. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "In April 1965, the Texas Legislature transferred Arlington State College (ASC) from the Texas A&M University System to the University of Texas System (UT System). The following year, Maxwell Scarlett was the first African-American graduate in ASC history. In March 1967, ASC was renamed the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). Jack Woolf, president of ASC and UTA since 1959, resigned in 1968 and was succeeded by Frank Harrison; Harrison was president until 1972. UTA awarded its first master's degrees in 1968, all in engineering. Reby Cary, the university's first African-American administrator, was hired the following year."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "170730"^^ . . . . . . "63623793"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "In April 1965, the Texas Legislature transferred Arlington State College (ASC) from the Texas A&M University System to the University of Texas System (UT System). The following year, Maxwell Scarlett was the first African-American graduate in ASC history. In March 1967, ASC was renamed the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). Jack Woolf, president of ASC and UTA since 1959, resigned in 1968 and was succeeded by Frank Harrison; Harrison was president until 1972. UTA awarded its first master's degrees in 1968, all in engineering. Reby Cary, the university's first African-American administrator, was hired the following year. Wendell Nedderman succeeded Harrison as UTA president in 1972, serving for 20 years. During his tenure the university constructed 24 buildings, created 64 new degree programs, and grew from 14,028 students to 25,135. UTA's student demographics changed substantially under Nedderman. The ratio of male to female students shifted from about 2:1 to nearly 1:1; African Americans increased from 2.6 to 7.2 percent of the student body, Hispanic students increased from 1.9 to 6.3 percent, and Asian and Pacific Islander students increased from less than one to 8.5 percent. By the mid-1970s, UTA was one of Texas' most accessible universities for disabled students. In April 1992, Nedderman was succeeded as university president by Ryan C. Amacher. Focused on recruiting minority students and employees and aggressively marketing the university, Amacher and his administration polarized the campus before his sudden resignation in March 1995 amid charges that he showed budgetary favoritism to athletics and spent too much on non-essentials at the expense of academic programs. He was replaced by University of Texas at Austin dean Robert Witt, as UTA's enrollment declined for seven consecutive years during the 1990s. Enrollment increased again by 1999, reaching an all-time high of 25,297 students in fall 2004. In November 2003, Michigan State University dean James D. Spaniolo succeeded Witt as president. Spaniolo was succeeded a decade later by Vistasp Karbhari, who resigned in 2020 in the face of a lawsuit by a former vice president and the release of an audit. The UTA campus has grown since 1965; new buildings include College Park Center, the Engineering Research Building, and the Science and Engineering Innovation and Research (SEIR) Building. Student traditions have developed, which include bed racing, oozeball, and International Week. Notable athletics events during the UTA era include the termination of the university's football program in 1985, the women's volleyball team advancing to the Final Four in the 1989 NCAA Division I women's volleyball tournament, and national championships for the Movin' Mavs (nine) and Lady Movin' Mavs (two) wheelchair basketball teams."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "History of the University of Texas at Arlington (1965\u2013present)"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1112997635"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .