January 11, 2002 UNT Inhouse publication: Hurley reappointed to citizens council board

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Hurley reappointed to citizens council board

The Dallas Citizens Council reappointed UNT System Chancellor Alfred F. Hurley to its 2002 board of directors. Hurley joined the council board in January 2000.

"I am grateful for the opportunity to serve with so many outstanding business and civic leaders on the Dallas Citizens Council board of directors," Hurley says. "What pleases me most is that this appointment represents a significant recognition of the increasingly important role of the UNT System in Dallas."

In 2001, the Texas House and Senate unanimously passed the UNT-Dallas bill that statutorily established UNT at Dallas. On May 8, Gov. Rick Perry came to the UNT System Center at Dallas to sign the legislation into law. Then, in late November, the city of Dallas purchased approximately 202 acres in the Interstate 20 corridor of southern Dallas and immediately deeded it to the UNT System for the development of the first public university inside the Dallas city limits. This fall, enrollment at the System Center topped 1,000 students for the first time.

The leaders of many of the greater Dallas metropolitan area's most prominent businesses and organizations comprise the Dallas Citizens Council. Its purpose is to promote a favorable business climate and a good quality of life for all Dallas metropolitan-area citizens.

In addition to Hurley, UNT Regent Tom Lazo and former Regent Richard Knight Jr. also were reappointed to the Dallas Citizens Council board. Lazo is president and CEO of Custom Programming Services Inc. Knight is president of Knightco Oil Inc.

Hurley is a former chairman of board of the North Texas Commission. He has been a board member with the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce and chair of the Council of Presidents of the Alliance for Higher Education in North Texas. He also is an ex-officio member of the Denton Chamber of Commerce.