Contact:
Email: provost@uta.edu
Phone: 817-272-2103
Mailing Address:
Office of the Provost
The University of Texas At Arlington
701 S. Nedderman Drive
Arlington, TX 76019
Public Service Academy
This initiative serves as a catalyst for transformative learning, civic engagement, and ethical leadership at UTA. We build a more just and equitable world by empowering students to translate knowledge into action and cultivate leadership for the public good.
Initiatives
Archer Fellowship Program
The Archer Fellowship Program provides graduate and undergraduate students from across The University of Texas System with a unique opportunity to live, learn, and intern in our nation’s capital during the summer. Home to many government, media, research, and cultural institutions, Washington, D.C., offers unparalleled opportunities for career development and cultural enrichment. While in D.C., students earn in-residence UT Arlington credit for their coursework and gain hands-on work experience in an internship. Through a shared cohort experience and living together in luxury condominiums near Capitol Hill, Archer Fellows build lasting friendships and professional connections with each other. The Archer Fellowship Program is tailored to students’ own personal and intellectual interests, which allows them to connect their developing expertise to policy and public service.
Public Service Internships
UTA’s College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs (CAPPA) offers students the opportunity to gain with real-world experience in local public and non-profit agencies through the Geisel Distinguished Summer Internship program. Past participants have completed internships with the City of Grand Prairie, the City of Mansfield, and City of Farmers Branch, and the Dallas County Habitat for Humanity.
Quest for Community
Under a three-year grant from the Teagle Foundation, Quest for Community invites rising high-school seniors from Tarrant County to participate in a summer residential seminar exploring liberal-arts themes of democracy, belonging, and civic leadership. Following the seminar, participants engage in a yearlong sequence of mentorship, service-learning partnerships, and college-readiness support, connecting campus and community through sustained collaboration. The initiative is led by a cross-disciplinary UTA faculty-community team and aims to expand access to higher-education pathways for under-served students while strengthening ties between university and region. Learn more about the Teagle Foundation's Knowledge for Freedom program: https://knowledgeforfreedom.org.
Taste Project
As part of UTA’s expansion into hospitality education, the university is partnering with Taste Project, a 501(c)3 non-profit established “to feed people one community at a time.” The partnership has been designed to provide a space for UTA hospitality program students to intern and/or work under Taste Project’s supervision.
Top O'Hill Terrace
In partnership with Arlington Baptist University, the UTA History Department and UTA Libraries are undertaking a public history project to collect, preserve and broaden community knowledge about the history of Top O’Hill Terrace Museum.
Rise 100
As part of the RISE 100 initiative, UTA has hired four faculty members to support community engaged research. Their work will focus on understanding and supporting the well-being of children and their families in Eastern Tarrant County, a diverse set of neighborhoods and communities. Arlington is consistently ranked as one of the country’s most culturally and religiously diverse communities.
Representing various disciplines, these new faculty members will work with people who live and work in Eastern Tarrant County to understand and support families facing various challenges, such as access to housing, education, and substance abuse treatment. UTA’s location in Arlington is ideal for studying and contributing to solutions that support children and families living near our main campus.