Community Engagement

We encourage our UNT student-athletes to engage with the community to create a positive impact within their lives, our city, and the surrounding neighborhoods. Through service, we believe they will increase in self-efficacy and gain a sense of responsibility and pride within their community. We aim to align student-athletes' passions with their service to enhance their experience at North Texas and beyond.

The following must be provided in order to determine permissibility of a UNT student-athletes’ volunteer service for the activity per NCAA and institutional regulations. All requests must be received a minimum of three-weeks prior to requested event. Please be aware that even if an activity is deemed permissible by compliance and NCAA regulations, the availability of student-athletes must still be determined by the sports program, coaches, and student-athletes themselves.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Brandon Fisher, Assistant Director for Student-Athlete Development (Brandon.Fisher@unt.edu or 940-369-8894).

Interested in having Mean Green student-athletes volunteer with your charitable, educational, or non-profit agency? Please review the guidelines below, then click here to make a request!

Community Service Guidelines
NCAA rules permit an institution entity, a conference or a non-institutional charitable, educational or nonprofit agency to use a student athlete’s name, image, or likeness to support its charitable or educational activities, provided the following conditions are met:

The specific activity or project in which the student-athlete participates does not involve co-sponsorship, advertisement or promotion by a commercial agency other than through the reproduction of the sponsoring company's officially registered regular trademark or logo on printed materials such as pictures, posters or calendars. The company's emblem, name, address, telephone number and website address may be included with the trademark or logo. Personal names, messages and slogans (other than an officially registered trademark) are prohibited;
The name or picture of a student-athlete with remaining eligibility may not appear on an institution's printed promotional item (e.g., poster, calendar) that includes a reproduction of a product with which a commercial entity is associated if the commercial entity's officially registered regular trademark or logo also appears on the item;
The student-athlete does not miss class;
All moneys derived from the activity or project go directly to the institution, conference or the charitable, educational or nonprofit agency;
The student-athlete may accept actual and necessary expenses from the institution, conference or the charitable, educational or nonprofit agency related to participation in such activity;
The student-athlete's name, picture or appearance is not used to promote the commercial ventures of any nonprofit agency;
Any commercial items with names, likenesses or pictures of multiple student-athletes (other than highlight films or media guides per Bylaw 12.5.1.7) may be sold only at the institution in which student-athletes are enrolled, the institution's conference, institutionally controlled (owned and operated) outlets or outlets controlled by the charitable, educational or nonprofit organization (e.g., location of the charitable or educational organization, site of charitable event during the event). Items that include an individual student-athlete's name, picture or likeness (e.g., name on jersey, name or likeness on a bobble-head doll), other than informational items (e.g., media guide, schedule cards, institutional publications), may not be sold; and
The student-athlete and an authorized representative of the charitable, educational or nonprofit agency affirm that the student-athlete's name, image or appearance is used in a manner consistent with the requirements of this section.

Additionally,

UNT Athletics reserves the right to deny any and all requests that:
1. Are outside of a 30-mile radius from campus.
2. Occur within the first or last two weeks of any semester; and/or
3. Occur during a vacation period.
The specific activity or project typically must be targeted toward groups eighth grade and/or below.
Specific student-athletes or teams requested cannot be guaranteed. The office of Student-Athlete Development reserves the right to consider alternate teams or student-athletes to fill a request. This will be communicated with the requestor prior to approving the event.
Requests for specific student-athletes that involves marketing, transfer of goods or funds is considered use of the individuals’ name, image and likeness per NCAA legislation. Such requests must be handled directly with the student-athlete – UNT Athletics staff members and coaches cannot be involved. For more information: ParamoUNT.

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