Dear UNT supporter,

For more than 130 years, UNT has helped students find their flight path. With 244 degree programs and fields of study, UNT offers something for everyone. Some students start at UNT laser-focused on a specific career path and confident in their choice of major, but most students need help exploring majors and discovering career opportunities.

To help all students find the major that's the right fit for them, we've developed a three-step Exploring Majors Action Plan that encourages students to reflect on their skills and interests, research majors, and discover careers prior to declaring a major. Our new Find Your Flight Path initiative allows prospective and current students to hear from more than 30 successful UNT alumni to explore careers and determine how choosing a certain major can translate into a career. In short three-minute videos, alumni share their personal stories about choosing a major, being a UNT student, and how they've achieved professional success.

The Find Your Flight Path video series, coordinated by Advising Services and the UNT Alumni Association, increases our students' exposure to career fields, encourages student retention, and highlights that all trajectories are not linear. A few of the alumni sharing their stories include Mayborn alumna Angela Jones ('91), a 26-year banking industry executive who also launched a successful career as an author and ghostwriter in the last decade, and physicist Patrick Abbott ('96, '98 M.S., '02 Ph.D.) who creates spectrometers that are used in semiconductor processes as senior application scientist at Verde Instruments. The series also highlights Air Force veteran Larry Bailey ('81), who says the foundational knowledge he gained from UNT's computer science program led to his successful career. Working with the UNT Career Center helped mechanical and energy engineering graduate Sara Peña ('16) discover the field of sales engineering, one where she has excelled and advanced into progressive leadership roles.

We're always interested in hearing from alumni and learning how your UNT experience prepared you for career success. If you'd like to share your experience, email president@unt.edu so we can connect you with our marketing and alumni offices.

UNT Proud,
Neal Smatresk
President
@UNTPrez