{"id":422209,"date":"2026-08-31T22:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T22:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/422209\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T22:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T22:02:09","slug":"university-of-texas-at-arlington-president-to-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/422209\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Texas at Arlington president to step down"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"UTA<\/p>\n

UTA President Jennifer Cowley speaks during the ground-breaking for the new UTA West campus on Thursday, April 3, 2025. She announced she would step down from her role as president on Aug. 31.<\/p>\n

Amanda McCoy<\/p>\n

amccoy@star-telegram.com<\/p>\n

University of Texas at Arlington President Jennifer Cowley announced Monday, Aug. 31, that she would step down from her role to teaching at the university.<\/p>\n

Cowley was the first woman to serve as president of the university, a role she has held since 2022. The change is effective immediately.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I conclude my service as president, I do so with tremendous gratitude for what we have accomplished together, deep affection for this community, and great optimism for UTA\u2019s future. I will never lose sight of what a privilege it is to help shape the lives of our students,\u201d Cowley said in a statement.<\/p>\n

UTA Chancellor John Zerwas said that when he learned of Cowley\u2019s decision, he felt gratitude for her commitment to stay at the university.<\/p>\n

Under Cowley\u2019s leadership, UTA has seen record enrollment<\/a>, with over 42,000 students enrolled during the fall 2025 semester. She also helped in the planning of the UTA West campus,<\/a> scheduled to open in Fort Worth in 2028.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Board of Regents and I have never been more optimistic about the university\u2019s future, thanks in great part to Dr. Cowley\u2019s leadership,\u201d Zerwas said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Cowley has previously served as the provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of North Texas. Before her time at UNT, she served in many roles at Ohio State University for over 16 years. Cowley also worked in city planning in Amarillo.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am grateful to remain part of the Maverick community. And you\u2019ll still see me walking around campus in our school colors, carrying that Maverick spirit forward,\u201d Cowley said in a statement.<\/p>\n


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Maven Navarro<\/a><\/p>\n

Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n

Maven Navarro is a local news reporter at the Star-Telegram. She covers Fort Worth and Tarrant County.\u00a0\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UTA President Jennifer Cowley speaks during the ground-breaking for the new UTA West campus on Thursday, April 3,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-422209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}