The Colony Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 24, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 3, 1989 Page: 20 of 48
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4B The Colony Leader, Wednesday, May 3, 1989
Academy receives applications
1
CAS the 1 exas Academy of vate sources to help fund the
Mathematics and Science at the Uni- program.
Cersity of North Texas nears the end In addition to cont ributions and
ol its first year, academy officials funds provided by NT, the academy
already have begun processing ap- receives the regular high school per-
plications for the academy’s second student allotment from the Texas
class of 100 of the state’s brightest Education Agency. Still, the stu-
science-minded students, dents are required to pay about
In response to a nationwide shor- $3,000 each for room, board and
tage of science professionals, the books.
academy was created by the 'Texas The minimum scores on the Scho-
Legislature in 1987 to give an educa- lastic Aptitude Test for admission to
tional boost to gifted teenagers in- the academy are 550 on the math
terested in the sciences. section and a 1,000 on the combined
math and verbal sections out of a
Students at the academy live in a possible 1,600.
N'T residence hall and study under
N'T faculty, often attending classes More than half of the 204 appli-
with “regular” college students, cants for the second class exceed
'They simultaneously are completing the requirements, with 27 students
their last two years of high school scoring more than 700 on the math
and their first two years of college, portion and two students scoring
Upon graduation from the academy, perfect 800s.
the students will be able to transfer Students in the current academy
ter of college classes, more than half
had 3.0 GPA’s or better, with four
carrying perfect 4.0 GPAs.
A special effort has been made to
recruit minority students since they
are under represented in the scien-
ces and related professions, said Dr.
Rogers Redding, academy director.
“The longer I study the (Texas
academy), the more 1 am amazed
and intrigued by its promise,” wrote
Dr. Julian Stanley, a member of the
academy’s advisory board and the
founder of the Study of Mathemati-
cally Precocious Youth atJohns Hop-
kins University, in a letter to Red-
ding. “You and your associated have
come up with a brilliantly unique plan
that seems to me vastly superior in
principle to the schools already
underway in North Carolina, Illinois
and Louisiana and being planned or
considered in several states (Indi-
ana, Maryland, Mississippi and New
York).”
to almost any university in the state class averaged 1,178 on the SAT
or nation as a college junior — two when they took the test as high
years ahead of schedule, school sophomores. Their score
was more than 300 points above the
And, while accelerated learning Texas average (877) for seniors and
programs exist in other states, the more than 200 points above e
Texas academy is the only one in the national average (906) or seniors,
nation offering college credit to its
students. Although some of the current
Stanley testified before the Mary-
land House Appropriations Commit-
tee in 1988, recommending that the
Texas academy be used as a model
for that state’s propoed program.
To help keep the students in
Seniors ready sale
Trailblazer Senior Citizens of The Colony pre- to 5 p.m.. May 6 and 1 to 5 p.m., May 7. For
pare for their Rummage and Bake Sale at The donations or additional information call 370-
Colony Civic Center, 5576 North Colony, 9 a.m. 4100 or 370-7072.
Although the legislature approved academy students struggled through Texas, North Texas officials are
the academy, it provided no funding their first semester of College-level establishing an admissions network
for the program. NT officials have work, most thrived in their new en- to ease academy graduates' admis-
raised more than $500,000 from pri- vironment. After their first semes- sion to other Texas universities.
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Ball, Jeffrey. The Colony Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 24, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 3, 1989, newspaper, May 3, 1989; The Colony, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1666593/m1/20/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Colony Public Library.