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I wish this horse would die.
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I went and talked to her afterwards in DC. I really enjoyed the event, the Embassy even had a buffet for us
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When did the Comets get a football team? The OU schedule post says Texas at Dallas?
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I get to meet her next week at her event at the Saudia Arabian Embassy in DC! I think she is doing a great job, she has already accomplished many things at North Texas.
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Dallasnewsimage
For college, jaguar is the top cat
UNT Dallas: Campus picks its mascot and also chooses school colors
08:13 AM CST on Friday, January 12, 2007
By HOLLY K. HACKER / The Dallas Morning News
It may not be a free-standing campus yet, but the University of North Texas at Dallas now has school colors and a mascot to call its own.
With great flourish, UNT officials announced Thursday that the Dallas colors are blue and gold, and the mascot is the jaguar (the animal, not the car).
Finding the right mascot is serious stuff.
"The brand for UNT Dallas represents a unique identity for this campus that will become a separate university in the years ahead," Lee Jackson, chancellor of the UNT System, said in a prepared statement. "The marks are designed to encourage public awareness of the unique qualities of the institution."
The announcement is timed with Tuesday's opening of the first permanent building at UNT Dallas, at Camp Wisdom and Houston School roads in southeast Oak Cliff.
Since 2000, when the campus opened, classes have been held at another site on South Hampton Road.
UNT Dallas needs 1,000 full-time students before it can be a free-standing institution that grants its own degrees. Current full-time enrollment is 615 students, so, for now, it remains an extension of the main UNT campus in Denton.
UNT System officials, with help from students, professors and civic leaders, put considerable thought into the color and mascot decisions.
"Blue is a calm and cool color, so it communicates confidence and intelligence and creativity," said Deborah Sue Leliaert, UNT vice president for university relations. She said it also conveys loyalty (think true blue) and top quality (think blue ribbon).
There's a reason the second color is gold and not yellow. "Gold is precious, and it communicates prosperity and wealth and power," Ms. Leliaert said.
And officials purposely avoided green, the color of UNT in Denton, to avoid confusion and help UNT Dallas stand on its own. That's in contrast with the University of Texas System, in which the colors for all nine campuses must include orange.
As for the jaguar, UNT officials say it's energetic, powerful and graceful – and, to boot, indigenous to Texas.
Don't look for blue-and-gold jaguars on football helmets or jerseys anytime soon, though. UNT Dallas has no athletic teams, though there are plans to start some intramural sports.
For now, the new images will appear on UNT Dallas materials, including stationery and clothing.
UNT folks from Dallas, Denton and the system celebrated with an invitation-only "branding event" at the Oak Cliff Country Club. They handed out T-shirts, backpacks and other freebies with the new logo. Earlier, a CD with several versions of the logo and five digital sound files of a roaring jaguar was given to the media.
"It's important to launch this and launch this in a big way," Ms. Leliaert said, "because it's a milestone in the creation of a new university."
E-mail hhacker@dallasnews.com
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I am an account executive for a boutique advertising agency in Washington DC....
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I am thrilled at the news. I think the best hire for North Texas was Gretchen. Her national tour in combination with a lot of the initiatives she has already put in motion set a tone that North Texas means business. I live in DC and can't wait to meet her in January and hear about all the great things going on in Denton. And yes I am taking my checkbook with me because I know these things aren't magic.
With this hire on the athletics side it looks like we are finally on track to really becoming world-class. Not going to happen overnight but in about five years all corners of the country and many parts of the world will have heard of the Mean Green.
Go Gretchen!
Go Dodge!
Go Mean Green Nation!
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I think it interesting the notable absent college from this list is the largest (Arts and Sciences).
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BA '03 Journalism
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Seriously, I don’t think any of us would be sad. I have no doubt that Gretchen would bring someone top-notch in for that position.
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FAMU presidential search down to six
Originally published December 6, 2006
By Diane Hirth
DEMOCRAT SENIOR WRITER
Six candidates for the presidency of Florida A&M University are in the mix.
After a long, frank discussion this afternoon by the FAMU presidential search committee, the field - narrowed first from 36 formal applicants to 12 candidates by a private search firm - focused on the six semi-finalists.
Five have more traditional academic credentials and one would bring ambassadorial experience.
They are:
* James Ammons, North Carolina Central University president and former FAMU provost.
* Lawrence Davenport, Florida Atlantic University executive vice president for university advancement and FAU Foundation executive director.
* Howard Johnson, University of North Texas provost and vice president for academic affairs.
* Larry Palmer, The Inter-American Foundation president and CEO, and former U.S. ambassador to Honduras.
* Patricia Pierce Ramsey, Bowie State University provost and vice president for academic affairs.
* Thelma Thompson, University of Maryland Eastern Shore president
The search committee, headed by the Rev. R.B. Holmes Jr. and Laura Branker, both FAMU trustees, made the decision on possible presidents with input from board of trustees Chairwoman Challis Lowe.
The six candidates will be interviewed in person next week by the search committee, which then will shrink the prospective presidents list to three people.
For more on this story, please read tomorrow's Tallahassee Democrat
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UNT swimming coach's contract not renewed
09:57 PM CDT on Monday, April 17, 2006
By BRETT VITO / Denton Record-Chronicle
DENTON – The contract of swimming and diving coach Mona Nyheim-Canales was not renewed after the 2005-06 season, athletic director Rick Villarreal confirmed.
Nyheim-Canales spent four years at UNT and led the Mean Green to a fifth-place finish in a field of seven in the Sun Belt Conference championship in February.
Villarreal said assistant coach Maya Nikolova will work with the team in the off-season and continue recruiting. Villarreal hopes to have a new coach in place in the next two weeks.
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I hear and feel ya. It hurt when football sank this past season but I had hope when BB was on role and drove to Denton to see the USA game and it all came to a screaching halt. Now, we are suppose to wait another year for DD and JJ to prove to us they really really suck...can't wait
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And people still want to fire Slinker....good job women's!!!!!
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Regarding Slinker, we need to keep in mind that she does have a 17-8 season in a really good conference. Sagarin has the Sun Belt women's BB conference ranked 11th above the likes of Conf. USA, MAC and WAC....
I don't think we can compare her situation to JJ.
DD has us ranked really low in the worst football conference and JJ's has us in the middle of an average men's BB conference (18th of 32 per sagarin)...
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Finally made it to a game this year! Unfortunatley we lost
Great crowd though!
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So there with a buddy!
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Ok, this is my first BB game. Only go to football but i want to see what all the fuss is about. How much are tickets and is it open seating?
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More exposure for North Texas!
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This is what makes North Texas, North Texas. Thank you Rick for taking time to communicate with us. I love that North Texas fosters an enviroment and culture where administrators are approachable, responsive, caring and honest. This is why I went to UNT and why I will forever bleed green.
GMG!!!
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As much as a lot of us hate it, I think it's working. Our new image is hitting home with a lot of high school kids. This kids quote is what we all have been trying to establish for a long time.
Also, I don't know how many of you keep up with the news but someone is doing a lot of work in Denton. I have seen a lot of positive news stories about UNT in the past few weeks (minus the whole football thing).
Go Mean Green!!!!
Marketing a brand-new U.
By PATRICK McGEE
STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER
Allan Saxe is a local philanthropist with conservative leanings. Camesha Ethley is a 17-year-old senior at the top of her class at Seguin High School. She likes basketball and hip-hop rapper Jay-Z.
Universities are scrambling to get the attention of both.
Donors such as Saxe have deep pockets to pump up a university's endowment. Students like Ethley have the credentials to boost a university's academic profile.
University officials have long hammered away at talking points that highlight their strengths and success stories. They've poured millions of dollars into sprucing up the appearance of their campuses and they've mastered the art of doting on donors and students with strong academic records.
To attract more folks like Saxe and Ethley, higher education officials are doing more to polish their brand name.
"Institutions are gradually realizing that as the market becomes more sophisticated, they need to become more sophisticated in how they relate to it," said Larry Lauer, Texas Christian University's vice chancellor of marketing and communication.
Ethley and her classmates have mixed opinions about brands' influence on their impressions. Ethley said she has positive images of the University of Texas at Arlington and the University of North Texas, family members' alma maters, but those images can't eclipse her hopes for admission to a more selective school farther from home. Her top choice is Rice University in Houston.
One of her classmates, Cindy Nguyen, 17, doesn't think branding matters much.
"We're high school students. We don't think about that," she said.
With a Top 25 football team, and offering one of the few private-school educations in the county, TCU has a lot to market to prospective students and donors. TCU advertises on local radio and in regional magazines.
Branding an image is just as important to the universities of Arlington and North Texas.
UNT has one of the top music programs in the country. It recently spent nearly $150,000 developing its new brand. UT-Arlington, known for its strong engineering and business programs, is conducting secret meetings with a high-profile advertising agency to put the finishing touches on a new brand.
A lot is at stake, and the amount of thought that goes into every detail -- the shape of letters, the shades of color -- is mind-numbing, officials said.
UNT assistant design professor Eric Ligon said the space between the letters in "North Texas" in the logo he helped design portrays the university's openness. He said the tips on the ends of the letters give the UNT brand a more academic feel. They went through about 3,000 variations until UNT's top administrators felt they had the right look. "It gives it a sense of energy," Ligon said.
Can fretting so much over the color and shape of letters make a difference?
Saxe said a university's image probably affects his giving.
"I'm not a psychologist, but I really believe there is a subliminal effect. It's advertising," Saxe said. He has donated to UNT, TCU and UT-Arlington, where he is an associate professor of political science.
Shawn Ballard, 17, a senior at Seguin High School, said he was impressed by literature he received about UNT in the mail.
"I like UNT's logo. It's real clean, and it stands out," he said.
Seguin senior Shawn Zark said he went to a football game at UNT and saw the logo and school colors everywhere. It was unmistakable to him that this was a school with strong traditions.
"The first thing that comes to mind about UNT is the tradition," he said. "Big Green and all that."
UNT essentially came up with two brands -- an academic brand for the formal letterhead that faculty use for grant applications, and a "spirit" brand that Zark saw at the football game and Ballard saw in the UNT mailing.
Some of the high school seniors said they see UT-Arlington as a commuter school, something that makes officials there cringe. But UT-Arlington and UNT have the same portion of their student body living on campus, 17 percent.
Saxe said UNT has escaped the commuter-school image at least partially because of the spirit-building football games, where the stadium seats are a sea of that green UNT brand.
"UNT is as much a commuter school as we are," Saxe said. "The funny thing is a school gets an image, and it's hard to break out of that image."
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Embry Riddle
in Mean Green Football
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Many of us credit Pohl for having the vision to bring North Texas athletics into its new state of maturity. As Bataille approaches the end of her first year, Pohl moves on.
http://www.erau.edu/er/newsmedia/newsreleases/2007/pohl.html
Norval Pohl Joins Embry-Riddle as Chancellor of Prescott, Arizona, Campus
Prescott, Ariz., May 21, 2007 -- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has selected Dr. Norval F. Pohl to be chancellor of the Prescott, Ariz., campus. He will start on July 1.
Pohl joins Embry-Riddle from the University of North Texas (UNT), where he served as President for six years and preceding that as Provost and Executive Vice President for two years.
At Embry-Riddle, Pohl will serve as the Prescott campus’s chief administrative officer, responsible for leading a campus of more than 1,650 students and nearly 400 employees. He will oversee the full range of the campus’s academic, operational, and professional arenas and set its strategic direction in areas such as business operations, admissions, academic support, public relations, financial aid, athletics, and student life. Other responsibilities include leadership at the cabinet level, philanthropic initiatives, and external relationships with government and industry.
“Dr. Pohl brings tremendous energy and excitement concerning student success and is a great asset for the campus. His experience has ranged from teaching at Yavapai College to multiple deanships in Arizona, Nevada, and most recently President of the University of North Texas with a population of 33,000 students. He also brings a passion for Arizona. We are thrilled to welcome him as Chancellor to the Embry-Riddle and Prescott communities,” says Don Rabern, Dean of the College of Engineering at the Prescott campus and chair of the chancellor search committee.
Pohl was the Vice President for Finance and Administration and before that the Dean of the College of Business and Economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. From 1981 to 1986, he was the Dean of the College of Business Administration at Northern Arizona University, and from 1978 to 1981, he was the Assistant Dean of Undergraduate/Graduate Programs for the College of Business at Arizona State University.
“The dramatic enhancements to the Prescott campus made under Chancellor Carrell’s leadership have created a spectacular setting for students and a special place of pride for alumni and friends,” Pohl said. “For Embry-Riddle Prescott, not even the sky can limit our dreams and aspirations.”
Pohl earned a Ph.D. in Quantitative Systems from Arizona State University and both an M.B.A. in Management and a B.A. in Psychology from California State University, Fresno.
“Dr. Pohl brings a wealth of academic and administrative experience to the chancellor position,” said Dr. John Johnson, President of Embry-Riddle. “We look forward to Norval joining the Embry-Riddle family and leading the Arizona campus.”
Pohl replaces retiring Chancellor Dan Carrell who announced in January he would leave the position and return to teaching.
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the world’s largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, offers more than 30 degree programs in its colleges of Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Engineering. The university educates more than 34,000 students annually in undergraduate and graduate programs at residential campuses in Prescott, Ariz., and Daytona Beach, Fla., through the Worldwide Campus at more than 130 centers in the United States, Europe, Canada, and the Middle East, and through online learning. For more information, visit www.embryriddle.edu.