Honors and Awards 





Distinguished Alumnus 2009

Greg McQueen

Ph.D. (1995) in Higher Education

Senior Vice President for Advancement

University of North Texas

Dr. McQueen has spent 42 years promoting and contributing to higher education. He will retire in January 2010. He assumed his current position in January 2005, and UNT President Gretchen Bataille attributes the advances in fundraising to the benefit of the UNT Foundation and UNT Alumni Association to the leadership of Dr. McQueen since his appointment. In academic year 2006-2007, the Chronicle of Higher Education gave recognition to UNT for the higher percentage growth of its endowment among 785 colleges and universities. Prior to his current position, McQueen worked at the UNT Health Science Center for 16 years in a variety of positions including health affairs, advancement, institutional planning, and academic administration. After his retirement from the UNT Advancement Office, McQueen intends to continue to serve higher education as a consultant for strategic planning and governance.   

Program as a whole:

• External Funding
  • 2008: $1,819,000
  • Addressing such areas as early college high school and community-to-four-year-college transfer student issues.

Individual faculty members:

• Dr. Bonita Jacobs
  • 2007 National Association of Student Personnel Administrators “Gold Excellence Award” (for development of the UNT Student Money Management Center)
  • 2005 National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Region III “John Jones Award for Outstanding Performance as a Senior Student Affairs Officer”
  • 2005 Council for the Advancement of Standards “Ted. K. Miller Achievement of Excellence Award”
  • 2005 University of North Texas “Greek Supporter of the Year”

Students:

• Ms. Baaska Anderson
  2008 nominee to the 29th Annual Policy Seminar for Advanced Graduate Students
• Ms. Sarah Collins
  2009 delegate to the ASHE Graduate Policy Seminar
• Ms. Annie Downey
  2009 delegate to the ASHE Graduate Policy Seminar

• Ms. Lillian Niwagaba
  2008 nominee to the 29th Annual Policy Seminar for Advanced Graduate Students