, we have something that
we call home.
It's not just a building.
You know, it's actually a campus where you have
a library and different resources.
With 1,500 students taking at least one course,
the school isn't a university until it gets
a thousand full-time.
But it is growing fast, proving that southern
Dallas does need a public university.
It'll probably be the largest employer in 15 or
20 years.
We project it'll have 15,000 students before
too long.
This campus is so high-tech it even has three
of these video conference classrooms.
Here, students can be taught by a professor up
at the main campus in Denton and he has
remote control over a camera so he can even
zoom in and have a conversation with the students
face to face.
And they are already recruiting.
For this open house, invitees included middle
and high school students from Dallas and its suburbs.
I always wanted to go to a different state for
college, but this seems like really nice.
So nice their teacher took a break from the
tour to enroll to get her master's degree.
This campus is 15 minutes away from my job and
20 minutes away from my house.
Setting an example she hopes every one of her
students will follow.
Gary Reeves, Chenele News.
A milestone today for the University of North Texas.
The school formally opened its Dallas campus on
Houston School Road.
This is near Camp Wisdom.
The Dallas campus enrolled more than 1500
students last semester and UNT figures show
that full-time enrollment is up nearly 10% from
just a year ago.
A celebration in Dallas today as students and
community leaders were welcomed to the
brand new University of North Texas Dallas campus.
As we get more students at the campus we will
have a demand for more buildings and that
means more faculty and staff members will have
to be hired and so it's going to be an
economic boom for this area.
It's going to change the landscape of the
Dallas region but of the southern sector of
Dallas in particular.
And even though it's chilly outside, today
officially marks the first day of the spring semester.
The Dallas campus of the University of North
Texas is officially open for business.
University and city officials were on hand for
the ribbon cutting this morning.
More than 1500 students are taking classes this
year at the campus on Houston School Road.
Now bigger plans are in the works.
This university and all these other magnificent
projects that are going on in the city right
now will finally eliminate the distinction
between northern Dallas and southern Dallas.
And when the campus is complete it will get a
new name, the University of North Texas
at Dallas.
It will be freestanding and the university
rather than a branch and it will be the first
freestanding public university in the Dallas
city limits.
The University of North Texas at Dallas has a
new look tonight.
There it is.
The school showed off its new brand today which
features a jaguar in bold colors and
that new logo you see there.
The new look will be used on campus
publications, letterhead, signage and clothing.
A blue and gold jaguar is the new symbol for
the University of North Texas at Dallas.
The new campus showed off its new brand yesterday.
UNT Dallas will become a separate university in
a few years.
In the meantime, students will receive their
degrees through UNT in Denton.