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The School of Social Work offers three main academic programs: the Bachelor of Social Work (BSW), the Master of Science in Social Work (MSSW), and the Ph.D. in social work. The BSW and MSSW programs are accredited by the Council on Social Work Education. [69] The College of Business is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the nation.
This is a list of notable people affiliated with the University of Texas at Arlington. Since its inception, the university has produced over 200,000 alumni, with approximately 130,000 living in the North Texas region.
In 1997, the university named Consulting Director Dr. Neil Foley of the University of Texas, Austin to reconstitute and reactivate the center, and to search for a new director. Those efforts led to the appointment of Dr. L. Manuel García y Griego as CMAS director in Fall 1999. Dr. García y Griego relinquished leadership of the center in 2003.
The UT System Board of Regents allocated $60 million for a new building for the UTA School of Social Work in November 2019; [261] President Karbhari had addressed the 86th Texas Legislature in February about the state of the existing Social Work facility, which was built in 1922. [262]
The university's first doctoral program, a Ph.D. in engineering, was started in 1969. [4] 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).
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In 2017, the School of Social Work received a large donation from telecommunications pioneer and vice chairman of the Board of Regents at the University of Texas System, R. Steven "Steve" Hicks. The announcement of this donation was made September 6, 2017, and in commemoration of the event, the university tower was lit burnt orange.
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).