DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Fort Worth ISD high school students with dreams of teaching will learn from the pros June 10 – 13 (Monday – Thursday) in the University of North Texas' Future Bilingual Teachers Academy -- a summer camp that responds to the state's growing need for highly qualified teachers of English language learners.

Master teachers will tell the 25 students about careers in bilingual education and show them how to create lesson plans for English language learners. Beyond learning about teaching careers, the students will experience college life by staying in residence...

What:          Violence on Campus: Legal Issues, Practical Actions — A special one-day higher education law conference at the University of North Texas

When:          8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. July 1 (Monday)

Where:        UNT’s Gateway Center, 801 North Texas Blvd.

Cost:  ...

DENTON (UNT), Texas -- Four faculty members and four students from the University of North Texas’ College of Education were honored at the American Counseling Association’s annual conference in Cincinnati. In addition, the UNT chapter of Chi Sigma Iota, the international honor society of professional counseling, also received recognition at the conference.

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DENTON (UNT), Texas— The North Texas Regional P-16 College and Career Readiness Marketing Project, headquartered at the University of North Texas, will host a visit for 60 middle school students on May 3 (Friday) to encourage participation in higher education as part of the state-wide celebration of GenTX day. 

The North Texas Regional P-16 Council works with schools; families; businesses; faith-based groups; local, state and federal agencies; and community organizations to...

DENTON (UNT), Texas – Jeanne Tunks, associate professor in the University of North Texas’ College of Education, will receive the 2013 Claudia A. Balach Teacher Researcher Award at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in San Francisco on April 29 (Monday). She and her colleagues are being recognized for their action research study titled "Reading Non-Fiction Books as an Influencing Factor in Reading Achievement." Tunks also received the same award in 2012.

Tunks teaches courses to seniors at UNT who are preparing to...

What:  Partners in Change: Bridges and barriers to the design and delivery of health messages — Presented by the Department of Educational Psychology in the University of North Texas’ College of Education.

Stephanie Cowan, director of Change for Our Children Limited in Christchurch, New Zealand, will talk about how child care workers, health care workers, parent educators and others can effectively communicate important child care...

DENTON (UNT), Texas – U.S. News and World Report ranked the counseling program in University of North Texas’ College of Education as 13^th in the nation in the student counseling and personnel services category in its recently released 2014 Best Graduate School rankings.

The program was the top-ranked in Texas.

“This ranking reflects the high regard nationally in which our program, our faculty and our students and our staff are held,” said Dr. Janice Holden, chair of the Department of...

What: University of North Texas’ 20th International Conference on Parent Education and Parenting — Prominent speakers from across the nation and world will address parents, professionals and students in one of the nation’s most renowned conferences on parent education.

When: Preconference symposium: April 24 (Wednesday)

Conference: April 25 – 26 (Thursday – Friday)

Where: UNT campus

Cost: Conference fees at: http...

DENTON (UNT), Texas – Dr. Marc Cutright, associate professor of higher education at the University of North Texas’ College of Education and director of UNT’s Center for Higher Education, has been named a Fulbright Scholar to Uganda in the 2013-2014 academic year.

Cutright’s primary appointment will be with Uganda Martyrs University, starting in the fall. At Uganda Martyrs University, he will teach graduate students and further develop a “work college” concept, in which...

DENTON (UNT), Texas – Dr. Carol Hagen, director of the University of North Texas Child Development Laboratory and senior lecturer in UNT’s College of Education, has been named Director of the Year by the National Coalition for Campus Children’s Centers.

“Dr. Hagen is especially noted for combining her academic responsibilities with the demanding but satisfying job of administering your campus laboratory school,” the...