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UT Arlington is the third-largest producer of college graduates in Texas and offers over 180 baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral degree programs. [11] [12] UT Arlington participates in 15 intercollegiate sports as a Division I member of the NCAA and Western Athletic Conference. UTA sports teams have been known as the Mavericks since 1971.
In the mid-1980s, the College of Engineering added three new buildings: Nedderman Hall, the Aerodynamics Research Center, and the Automation & Robotics Research Institute (now known as the UT Arlington Research Institute, or UTARI). The original engineering building, Woolf Hall, was also remodeled.
UTA political-science professor Allan Saxe summarized his perceptions of student attitudes toward eliminating the football team: "70 percent [of UTA students] would say they are not heartbroken over dropping football. 10 percent are heartbroken, and the remaining 20 percent did not know UTA even had a team."
The UT Arlington campus is ideally situated in the center of one of the region’s largest and most diverse urban areas known as the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, creating an ideal laboratory environment where the concepts being discussed in the classroom take shape all around.
UT Arlington volleyball match v Louisiana–Monroe, 2019. The first season for volleyball at UT Arlington was in 1973. The volleyball team appeared in the national rankings in the 1970s during their time in the AIAW and towards the end of the 1980s in the NCAA. They advanced to the NCAA Division I Volleyball Final Four in 1989. [15]
Student government became more prominent and effective during the ASC era. In the 1950s, ASC had a 20-member Student Council whose members were all appointed by the college president. In 1962, the Student Council was enlarged to 30 members, 16 of whom were elected by ASC students and the remaining 14 of whom were appointed by the president. [131]
Scott Cross - basketball coach, former head and assistant men's basketball coach at UTA; also a former player at UTA; Roy Dewalt - former Canadian Football League quarterback of the 1980s, mostly with the British Columbia Lions; Steve Foster - baseball coach and former MLB player for the Cincinnati Reds [32]
[3] [66] [68] From the start of the Nedderman administration to the end, UTA's student demographics changed substantially: the ratio of male-to-female students shifted from approximately 2:1 to nearly 1:1 while African Americans went from 2.6% to 7.2% of the student body, Hispanic students went from 1.9% to 6.3%, and Asian and Pacific Islander ...