UNT at Frisco readies to open collaborative campus

[Jonnyeagle]

 

Next spring the University of North Texas will debut the first building of a 100-acre branch campus serving Frisco and the surrounding areas.

It will be the first time Collin County has a Tier 1 Carnegie research institution, officials said, the top tier for a research-focused university.

Frisco Landing, the first building of the new branch, will open for the spring semester next year at the southwest corner of Panther Creek Parkway and Preston Road. When it opens, it will not only showcase a design intended to promote collaboration and communication between students, but also provide a hub for growth opportunities through supporting programs and partnerships, officials said.

“The purpose of the Frisco campus is to close the gap between higher education and employers,” UNT President Neal Smatresk said. “It was designed very intentionally to welcome employers in, to have employers be engaged not just in recruiting students but potentially engaged in helping to develop curriculum or teaching classes, or to be guiding students and helping in their professional development.”
 

read more:  https://communityimpact.com/dallas-fort-worth/frisco/education/2022/10/03/unt-at-frisco-readies-to-open-collaborative-campus/

[PlummMeanGreen]

The UNT System should have focused on their main campus in Denton, med school in Fort Worth & law school in Dallas & that’s it.

 UNT should sell their south Dallas campus to the Texas A&M system & stop fighting their education wars on too many satellite fronts one of which is Frisco.  
Too many seem to think UNT-Denton must be somewhere in southern Oklahoma. What’s going to happen in Frisco could have easily  happened at UNT in Denton.  

GMG!

Edited October 5, 2022 by PlummMeanGreen

[xyresic]

On 10/5/2022 at 7:55 AM, PlummMeanGreen said:

The UNT System should have focused on their main campus in Denton, med school in Fort Worth & law school in Dallas & that’s it.

 UNT should sell their south Dallas campus to the Texas A&M system & stop fighting their education wars on too many satellite fronts one of which is Frisco.  
Too many seem to think UNT-Denton must be somewhere in southern Oklahoma. What’s going to happen in Frisco could have easily  happened at UNT in Denton.  

GMG!

Except it couldn’t, they were able to get something like 100 acres given to them for this project. Frisco is also part of UNT Denton unlike the other things you mentioned. I tend to agree that often the other parts of UNT seem to be a headwind for us as the flagship but Frisco was a homerun imo.

[PlummMeanGreen]

6 hours ago, xyresic said:

Except it couldn’t, they were able to get something like 100 acres given to them for this project. Frisco is also part of UNT Denton unlike the other things you mentioned. I tend to agree that often the other parts of UNT seem to be a headwind for us as the flagship but Frisco was a homerun imo.

No rocket science here, but UNT does not have the financial resources of a  UT system, TAMU system & Texas Tech system to spread at all its campuses in Denton, Dallas, Fort Worth & now Frisco.  

For every major financial gift a UNT-Dallas receives is one that will not go to UNT-Denton. State Senator Royce West pulled a fast one on the UNT system & he knows it. Sell UNT-Dallas to a system that has the resources & can afford it.

Was it the UNT System that previously had plans for TCU to join in on its UNTHSC at Fort Worth? 
 

GMG!

Edited October 7, 2022 by PlummMeanGreen

[Matt from A700]

That's a nice number of huddle rooms!