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[Clipping: Women discuss roles in cultures]

Description: Newspaper clipping featuring article, "Women discuss roles in cultures," by Alicia Miller for the North Texas Daily published Tuesday, November 19, 1996. The article is in regards to women's roles as well as discussing women's equal pay and equal opportunities.
Date: November 19, 1996
Creator: Miller, Alicia
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[The Role of Art in Higher Level Thinking]

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on the upcoming FORTE meeting, October 9th where guest speaker Dr. William McCarter will be discussing "The Role of Art in Higher Level Thinking." FROTE is an alliance of parents, teachers, students, administrators and board trustees dedicated to enhancing education for gifted and high achieving students.
Date: October 6, 1996
Creator: Grapevine Sun
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Artist at work

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring a photograph of elementary students from Tomas Rivera Elementary School. In the photograph is student, Amber Jackson who is standing on chairs to work on a mural on the school wall.
Date: May 15, 1996
Creator: Ludlum, Barron
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Big grant Boost arts

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Dr. Jack Davis, who is the dean of the School of Visual arts. Davis hopes that a $4.3 million dollar grant will show public schools that an education based on the arts increases student achievements in all fields. Davis is also co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, an art education consortium, whose belief is that visual image is a powerful learning tool.
Date: April 20, 1996
Creator: Huckabay, Jennifer
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Links with other institutions benefit university

Description: A newsletter clipping featuring collaborations that the University of North Texas has been participating in. One such example is UNT"s collaboration with educational institutions, including the highly regarded initiative with public schools and art museums, the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts.
Date: May 1996
Creator: In House
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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NT honors art director with fine arts doctorate

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Dr. Edmund "Ted" Pillsbury, director of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, by presenting him with an honorary doctor of fine arts degree. Dr. Pillsbury received his art history degree from Yale University and his doctorate from the University of London's Courtauld Institute of Art, but his outstanding support of the arts in North Texas deserved him recognition.
Date: March 28, 1996
Creator: Connolly, Christine
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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An Assessment Strategy: Fun & Games

Description: A newsletter clipping featuring an article on a computer game titled "ART-GO," a reworking design of Bingo. Art-Go was designed to encourage a synthesis of ideas in the form of art thinking and art talking, a solution to the artist assessment problem - to measure the art cognition. The object of Art-Go, to develop observational skills and expressive dialogue that demonstrates what art concepts students understand or mis-understand.
Date: October 1996
Creator: School Arts
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Annenberg Foundation challange grant sends $1.43 million to UNT arts education group

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, one of the six recipients nationally of a $4.3 million challenge grant announced by the Annenberg Foundation. The grant goal is to reform public schools using a bold program of arts education. The grant will provide $1.43 million for UNT"s North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts to demonstrate how education in the arts can improve students.
Date: June 1996
Creator: LeMay, Nancy Cochran
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[The Annenberg Foundation grants to arts education]

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an snippet in the left side on the Annenberg Foundation, a foundation based in St. Davis, Pennsylvania, has announced their latest series of grants towards arts education. A $4.3 million challenge grant to six regional institutes to show how the arts can boost student academic achievements.
Date: May 22, 1996
Creator: Across The Nation
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Art is an essential element of education

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on how art is an essential element of education. Jay Gates, the director of the Dallas Museum of Art is contributing in a collaborative project to build art education computer software for schoolchildren. The collaborative effort is a funded project by the Edward and Betty Marcus foundation where the Dallas Museum of Art will be working with the University of North Texas to develop this program.
Date: November 4, 1996
Creator: Cullum, Lee
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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EH Elementary Teachers Receive Awards & Training

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Janice Hobbs, a principal at Eastern Hills Elementary School, receiving an award this summer at the Sixth Annual Getty Art Institute for Disciplined Based Art Education. Mrs. Hobbs is credited for encouraging teachers and students to focus on integrating art into the curriculum. Eastern Hills Elementary students have attended workshops at the Amon Carter Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Ar… more
Date: August 29, 1996
Creator: Greater Meadowbrook Shopping News
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Changing views on teaching

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on art and art education in the school system. Representatives of the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts presented a full-day seminar at Baylor University on "Bridging the Curriculum through Art," to teach the correlation between the visual arts and the state-mandated Texas Assessment of Academic Skills, TAAS examinations.
Date: August 24, 1996
Creator: Sansbury, Jen
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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North Texas institute for visual arts garners a grant

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Dr. William McCarter and Dr. Jack Davis, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts who will recieve a total of $3.43 million to promote the reform of art education in public schools. McCarter said a grant from the Annenberg Foundation will provide $1.43 million and the Getty Center for Education in the Arts will provide $ 2 million in matching funds.
Date: April 24, 1996
Creator: Webb, Jay
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Visual arts institute receives grant

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Dr. William McCarter and Dr. Jack Davis, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts who will recieve a total of $3.43 million to promote the reform of art education in public schools. McCarter said a grant from the Annenberg Foundation will provide $1.43 million and the Getty Center for Education in the Arts will provide $ 2 million in matching funds.
Date: April 20, 1996
Creator: Elliott, Julie
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Summer arts camp offers kids creative diversions

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Denton youths travelling downtown to see "the world." The students will be visiting an exhibition, "Walk Like an Egyptian," at the Greater Denton Arts Council's summer arts camp, where they will visit ancient civilizations of the Mayans, Egyptians and Greeks. The students will learn the secrets of an Egyptian tomb, write their names in hieroglyphics and create a Greek amphora bottle.
Date: June 9, 1996
Creator: Lissberger, Lenni
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[In House, Janurary 1996]

Description: A newsletter published by the University of North Texas, titled "In House." The first page features information on upcoming lectures by professors and educators. Dr. William McCarter, regents professor of visual arts and co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts along with Nancy Walkup will be giving their lecture "Utilizing Journalistic Art Criticism in the Secondary Art Classroom" and "Visualizing Art History Through Time Lines and Conceptual Diagrams," November 9t… more
Date: January 1996
Creator: In House
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Her art comes from the heart

Description: A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Beverly Fletcher, a women who claims partial responsibility for the artistic achievement in the Fort Worth school district and the national recognition such achievement as received. Fletcher believes that intensive exposure to the art has helped many school children excel in their education, citing that test scores at Greenbriar Elementary School after three years of disciplined-based art education, has moved up from 47th place in the district to the… more
Date: [1996..]
Creator: Tyson, Janet
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Art Student Melinda Mayer Awarded Doctoral Fellowship

Description: A newsletter clipping featuring an article on Melinda Mayer, a Ph.D. candidate in the art education program being awarded a fellowship in the field of visual arts education by the Getty Center for Education in the Arts. The fellowships provide support to emerging scholars who will shape the future of art education.
Date: [1996..]
Creator: Penn State's College of Arts architecture
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Clipping: Homosexuality still questioned by the military]

Description: Photocopy of a New York Times clipping about the United States military continuing to ask service members about their sexual orientations in spite of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy enacted two years prior.
Date: February 27, 1996
Creator: Shenon, Philip
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Clipping: AIDS center chief steps down; Thomas called 'activist-hero']

Description: Newspaper clipping from The Dallas Morning News, with an article "AIDS center chief steps down; Thomas called 'activist-hero'," by Laura Beil about John Thomas resigning from his position at the AIDS Resource Center.
Date: February 1, 1996
Creator: Beil, Laura
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Newspaper Clipping: Dallas Morning News]

Description: A scan of a newspaper article about Van Cliburn being sued for half of his assets after allegedly, knowingly exposing Thomas E. Zaremba HIV.
Date: April 30, 1996
Creator: Crawford, Selwyn
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Clipping: Dyamic duo]

Description: A clipping from The Advocate about the working relationship between William Waybourn and David Mixner to reach out to LGBTQIA+ consumers.
Date: [1996..1997]
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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