UNT System

Proposed UNT College of Law

"We were pleased that our proposal was given overwhelming approval in the Texas Senate and unanimous support in the Texas House Committee on Higher Education. We came much farther than in 2005", says UNT System Chancellor Lee F. Jackson.

"Legislators are now aware of the need in our area, and they appreciate our strong financial partnership with the City of Dallas. I remain confident that with the dedicated support of area legislators and the City of Dallas we will receive approval and open a law school in the next several years. We remain committed to providing affordable, public legal education to the citizens of the North Texas region, which is the nation's largest metropolitan area not to have a public law school."

The UNT System continues to develop plans for the College of Law, including further architectural and engineering and renovation work on the old Dallas Municipal Building, and curricular and library planning in consultation with the American Bar Association. Staff is meeting with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board so that when it is ultimately authorized, the UNT System will be ready to move promptly toward enrollment of students in the UNT College of Law in the fall semester of 2010 or 2011.

To learn more about the proposed school - including facts and figures - see our online brochure. To receive new information on the law school as it's released, just fill out our form.

GET INVOLVED!

To find out about how you and/or your firm can support DFW's proposed public UNT College of Law, contact:

Jay Patterson, Co-Chair of the Founders Board
Proposed UNT College of Law
9854 Estate Lane
Dallas, Texas 75238-1963
(214) 533-6433
(214) 343-8303 fax
jayjanp@earthlink.net

Proposed UNTat Dallas Free Standing Institution

The UNT Dallas Campus will become UNT at Dallas, a free-standing institution, when it has 1,000 FTE (full time equivalent) students; it is on target to achieve that landmark this fall (2008).

UNT System Vice Provost John Ellis Price, PhD, CPA presented a progress report at the February Board of Regents meeting that includes numerous statistics including faculty and student body demographics as well as plans for expanding services, courses, faculty and staff over the next year. You can download the report in PDF format.

For more information, you can also download the UNT at Dallas Master Plan and the UNT at Dallas Academic Plan. To support our goals with a financial contribution click here.