DALLAS – Undergraduate students interested in the fields of business, education, sociology and criminal justice will automatically receive a $2,500 scholarship when they enroll in 15 credit hours of daytime classes at the University of North Texas Dallas Campus in the Fall 2008 semester. Students who take 12 credit hours in business and education will receive a $2,000 scholarship.
Students must meet the admissions requirements of the UNT Dallas Campus and be academically qualified before receiving the scholarship. Each student who receives the benefit will be admitted to a “Daytime Cohort,” in which the students share the same classes in the Fall 2008 schedule. The scholarship is renewable for the Spring 2009 semester if eligibility requirements are met.
Raul Hinojosa, coordinator of recruitment, community and school relations at the UNT Dallas Campus, said the scholarship “creates unique opportunities for those who have been students at area community colleges, as well as for non-traditional students transferring to the campus.”
“The scholarship creates an incentive to take a full load of classes in the daytime hours, which is a more traditional model for college students. By being in a daytime cohort, there is also a strong sense of collegiality created among students. This sort of program has worked well at the graduate level and, as a result, we wanted to offer the benefit to daytime students.”
Applications for the Daytime Incentive Program, or “daytime cohorts,” are available online at www.unt.edu/dallas/daytimecohort.htm. The application deadline is June 15.
Gloria Bahamon, director of student services at the UNT Dallas Campus, said the emphasis on daytime enrollment marks a transitional period for the campus, which occupied its new, 76,000-square-foot building on Houston School Road in January 2007.
“Our evening classes are almost always at maximum capacity because of our convenient location. Many people on their way home take advantage of our programs. But there are as many as 25,000 students at Dallas County Community College District near us that could take advantage of programs like this to complete their bachelor’s degrees in normal daytime hours,” Bahamon said.
In addition to business, education, human services management and leadership, sociology and criminal justice, the UNT Dallas Campus offers programs in information technology, mathematics, and public affairs and community service. Information is available online at www.unt.edu/unt-dallas/programs.htm.
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 leading to bachelor’s and master’s degrees. The Campus will become freestanding and open as UNT Dallas, the city’s first and only public university, by 2010.
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