Aug.
19 , 2003
Volume 12, Number 15
Regents to consider
2004 budget
Even
though the Legislature faced a $9.9 billion deficit, UNT is recommending
a budget with a modest increase of 2 percent for its 2004 educational
and general funds to the Board of Regents at its Aug. 21 quarterly meeting.
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| Mean Green machine — Mike Bugar, assistant football coach, times Mean Green football players running a drill during practice Aug. 8. The Mean Green season gets under way Aug. 30 when the team takes on the University of Oklahoma in Norman. |
UNT
names provost and vice president for academic affairs
UNT successfully concluded a nine-month, nationwide search recently by selecting Howard C. Johnson of Syracuse University as its new provost and vice president for academic affairs.
Johnson, who currently is executive vice provost for academic affairs at Syracuse, has served that university in a number of teaching, scholarly and administrative roles for 30 years.
UNT names Davison interim vice president
for development
Brent
E. Davison, assistant vice president for development for UNT, began serving
as interim vice president for development Aug. 1.
Davison will serve as the university's chief fund raiser on an interim basis while UNT conducts a national search for a new vice president for development. He replaces David Shrader, who has led the operations of the Office of Development since Spring 2001. Shrader retired from full-time duties at the university July 31.
TAMS gets $87,000 grant from TI Foundation
The Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science has received $87,100 from Texas Instruments' TI Foundation to support the program during the 2003-04 academic year.
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UNT's
NAACP chapter earns national recognition
Competing with more than 100 college chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the 157-member chapter at UNT was honored with the Youth and College Division Outstanding College Chapter Award at the association's national convention July 11-17 in Miami.
UNT
professor warns of potentially unhealthy eating environment in schools
Every day parents send their kids to school with lunch money, and many may never realize the hefty competition for that money.
"Most parents assume that lunch is a tray with fruit, vegetables, milk, breads and meat," says Priscilla Connors, registered dietitian and UNT assistant professor of merchandising and hospitality management. "But besides the school breakfast and lunch programs, there are vending machines and á la carte sales that can turn a school cafeteria into a mall food court."
Professor
talks about USA PATRIOT Act's effect on libraries
Of all
the applications of the USA PATRIOT Act (Uniting and Strengthening America
by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism),
the least expected may be its use to track and observe reading habits
of library patrons.
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Anti-smoking
CD-ROM is cool to Texas middle schoolers
Some of
the students serving detention in Austin's middle schools watch a cartoon
image of a seventh-grader named Gabe. As Gabe smokes a cigarette, nicotine
— disguised as a
villain — attacks
his body and brain.
The
cartoon is one of many images included on "Unfiltered: Exposing the
Truth Behind a Pack of Lies," a multimedia CD-ROM designed to prevent
students in grades six through nine from starting smoking and to help
students who have already started smoking to quit.
More
pharmacy benefit changes, some already effective
According to Medco Health, the company that manages UNT employees' pharmacy benefits for HealthSelect of Texas, a combination of higher costs and lower state funding has prompted some cost-cutting measures for the prescription drug plan. Four major changes are affecting the prescription drug plan — some are different from changes previously reported.
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smell of tar in the University Services Building.
If you have a comment, complaint or compliment about the university, call Answer Line at (940) 565-4100 and leave your remarks on the recording.
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