The 2023-24 academic calendar will include a week-long fall break from Nov. 20-24 during the Thanksgiving holiday. Typically, the university is only closed for Thanksgiving Day and the following Friday. This change will give students “time to rest, recharge, and prepare for the end of the semester so that they

The Denton Independent School District will offer free Wi-Fi to students on all 206 district school buses, according to a press release. The driving reason for this change is to improve students’ ability to complete assignments while traveling. The buses cover a 180 square mile area, meaning some students face

The Student Government Association was busy over the summer and into the fall semester as Jermaine “JT” Turner and Aalyhia Shillow stepped into their new roles as president and vice president. The Turner and Shillow administration started at the beginning of the summer semester, and Turner said one of their

In the 2022 Texas gubernatorial election, Generation Z voters are expected to lean toward Democratic candidate Robert “Beto” O’Rourke with around 54 percent siding with the El Paso native, according to a study by the University of Houston and Texas Southern University. The study also shows that Gen Zers, especially

The Denton Record-Chronicle and KERA executives answered questions concerning KERA’s acquisition of the Record-Chronicle at a town hall event last night in Hubbard Hall at Texas Woman’s University. The move was announced on Sept. 27, with the plan of completing the acquisition by 2023, and was aided by National Trust

A research team led by university professor Alexandra Ponette-González will use a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct a five-year study on urban forest technology, according to a press release. The researchers will start the project in January and will study i-Tree, a digital tool that

The university recently partnered with Duo to implement multifactor authentification software on student email accounts. It began requesting students enroll their student emails in Duo on Sept. 12, running the enrollment process through Oct. 12, according to a university newsletter. “I think that it’s a good thing,” said Danny Diaz,

Chancellor Michael R. Williams made appearances at the university, UNT Dallas, UNT Health Science Center and more for his “listening tour” town halls. At the HSC town hall on Sept. 12, Williams presented his final address as the HSC president, and his successor Sylvia Trent-Adams spoke about Williams’ accomplishments. Williams

The Union welcomed Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado on Wednesday for this year’s installment of the Latino/a Mexican-American Studies Distinguished Lecture Series. The former president of the Latino Caucus in Political Science of the American Political Science Association presented a lecture titled “Which Way to Your America? The Challenge and Opportunity of Growing the Latino