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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

[Clipping: commUNITY Vote '96]

Description: Clipping from the Dallas Voice newspaper of an article stating candidates' opinions on different community issues.
Date: November 1, 1996
Creator: Dallas Voice

[Clipping: District 3]

Description: Newspaper clipping of article about the campaign for the District 3 council seat in Dallas and anti-discrimination policies put in place.
Date: 1996
Creator: Nash, Tammy

[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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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

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
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