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The College Park Center, home to events and UTA's men's basketball, women's basketball and women's volleyball teams, opened in February 2012. [82] [247] In April of that year, the university purchased the Johnson Creek Crossing Apartments on South Pecan Street and renamed it The Heights on Pecan. The building provided about 300 additional rooms ...
Kent Grusendorf - Republican former member of the Texas House of Representatives from Arlington; Sally Kern - former member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives; Bob McFarland - Republican former member of both houses of the Texas State Legislature from Arlington, 1977–1991; Hugh Parmer - former Texas politician and 36th mayor of Fort Worth
In April 1965, the Texas Legislature transferred Arlington State College (ASC) from the Texas A&M University System to the University of Texas System (UT System). [3] [56] In 1966, Maxwell Scarlett became the first African American graduate in ASC's history. [57] [58] [59] In March 1967, ASC was renamed the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA).
Oct. 13, 1975: Howard Joyner, left, chairman of the UTA art department from 1937 to 1969, stands with artist Jim Woodson beside the painting which friends of Joyner and the Arlington Art ...
In 2012, athletic operations moved to the new $78 million College Park Center on the east side of campus, leaving Texas Hall to function exclusively as a campus performing arts and lecture venue. The final men's basketball game in Texas Hall was a 63–54 UT Arlington victory against Stephen F. Austin on January 21, 2012.
College Park Center (CPC) is an indoor, multi-purpose arena on the University of Texas at Arlington campus in Arlington, Texas, United States. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It seats up to 7,000 spectators. Its primary tenant is the Mavericks athletic department including the university's basketball and volleyball teams.
After the 1969 season, UTA left Memorial Stadium, though local high school teams would still play there for several more years. The venue was demolished in winter 1973 to make way for the current Maverick Activities Center. UTA averaged around 9,000 in attendance from 1966 to 1969. However, the university viewed Memorial Stadium as small and ...
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.