Dear Alum,
As UNT's president, I am committed to making our university a first-choice institution. This means supporting our students' success, championing our alumni's achievements and matching our resources with the needs of our partners. While we're focused on offering the best educational experience, we also must be accountable and transparent with our resources.
As you've likely heard, UNT has recently faced budget and fiscal problems. We are resolving these challenges, and our new vice president for finance and administration Bob Brown — who by the way is a UNT alumnus — is off to a great start. Our team is on a five-track path to putting UNT on the cutting edge of higher education management. In short, we're embracing this as an opportunity to get better.
We're also making sure that our strengths match industry needs. We're growing our programs in areas like IT, logistics, informatics and big data, and we're mining the potential of our fast-growing College of Engineering.
And we are giving students the opportunity to access an array of technologies and to tap into a world of knowledge and expertise. We're focused on students, quality and excellence — and always will be.
I look forward to sharing my vision and priorities with each of you through this newsletter. And now that I've joined the wonderful world of Twitter, I hope you'll follow me @UNTPrez to stay more in tune with the UNT community.
UNT proud,
Neal Smatresk
President
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