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Historian of the American West, formerly at Texas Tech, later with the University of Montana: Sankar Chatterjee: Paleontologist: F. Alton Wade: Scientist, leader of the Texas Tech Shackleton Glacier Expedition and namesake of Mount Wade in Antarctica [3] Stephen Graham Jones: Blackfeet author, former associate professor at Texas Tech Burwell B ...
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Texas Tech (then known as Texas Technological College) was known as the "Matadors" from 1925 to 1936, a name suggested by the wife of Ewing Y. Freeland, the first football coach, to reflect the influence of the Spanish Renaissance architecture on campus. [1] In 1932, Texas Tech joined the Border Intercollegiate Athletic Association.
Texas Tech's athletic teams are known as the Red Raiders with the exception of the women's basketball team, which is known as the Lady Raiders. Texas Tech competes in NCAA Division I FBS (formerly Division I-A) and is a member of the Big 12 Conference. From 1932 until 1956, the university belonged to the Border Intercollegiate Athletic Association.
"At Texas Tech, our faculty, staff and administrators have a personal understanding of the challenges and opportunities confronting first-generation students," said Texas Tech Provost Ron Hendrick
The Texas Technological College, present day Texas Tech University, School of Engineering was created in the fall of 1925. At that time the school consisted of 313 students and two faculty members, and was housed in the textile engineering building, now the mechanical engineering building. [ 5 ]
Texas Tech launched a $1.2 billion fundraising campaign to fund all aspects of its future. Here is what you need to know and its potential impact.
In 1989, a group of Vietnam veterans from West Texas gathered at Texas Tech University to discuss what they might do, in a positive way, about their experiences in Vietnam. [13] Their meeting was spearheaded by James Reckner, a Texas Tech military history professor and Navy veteran of the Vietnam War, [ 14 ] who had become concerned with his ...