Unt - Dallas Going Green?

Stan R · May 15, 2009

Sounds like UNT-D will be going green soon...

An item from the Thursday UNT regents meeting:

spreading the Mean Green colors systemwide to UNT’s Dallas and Fort Worth campuses

I think this one is also pretty big:

selection of a construction manager and architect to construct a “clean room” at Discovery Park

trud1966 · May 15, 2009

Do you have a source for this? Curious to read about the clean room stuff.

Sounds like UNT-D will be going green soon...
An item from the Thursday UNT regents meeting:
spreading the Mean Green colors systemwide to UNT’s Dallas and Fort Worth campuses
I think this one is also pretty big:
selection of a construction manager and architect to construct a “clean room” at Discovery Park

Stan R · May 15, 2009

DRC Link

This is mostly a high level summary though.

ADLER · May 16, 2009

• spreading the Mean Green colors systemwide to UNT’s Dallas and Fort Worth campuses

I hope that means exactly what it sounds like it means.

NT80 · May 16, 2009

I hope that means exactly what it sounds like it means.

Just say NO to:

http://www.iipod-texas.org/images/School%2...TDallasLogo.jpg

http://www.unt.edu/unt-dallas/images/career_logo.jpg

Ibleedgreen · May 16, 2009

This sounds like a slap in the face to the UNT-Dallas students who voted to elect a new mascot and new colors. I prefer Mean Green, too, but that doesn't mean UT Arlington can't be blue...Oh, wait...maybe that is why UTA recently added orange to their blue and white.

ADLER · May 17, 2009

This sounds like a slap in the face to the UNT-Dallas students who voted to elect a new mascot and new colors. I prefer Mean Green, too, but that doesn't mean UT Arlington can't be blue...Oh, wait...maybe that is why UTA recently added orange to their blue and white.

I think all the schools in the UT system now have orange as their primary color, though many have an accent color.

All the branches of LSU are purple and gold, and I believe some of them also may use Tigers as their mascot,

This builds unity for a system.

Until this decision, the multiple campuses of the North Texas system were going to have nothing in common except the same shared Board of Regents.

Go_UTA · May 17, 2009

I think all the schools in the UT system now have orange as their primary color, though many have an accent color.
All the branches of LSU are purple and gold, and I believe some of them also may use Tigers as their mascot,
This builds unity for a system.
Until this decision, the multiple campuses of the North Texas system were going to have nothing in common except the same shared Board of Regents.

The University of California universities use the same colors.

All the UT System schools use some shade of orange in some fashion. (For Arlington, blue is remains dominant in most (but not all) cases. For others, such as UT El Paso, orange is dominant.) Point is, there is a unifying color.

I thought it was a mistake to allow the UNT Dallas campus to go off on their own color scheme. I was surprised when that came out last year. If you want to build a system identity, a system brand (to some extent...because the individual university is still the key), you need a common color scheme. So, to me, it makes sense to nip that in the bud and have them use green.

3XNTGRAD · May 17, 2009

This sounds like a slap in the face to the UNT-Dallas students who voted to elect a new mascot and new colors. I prefer Mean Green, too, but that doesn't mean UT Arlington can't be blue...Oh, wait...maybe that is why UTA recently added orange to their blue and white.

I thought the colors and mascot were all developed by marketing people. Not sure there was ever a student led effort to pick those.

FanofUNT · May 17, 2009

I think it only makes sense to have a university - with its extended campuses to have the same color. I cannot even believe the UNT Dallas Campus has different colors. I think this is a great part of the transistion for branding and marketing for the university.

FirefightnRick · May 17, 2009

I thought the colors and mascot were all developed by marketing people. Not sure there was ever a student led effort to pick those.

Bingo!

Yuk!

Rick

Edited May 17, 2009 by FirefightnRick

DeepGreen · May 17, 2009

Bingo!
Yuk!
Rick

Looks so high schoolish.

meangreendork · May 17, 2009

Bingo!
Yuk!
Rick

Actually, that's entirely the wrong font...and I'd think they'd find a smoother way to put a green in. The current one looks like this:

I'd assume they'd change the color scheme altogether, like green/gold or something. Not sure, though.

NT80 · May 18, 2009

More on the color change at other UNT campuses......

http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/...16.b359760.html

letsgiveacheer · May 18, 2009

Agree that UNTD should incorporate green. The Jaguar name, colors, and logo would be at home at any high school in the country. Why not call the new campus something unique to Dallas, like the UNTD Big Hairs, Consumers, Bible Belters, etc?

Speaking of green, I recently had the privilege of visiting Denton for the first time in almost ten years. What a great job the school has done in maintaining an architectural continuity. This is hard to do and even Duke has become an eyesore as no two buildings look the same. The UNT campus has gone from an ugly duckling to something quite nice!

But for a school that incorporates a color in its nickname, we have a long way to go. I saw hundreds of different shades of green! Even on the same sign there were often two different shades.

While I'm at it, what's with the ads hanging from Fouts? We have managed to make it look even worse.