Regents don't change admissions policy

Actions at the May 17 meeting of the UNT System Board of Regents included approval of a 2003 admissions policy that continues support for automatic acceptance to the top 25 percent of Texas high school graduates.

In other actions, the regents:

• Approved promotions and/or tenure for 45 faculty members and granted tenure to three new faculty appointees. University policy stipulates that the university president may recommend immediate tenure in cases involving senior faculty with outstanding reputations — and usually with tenure elsewhere — who are being recruited by UNT. Click here for a complete listing of those individuals.
  
  
• Approved faculty development leaves for 32 professors.
  
  
• Accepted a faculty workload report certifying to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board that UNT is complying with minimum standard workload requirements.
  
  
• Approved 15 holidays for 2002-03. In addition, regents approved closing the university two additional days in March to allow utility savings for the entire week of Spring Break. Staff members must use vacation or compensatory leave for those days. Five optional state holidays were also approved. Employees may observe one or more of these days by substituting vacation or compensatory leave for one or more of the 15 university holidays or by working on one or more of the university holidays, with supervisory approval.

BY MICHELLE HALE mhale@unt.edu

Other featured articles in this issue

• Pohl named to lead the Sun Belt Conference for two-year term
• UNT, NCTC enter concurrent admission agreement
• UNT alum David Layton named executive director of North Texas Exes
• UNT alumnus honored with 2002-03 Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellowship
• Staff Council reps elected
• Faculty Senate elects officers for 2002-03
• UNT community members earn grants for international education programs
• Staff awards presented at President's Staff Sack Lunch
• Neeley nets UNT Honorary Alumnus Award

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