A newspaper clipping on the newly constructed Getty Center museum and during the opening in December, Dr. William McCarter and Dr. Jack Davis were there. McCarter and Davis, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, visited the Getty Center because of the institutions's ties to UNT, NTIEVA is funded in part by the Getty Education.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on the summer institute hosted by the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. The institute is a two-week program designed to provide training for the use of art education for school districts educators. The primary goal of the summer institute is to implement discipline-based art education into the participating districts, DBAE, is an approach to learning in the art that combines art production, criticism, aesthetics and art history.

A newsletter, published by the Texas Commission On The Arts, featuring an article on discipline-based art education. The North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts is one of six regional consortia established by the Getty Center for Education in the Arts to research and develop ways to implement art education into the public school systems. The purpose of DBAE is to train teachers and educators to incorporate art and art education into the regular core curriculum. The institute's major goal is to develop children's desire to be life-long audience participants and supporters of the visual arts.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Barry Munitz, California State University Chanceller, who has accepted his new position as president and chief executive of the J. Paul Getty Trust, a private foundation devoted to the visual arts, the humanities and the organizations that run the J. Paul Getty Trust Museum. Munitz is set to take over for Harold M. Williams.

A newspaper clipping featuring a photograph of elementary students from Tomas Rivera Elementary School. In the photograph is student, Amber Jackson who is standing on chairs to work on a mural on the school wall.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Sharon Warwick, art teacher at Borman Elementary School, being a feature speaker at the Dallas Museum of Art to discuss how growing up near the El Paso border and experiences influence her work.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on California State University chancellor Barry Munitz will leave the university and accept his new position as president and chief executive of the $4.2 billion J. Paul Getty Trust. Munitz will take the position over from Harold M. Williams who is said to retire on his 70th birthday just three-weeks after the opening of the Getty Center in Brentwood.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Plano ISD naming James E. Surratt the districts new superintendent. Dr. Surratt will replace Dr. H. Wayne Hendrick who became Plano's superintendent in 1961.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on administrators in San Francisco who took inventory on the school system's professional-development offerings and how they're spending close to $18 million a year on programs and projects. However, without high-quality professional development the push to replicate effective reform strategies can be doomed. The rest of the article details about changes in the public system to conserve money but maintain their professional development programs.

A clipping from the newsletter In House, University of North Texas, written by Kelley Reese, titled "Graduate art education program cited as "tops" in North America. The article relays that a study conducted by Stanford University and Florida State University recently examined and critiqued the graduate level programs in art education in the United States and Canada and the University of North Texas was cited among the best.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article about William McCarter, regents professor at the University of North Texas, and co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, being named by the Texas Art Education Association as the Higher Education Art Educator of the Year for 1994.

A photocopy of a newspaper clipping, that reads "Steve Allen to open arts center." The clipping shows illustrations of the building and floor plan of the Walton Arts Center, a performing arts center located in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The Walton Arts Center is named after the Walton family, because of funds donated to complete construction, and its grand opening concert was performed by composer and musician, Steven Allen. These pages belonged to the desk of Jack Davis, William McCarter, as they researched foundations to support their education reform program.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Dr. Jack Davis, who is the dean of the School of Visual arts. Davis hopes that a $4.3 million dollar grant will show public schools that an education based on the arts increases student achievements in all fields. Davis is also co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, an art education consortium, whose belief is that visual image is a powerful learning tool.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Dr. William McCarter, Art Professor at the University of North Texas. McCarter received his doctor of education in 1968 - the same year he came to teach at UNT, in 1989 he and his colleague Dr. Jack Davis, co-directed North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts funded by the Getty Center. McCarter states he acts like a broker for the museums, schools and universities, bringing them together to teach them how to educate young children.

Photocopy of a clipping from Parade Magazine, featuring an article titled, "10 Things You Can Do To Make Our Schools Better," by Vartan Gregorian. Gregorian will become the President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York in June, 1997. Gregorian is one of the leading authorities on education in America and has written a list about some things concerned individuals can do right now to better the schools and education in the area. The 10th thing on Gregorian's list is to restore the arts as a major element in education. "We've made a tremendous mistake in diminishing or eliminating art, music and dance as fluff or frills."

A newsletter clipping featuring collaborations that the University of North Texas has been participating in. One such example is UNT"s collaboration with educational institutions, including the highly regarded initiative with public schools and art museums, the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on a collaborative educational project that will provide school children with a new view to the world of art and computers, thanks to grants from the Edward and Betty Marcus foundation. The grant support a join art education project by the UNT School of Visual arts, UNT's North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts and the Dallas Museum of Art.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article on Dr. William McCarter, a University of North Texas Regents Professor giving a talk on the Albert C. Barnes art collection. The lecture on Dr. Barnes is a conjunction with an exhibition at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, as Dr. Barnes was considered one of the greatest art collectors in American history.

A scanned newspaper clipping, featuring an article written about the Getty Center for Education in the Arts granting North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts with a five-year grant of $625,000. Collaborating with UNT on the project are the Amon Carter Museum, Dallas Museum of Arts, Kimbell Art Museum, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Greater Denton Arts Council, the Texas Education Agency, the Texas Commission on the Arts and independent school districts of Fort Worth, Hurst-Euless-Bedford, Plano, Denton and Pilot Point. The consortia's goal is to give higher arts education to elementary and secondary school children, so that they will be life-long admirers and contributors to the arts.

Newspaper clippings featuring articles about Plano Independent School District supporting art programs, in the first article "School board OKs art plan," many parents called the school board in support of the school art program and following such PISD will hire five art specialist at $33,000 a year to augment art education. In the continuing article "PISD to hire art specialists," the school will be participating in two summer programs by the Getty Foundation to teach the faculty how to fully use the new concepts to tackle art education.

A newspaper clipping, published by the Denton Record-Chronicle, features an article written by Lucinda Breeding, staff writer, titled "UNT program gets $600,000." The University of North Texas received a grant from the Edward and Betty Marcus Foundation, who have promised to fund the UNT Marcus Fellows Program. The new grant will fund five graduate students each year, fifteen total for three years, and each will receive a stipend of $15,000. In return the graduate students much work with the university faculty, museum staff and school teachers to create and test innovative ways to teach art.

A newspaper clipping featuring an article about the Edward and Betty Marcus Foundation granting North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts at the University of North Texas $225,000 for the discipline-based art education program.

A newspaper clipping, featuring a snippet on Birdville elementary school teachers attending the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts 1995 summer institute. In other news, Central Junior High teacher, Tom Wine received a master's degree in education in may from the University of North Texas.

A newsletter clipping with bulletin information about the art happenings at the University of North Texas, information about the progress with the program North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts and with the art faculty involved at the school, the program and the Denton community. This newsletter informs about the five-year grant received by North Texas from the Getty Center for Education in the Arts for the education reform program. The art education reform will promote changes in teaching of the visual arts to thousands of children in the North Texas.