UNT Faculty Staff VIP Experience

[Mean Green Maniac]

Just reporting on the good deeds that the Wren is doing for us employees of UNT! Engaging the campus community beyond just the student population is great!

Edited August 13, 2018 by Mean Green Maniac

[letsgiveacheer]

Excellent plan. If we can't get the student-athletes to the classroom, we'll bring the professors to them! 😀

[KRAM1]

GREAT idea! Reaching out to faculty and staff is an excellent way to help create good feelings between athletics and the campus-wide community as well as possibly getting a few more rears in the seats.  I like! Thumbs up to Wren and crew.

[drex]

Good move, Wren...you have a long way to go with the faculty.  My experience has been that not only do the faculty not support  UNT athletics, but they support and talk up their own alma maters.

[NorthTexasWeLove]

1 minute ago, drex said:

Good move, Wren...you have a long way to go with the faculty.  My experience has been that not only do the faculty not support  UNT athletics, but they support and talk up their own alma maters.

And if caught red handed doing so, they should be given a pink slip on the spot. 

[EagleMBA]

14 minutes ago, drex said:

Good move, Wren...you have a long way to go with the faculty.  My experience has been that not only do the faculty not support  UNT athletics, but they support and talk up their own alma maters.

True, but many will probably show up..."Tailgate lunch in the hub club of Apogee Stadium".

[AustinFromUNT]

1 hour ago, drex said:

Good move, Wren...you have a long way to go with the faculty.  My experience has been that not only do the faculty not support  UNT athletics, but they support and talk up their own alma maters.

This isn’t always the case. I’m a senior now in the biology department and have had several professors who say a lot of good things about UNT. The Biology Department Chair (Dr. Art Goven III) talked about how well our basketball team was doing and encouraged people to go to the CBI games while I was taking his Immunology class. My genetics professor (a graduate of Harvard & John’s Hopkins) told us that he preferred it here over those schools basically because we’re less entitled. My Microbiology professor (Dr. Hughes) attends football games & basketball games. I’ve had GAs/GTs tell us to go to football games “because we aren’t bad anymore”. The perception is changing, but with any change, it takes time.

[drex]

Good to hear the update, AustinFromUNT.