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Thursday, February 5, 2009 • Cedar Hill Today • Page 3
UNT-Dallas passes enrollment mark to be stand-alone
By GREGORY TOMLIN
Special to Today
The University of North
Texas Dallas Campus has
achieved a critical enrollment
goal in its quest to become the
first public university in the city
of Dallas. Administrators at the
campus have announced that
enrollment has reached 2,333
students, according to unofficial
census figures for spring 2009
(taken on the semester's 12th day
of classes).
Most important for the cam-
pus, however, is the fact that full-
time equivalent student enroll-
ment has risen to 1,032. Under
current legislation, the UNT
Dallas Campus can begin the
process of forming an indepen-
dent university once enrollment
has reached 1,000 FTE. That
would make it the closest four-
year stand-alone university to
Cedar Hill.
John Ellis Price, UNT System
vice chancellor and CEO of the
UNT Dallas Campus, said the
achievement of the campus' FTE
goal is "the most important
accomplishment that this campus
has achieved in propelling us
from a branch campus to status
as an independent university."
"This is what so many who
had the dream of planting an
independent university in Dallas
have worked toward," Price said.
"We have demonstrated the
demand for higher education in
Southern Dallas County and now
we can begin the process of
establishing UNT at Dallas.
Meeting this goal will also
enhance our efforts to secure
transitional funding to open UNT
at Dallas and Tuition Revenue
Bond funding for the second
building in the Texas legislature,
currently meeting in Austin."
Price also said that UNT at
Dallas' independent status will
give the university the ability to
respond to the educational and
workforce development needs of
North Texas and the surrounding
region.
"We are working with our
educational partners to promote
college readiness and student
success, to improve the college-
going rate, and in the future we
will develop degree programs in
emerging fields to fill a growing
number of jobs in professional
fields, industry and health care,"
Price said. "By doing this, we
will be helping Texas achieve its
goals in its 'Closing the Gaps by
2015' higher education plan."
Spring to spring, the increase
in student numbers illustrates a
dramatic rise in enrollment. The
spring 2009 figure of 2,333 stu-
dents in headcount represents a
26.5 percent increase over the
spring 2008 headcount of 1,844.
The 1,032 FTE represents a 34.6
percent increase over the spring
2008 FTE figure of 766.3.
The spring 2009 figure of
2,333 students in headcount rep-
resents a 5.4 percent increase
over the 12th class day headcount
of 2,212 in fall 2008. The 1,032
FTE represents a 5.7 percent
increase over the fall 2008 figure
of 976 (the fall 2008 figure was
originally reported as 959).
Price said that one of the
telling statistics which illustrates
the impact of the UNT Dallas
Campus, as well as the future
potential of UNT Dallas, is the
diversity of the campus' student
body. Among students taking
classes at both UNT in Denton
and the UNT Dallas Campus, 40
percent were white, 32 percent
black and 21 percent Hispanic.
Among students taking classes
only at the UNT Dallas Campus,
32 percent were white, 37 per-
cent black and 26 percent
Hispanic.
"This data reflects the make-
up of the community in which we
serve," Price said. "And it also
sends a signal that the future
University of North Texas at
Dallas will be planted right
where future college students
are. We will be one of the most
diverse campuses in the state,
and perhaps the entire nation."
The first permanent building
on the UNT Dallas Campus site
was occupied in January 2007.
The building sits on 264 acres
near the intersection of I-35E and
1-20 on Houston School Road.
Construction of that building was
made possible by a state bond
initiative of $25.5 million. Ad-
ministrators at the school have
requested $43.5 million for the
campus' second building, and an
additional $6.4 million in transi-
tional funding to hire additional
faculty and staff to serve the stu-
dent growing student population.
The UNT System plans to
open UNT Dallas in 2010. Price
said the vision for UNT Dallas
would not have been possible
without "the unwavering support
of our community, our donors,
our staff and faculty and our area
legislators who also want to see
the dream of UNT Dallas ful-
filled."
Until the Texas Higher Educa-
tion Coordinating Board verifies
enrollment numbers and certifies
them official later in the spring,
all enrollment statistics are unof-
ficial, 12th class day numbers.
The UNT Dallas Campus
operates under the authority of
the University of North Texas in
Denton, the state's fourth largest
university, and is a component
institution of the University of
North Texas System. The campus
currently offers junior-, senior-
and graduate-level courses lead-
ing to bachelor's and master's
degrees. The Campus plans to
open as the University of North
Texas at Dallas, the city's first
and only public university, in
2010.
Gregory Tomlin is director of
marketing, information and news
at UNT-Dallas.
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King also finds time for philanthropy. Last sum-
mer, King, who teaches English, social studies and
Spanish on Northwood's Texas campus, traveled to
Cuba with a non-profit to work in various church-
es north of Havana. Of the 12 people in her group,
only one was fluent in Spanish, giving King the
opportunity to use the Spanish language skills she
gained from years of studying and teaching it. King
knew about life in Cuba from Dallas-area Cubans
who fled to the United States during the 1960s, but
found this firsthand experience gave her a new
appreciation for all things American.
King saw a maternity hospital with no screens
on windows, insufficient anesthesia and antibi-
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she went, knowing how plentiful basic food and
medication are in America. Many of the concepts
of freedom in entry-level philosophy classes were
all the more real, making her realize how much we
have taken such freedoms for granted.
King has been honored with the Faculty
Excellence award twice, in 1982 and 199L
Another particular interest of hers is travel, espe-
cially international. King has visited Brazil, Cuba,
England, France, Spain and Canada.
Lauren D 'Avolio is director of public relations
at Northwood University.
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