Oct.
4, 2002
Volume 11, Number 18
Pohl launches e-newsletter to communicate with UNT alumni, friends
Beginning this month, UNT President Norval Pohl is reaching out to graduates and friends of the university through their inbox rather than their mailbox. Pohl is launching North Texas Insider, an e-mail newsletter full of short, fun, interesting facts about UNT.
Department
of Veterans Affairs chooses UNT business college to develop cyber security
The
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs awarded a two-year contract of $978,000
to the UNT College of Business Administration to help establish a cyber
security project management office within the VA.
Contract
review process hits new high —
help needed to keep up with trend
According
to UNT policy, all proposed contracts for goods and services must
be reviewed by the Office of the Vice Chancellor and General Counsel
before they can be executed.
Interim
title holders named to positions permanently
For the past two years, Joneel Harris and Lynn McCreary have served as interim associate vice president for enrollment management and interim registrar, respectively. UNT administrators decided to make their appointments permanent as of Sept. 1.
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| Celebrating 10 years — (Above) Myra Walker, left, professor of visual arts and director of the Texas Fashion Collection, and Joan Jackson, wife of UNT System Chancellor Lee Jackson, attended a reception Sept. 29 celebrating the School of Visual Arts' 10th anniversary. The reception was in the sculpture garden at the Dallas home of Raymond Nasher, chair of the SOVA advisory board. (Below) One of the sculptures in Nasher's garden collection. |
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Student
development faculty, staff have new way to demonstrate UNT pride
In
connection with Friday Pride Day —
wearing green on Fridays to show support for UNT —
the Staff Development Committee within the Division of Student Development
has implemented TGIF, a spirit contest that stands for Think Green,
It's Friday.
Campus
Catalog settles into new location
If you can't find the J.C. Penney Campus Catalog, just look around the corner from its old location on the third floor of the University Union — Campus Catalog is now in the former location of Wells Fargo Bank, which now occupies the space that once housed Campus Catalog.
SLIS book drive to benefit
library in Thailand
Carol
Simpson, professor of library and information sciences, is looking for
children's books to start a new library in the town of Chiang Rai,
Thailand.
Faculty Senate kicks off 2002-03 year
The UNT Faculty Senate held its first meeting of the 2002-03 academic year Sept. 11. Senators listened to a presentation made by Lee Jackson, the new UNT System chancellor, who was in his 10th day on the job.
Season tickets are on sale through Oct. 16 for the Department of Dance and Theatre Arts' 2002-03 season. The package includes five shows for $32 for faculty and staff members.
Contemporary women's issues writer to speak at UNT Oct. 9
Sharon Oard Warner, whose fiction depicts women encountering both sad truths and opportunities for triumph in their daily lives, will read selections from her works at UNT Oct. 9.
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