UNT on the move'

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Annual Update Faculty Senate Gretchen M.
Bataille May 14, 2008
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FY 2009 Budget

• UNT System Board of Regents approved last week
• The budget is based on the spending plan, which
  was created with broad-based input
• All funding was allocated in alignment with the
  Strategic Plan 2006-2011
• Excellence in Student-Centered Education
• Increase Research, Scholarship Creative
  Activity
• Enhancing Institutional Reputation, Community
  Engagement, and Advancement
• Improved Institutional Effectiveness

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Budget HistoryOperating Expenses
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Budget HistoryOperating Revenues
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FY2009 University Funded Financial Aid
Scholarships
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Need-Based Financial Aid

• The 2.8M set-aside revenue, along with an
  estimated 1.4M increase in Pell Grant, and a
  normal annual increase in loan volume will insure
  consistency in meeting 70 of our students' need
  in 2008-2009, as is the case in 2007-2008.

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Need-Based Financial Aid
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FY 2009 Budget

• The budget supports our efforts to improve
  fulfillment of our mission and vision
• UNT is a recognized, world-class university
• We will continue to focus on improving our
  efforts in
• Collaboration
• Internationalization
• Diversity

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• We will continue to grow our research profile
• We will continue to forge new partnerships
• We will continue to improve our reputation and
  private financial support

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2007-08 A year of growth

• Snapshot of Success
• Academic Excellence
• Student Success
• New Partnerships
• International Growth and Progress
• New Initiatives Campus Committees

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Academic Excellence
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Faculty Research

• Research proposals submitted and awards granted
  during the period of September 2007 to March 2008
  increased by 47 percent in comparison of same
  period in FY07.
• This is a significant achievement by our faculty
  and their collaborators in terms of nationally
  competitive awards and grants.

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Faculty Research

• Inventive cross-discipline collaboration and
  student experience are key drivers for the future
  plans of research expansion
• Research Cluster hires
• Discovery Park

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Faculty Research Awards

• Two young faculty Pamela Padilla of Biology and
  Rada Mihalcea of Computer Science and Engineering
  earned NSF CAREER Awards, one of the most
  prestigious awards to junior faculty in the U.S.
  Both also were just tenured.
• One of our chemistry faculty, Guido Verbeck,
  received the Young Investigator Award from the
  Air Force, another of the most competitive awards
  for young faculty.

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Creative Faculty Achievements

• Maestro Anshel Brusilow conducted his final UNT
  Symphony Orchestra concert April 23. So far,
  750,000 has been raised to endow a chair that
  will primarily fund scholarships. David Itkin
  will succeed Brusilow as director of orchestras
  at UNT.
• In April 2008, acclaimed faculty tenor Richard
  Croft sang the lead role in the Metropolitan
  Opera premiere of Phillip Glass opera,
  Satyagraha.

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One OClock Lab Band-Europe

• Neil Slater will conclude his 27-year tenure as
  director of our acclaimed jazz studies program by
  taking the One OClock Lab Band on a tour of
  Europes most famous summer music festivals. Its
  the same tour he led the band through during the
  summer he arrived.

The band performed in Thailand by invitation of
the king in 2004.
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Creative Activities

• The College of Visual Arts and Design will
  present From Power 2 Empowerment An
  International Conference on Critical Literacy in
  Visual Culture, its first-ever visual literacy
  conference, June 6-7.
• Communication design students earned scholarships
  and cash awards totaling 19,775 at two
  conferences in March and April, including the
  Best School Award this weekend at the Dallas
  Society of Visual Communicators 4th Annual
  National Student Show and Conference.

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Weaving Threads of Green

• UNT will celebrate its legacy of artistic
  excellence when 14 Santa Fe art galleries with
  UNT connections open their doors for a gallery
  walk called Weaving Threads of Green UNT in
  Santa Fe.
• More than 1,000 UNT alumni live in the Santa Fe
  area, and many are expected to participate in the
  weekend's events.

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Supporting Excellence

• An article in the Feb. 1 edition of the Chronicle
  of Higher Education drew attention to UNTs
  outstanding endowment growth during the 2006-07
  fiscal year.
• The endowment grew from 67 to 91 million.
• The endowment today is more than 94.3 million.

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Supporting Excellence

• To improve our image and raise our reputation,
  weve strengthened our storytelling.

UNT Presidents Report Discover the power of
ideas.
UNT Research magazine
The North Texan alumni magazine
UNT Insider Presidents newsletter
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Student Success
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Student Success

• Nearly 3,000 students graduated in commencement
  ceremonies
• Two UNT students were named 2008 Barry M.
  Goldwater Scholars, while a third received
  honorable mention status. For the third year in a
  row, more UNT students were named Goldwater
  Scholars and honorable mentions than students at
  any other Texas university.
• A UNT student and two recent graduates received a
  total of 69,000 in Rotary Ambassadorial
  Scholarships for study abroad during the 2008-09
  academic year.
• Vinay Ramasesh, a TAMS student, is one of 40
  students in the nation selected as a finalist in
  the 2008 Intel Science Talent Search. He is the
  ninth TAMS student to be named a finalist since
  1993, and the third since 2006.

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Student Success

• Computer programming teams Knapsackers won a
  world championship at the IEExtreme and the
  Codeboys placed 26th in the global Challenge 24
  competition.
• Moot Court squad ended its competition year with
  two of its two-student teams ranked first and
  second in the state by the Texas Undergraduate
  Moot Court Association.
• Kuntal Cholera was ranked in the top 20 out of
  148 students and higher than any other Texas
  college student at this year's National Debate
  Tournament.

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Emerald Eagle Scholars

• More than 400 Emerald Eagle Scholars enrolled in
  Fall 2007
• Emerald Eagle Scholars on average took more
  credits and finished more credits in the fall
  than the freshman class as a whole
• 12 Emerald Eagle Scholars made 4.0 GPA in the
  Fall and almost 60 made 3.5 or higher
• Data for spring not yet available. However, this
  spring we intervened with the students who did
  not appear on track to finish the year with 30
  hours and a 2.5 GPA or higher.

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Emerald Eagle Scholars

• Although Emerald Eagle Scholars are not
  guaranteed paid tuition and fees in the summer,
  we are offering scholarships for enrolling this
  summer to both current scholars and the new class
  of scholars who are graduating high school this
  spring.
• The endowment supporting the scholars is now more
  than 500,000 after the 2008 Emerald Ball. The
  next Emerald Ball is set for Feb. 28, 2009.

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• The UNT and Denton community together will read
  Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees and explore
  American Identity in an Age of Immigration during
  our inaugural year of One Book, One Community.
• The program will formally launch with the start
  of our fall 2008 semester, though UNT's incoming
  freshmen will begin reading after they receive
  the book during orientation.
• An entire year of activities will engage our
  community in a discussion and exploration of the
  history, politics, and other implications of
  immigration while critically analyzing the text
  for its literary and social value.

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New Partnerships
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UNT and U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency Video Conference, March 6, 2008
Native Russians Baskiria
Native Americans UNT
Native Malaysians Kuching
Native Ugandans Kampala
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New PartnershipsU.S. EPA and UNT

• EPA Region Six is working with UNT on a number
  of initiatives linked to environmental studies
• Second International Indigenous Youth Conference
  on the Environment and Culture
• This summer UNT and U.S. EPA Summer
  Institute/Conference on Indigenous Peoples and
  the Environment
• Memorandum of Understanding between UNT and
  Haskell Indian Nations University
• Ponca Tribes Cumulative Risk Assessment

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Partners in PreservationTexas State Historical
Association University of North Texas

• UNT selected as new home for Texas State
  Historical Association
• Expect TSHA to be in Stovall Hall in Fall 2008
• Having TSHA on campus will strengthen the
  research, education and community profile of UNT.

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T NORTH TEXAS College of
Arts and Sciences and College of Education
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Teach North Texas

• TNT is a collaboration between the College of
  Arts and Sciences and the College of Education in
  the preparation of future high school teachers of
  science, mathematics, and computer science.
• A 2.4M grant from the Communities Foundation of
  Texas as well as the National Mathematics and
  Science Initiative and the UTeach Institute will
  enable UNT to replicate the successful UTeach
  program at UT-Austin.
• UNT was one of 13 institutions nationally
  selected to replicate UTeach.
• UNT will prepare annually at least 60 secondary
  mathematics, science, and computer science
  teachers for North Texas schools, including the
  schools of our project partner, Fort Worth ISD.
• TNT programs of study will enable UNT students to
  complete their content majors and related teacher
  certification programs within four years.
• TNT will invite UNT students, as early as their
  freshman year, to explore teaching through free
  one-credit classes that are financed through the
  endowment.

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Murchison Foundation Scholarships

• 500,000 endowment
• New scholarships for transfer students studying
  math or science
• Preference given to students with an interest in
  high school teaching
• Complements TNT goals

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International Growth and Progress
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International growth and progress

• More than 2,200 international students from 116
  countries study at our Denton, Dallas, and Fort
  Worth campuses.
• Spring enrollment in IELI is 312 students from
  34 countries.
• India, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan send the
  most students to UNT. The Chinese population was
  the fastest growing in 2007-2008.
• Chile
• Thailand
• Mexico
• Encounters Series

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UNT and Chile

• Supported by the Chilean NSF (CONICYT), the
  UNT-Chile Program at Cape Horn is an
  international network for interdisciplinary
  environmental research that integrates science,
  philosophy and policy.
• Construction of the UNT-Chile Field Station at
  Puerto Williams will begin within the year. With
  its Chilean partner, the Institute for Ecology
  and Biodiversity, the station supports
  boundary-crossing environmental research
  opportunities for faculty and students at the
  southern tip of South America.

A group of students is going on a research trip
to the station this month.
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UNT and Thailand

• UNT has a faculty development partnership with 35
  of Thailands Rajabhat universities.
• This makes us Thailands American partner in
  educating its faculty.
• In April, UNT began offering IELI coursework in
  Chang Mai, Thailand.
• Our first such internationally-based operation
• Emerald Eagle Scholars will participate this
  summer in a study abroad program to Thailand.

Thai faculty started English classes in IELI this
year.
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UNT and UAEM (Mexico)

• First PhD student graduated in December
• Dual Masters in Linguistics and ESL offered
• UAEMs sister program for teaching English
  achieved accreditation by CONACYT, the Mexican
  Council for Science and Technology
• Increasing student exchange and mobility
• first UNT undergraduate student enrolled this
  spring at UAEM in a semester exchange program
• Exploring future joint research projects
• involving faculty members
• Facilitating cooperation and interaction
• Participating in the Denton community
• through Hispanic Chamber, Rotary and
• LULAC

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New Initiatives Campus Committees
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Encounters welcomed internationally known
human rights activist and former Dutch
parliamentarian, Ms. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, to campus
in February in partnership with the Dallas World
Affairs Council.Plans for 2008-09 are
underway.
Encounters UNTs International Speaker Series
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New InitiativesSustainability Council

• Appointed in February
• Professor Sam Atkinson is chair
• Inventory efforts toward being an
  environmentally-friendly campus
• Make recommendations for changes that will lead
  to policies and practices related to
  sustainability and to moving toward being a
  green campus

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Sustainability Council

• UNT is the first large public university in
  Texas to sign the American College University
  Presidents Climate Commitment, a growing
  nationwide initiative of college and university
  presidents and chancellors dedicated to
  counteracting climate change by taking steps to
  make their campuses climate neutral.
• We have agreed to complete an emissions
  inventory, set a target date and interim
  milestones for becoming climate neutral, take
  immediate steps to reduce greenhouse gas
  emissions by choosing from a list of short-term
  actions, integrate sustainability into the
  curriculum and make it part of the educational
  experience, and make the action plan, inventory
  and progress reports publicly available.

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Sustainability Council

• The council, which comprises faculty, staff and
  students from a variety of disciplines and
  departments, will undertake the tasks of
  assessing what sustainability efforts are being
  done on campus identifying what other
  initiatives can and should be undertaken to
  promote sustainability and determining how to
  implement the objectives promoted in the American
  College University Presidents Climate
  Commitment.
• UNT already has implemented extensive
  ecologically friendly and energy efficient
  standards, including a policy that any new
  buildings constructed on campus meet the U.S.
  Green Building Council's LEED standard.
• The university also is working to increase the
  environmental consciousness of students, faculty
  and staff.
• - UNT is the first university in the nation to
  partner with The Chiapas Project a nonprofit
  organization designed to help improve the lives
  of women and families in some of the world's
  poorest countries in its Recycle to Eradicate
  Poverty fundraising program.
• - UNT also has instituted Go Green, a campaign
  targeted at providing students living on campus
  with tips and information they can use to become
  better stewards of the environment.

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New InitiativesArt in Public Places

• Formed in December 2007
• Robert Milnes, Dean of CVAD, is chair
• Inventory current holdings
• Develop policies on accession and deaccession
• Develop policies and procedures for campus and
  community involvement to select, acquire and
  place art on campus

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New Initiatives - CALLCenter for Achievement
and Lifelong Learning

• The Professional Development Institute and the
  Center for Continuing Education and Conference
  Management were brought together to establish
  Center for Achievement and Lifelong Learning.
• CALL makes UNTs intellectual, academic, and
  physical resources accessible to working
  professionals and students of all ages.
• CALL promotes UNT as a leading comprehensive
  educational institution through the development
  and delivery of credit and non-credit courses,
  professional development programs, community
  outreach activities, and personal enrichment for
  lifelong learning.

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CALL Activities

• Maximize use of facilities in the summer, on
  weekends, and at night
• Create new audiences for UNT

• Summer camps
• Conferences
• Extension credit courses
• ESL/SAT prep courses
• Outreach programs such as Grandparent University

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• Weve accomplished a lot.
• Weve more to do.
• UNT is on the move.