The new University of North Texas Dallas College of Law has no shortage of applicants who want to attend the school, where tuition and fees for an in-state resident cost just $14,540 a year.
The school expected about 350 applicants and got more than 600, the Dallas Morning News reports. About 140 students have enrolled so far.
Former U.S. District Judge Royal Furgeson is founding dean of the law school. He tells the newspaper that the high...
Around the country, fewer people are applying to law school. Then there’s the UNT Dallas College of Law.
It expected about 350 applications for the inaugural class — and got more than 600.
“‘Holy cow’ was our reaction,” said Royal Furgeson, a retired U.S. district judge and founding dean of the new law campus. “It tells you there’s a pent-up demand for law school here.”
The law school, part of the University of North Texas System, has enrolled about 140 students to date. Classes start in August in the UNT System building across from Main Street Garden in downtown Dallas.
UNT’s new law school has drawn...
The University of North Texas at Dallas has introduced its fixed-rate tuition plan, which will offer incoming students who take a full course load a tuition rate that will last for five years.
For students enrolling in fall 2014, the tuition will be $7,650 a year, regardless of whether they opt into the plan. Whenever the tuition is increased in the future, though, those that opt into the plan will still pay $7,650 for their first five years.
“Our DNA here at UNT Dallas is accessibility, and this is certainly going to make UNT Dallas more affordable and more accessible,” UNT Dallas President Ron Brown said. “Many of...
TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Florida A&M University is narrowing its list of candidates for university president.
A university search committee on Monday interviewed six semifinalists for the position. Two candidates were asked to meet with FAMU trustees later this week.
The two chosen were Elmira Mangum, vice president for budget and planning at Cornell University and John Price, the former president of University of North Texas at Dallas.
But the Tallahassee Democrat reported http://on.tdo.com/1dKOeAR former FAMU president...
Editorial writer Jim Mitchell recently talked with new University of North Texas at Dallas President Ron Brown, a former provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Wayne State University in Detroit, about his plans for the only public four-year university south of the Trinity River in Dallas.
What have you learned since you’ve arrived this summer?
I’ve learned how important this university is to the community, how so many people have their hopes in it, all the way from Mayor Mike Rawlings and his GrowSouth initiative to people who live in the area. Other places I’ve been,...
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