The UNT Alumni Association contributes to student success each year by gifting a portion of its graduation tassel sales from the GRADitude program to support the Student Alumni Association scholarship program. This spring, the alumni association awarded junior Kathleen Spriggs and senior Chris Weatherspoon, Student Alumni Association members, $500 scholarships. They are awarded based on association membership, need, community involvement and Mean Green pride.

Weatherspoon, who is majoring in engineering, has participated in campus activities to promote class identity and student giving for UNT-related causes.

"Receiving this scholarship means a lot to me and encourages me to donate as a student as well as continuing to give back once I graduate," he says.

Spriggs, president of the Student Alumni Association and a family studies major, says the scholarship will help her with out-of-pocket costs to attend UNT as an out-of-state student.

"I'm excited about the opportunities this scholarship brings me," says Spriggs, who hopes to become a child life specialist.

The UNT Alumni Association named Rob McInturf as its new executive director in May. McInturf previously has served as director and executive director of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington's Alumni Association.

"I'm proud to have been chosen to lead the UNT Alumni Association at a time when UNT is rededicating university resources to reach more of our alumni and creating stronger ties between alumni and UNT," McInturf says.