A Flight for Success

College of Visual Arts and Design students during First Flight Week.At UNT, students get the resources they need to succeed. UNT's First Flight program is all about helping new students make a smooth transition to college even before classes start. This fall, UNT formally welcomed one of its largest freshman classes at New Student Convocation, making for a busy First Flight Week that included faculty meet-and-greets, mock lectures and other sessions, such as a critique of College of Visual Arts and Design students' self-portraits, right.

"All we do to teach, support and guide our students really matters to them," President Neal Smatresk says. "The first days on campus for students are the perfect opportunities for all of us to show them the strength of our caring community."

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