Tag: Texas Tech University

A Q&A with Jessica Gray, Assistant Athletics Director at Texas Tech University

Jessica Gray, assistant athletics director at Texas Tech University, discusses student-athlete activism, COVID-19-related challenges and the little things that have helped her get through the pandemic.

March 22, 2021

Mendez Named Dean of Texas Tech College of Education

Dr. Jesse Perez Mendez, dean and professor at the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) School of Education, has been named dean of Texas Tech University’s College of Education. Mendez steps into his new role at Texas Tech Aug. 1. Mendez’s research interests include the dynamics of postsecondary access and policy issues in higher education. Mendez […]

June 25, 2019

Jesse Perez Mendez

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center to No Longer Use Race as Factor in Medical School Admissions

Officials from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center have announced the center will stop looking at race when reviewing student applications to its medical school. The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has ongoing investigations into the use of race in admissions practices at Yale and Harvard universities, which question whether Asian American applicants […]

April 9, 2019

Tenure Denial, Work Climate Spark Growing Bias Complaints By Women and Minority Faculty

Associate professor Dr. Patricia Young is trying to resuscitate an academic career that she said has flatlined at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and she has filed a discrimination complaint against the school alleging a pattern of being denied resources, promotion and career mobility on the basis of her race and gender.

November 19, 2018

Racist Comments Spark Investigation at Texas Tech

Officials and students at Texas Tech University are condemning recent “offensive” messages in a “Frat Chat” filled with racist comments that prompted the resignation of the school’s Interfraternity Council president.

June 25, 2018

Police: Student Confessed to Killing Texas Tech Campus Cop

DALLAS — A Texas Tech University student confessed to killing a campus police officer who had been booking him on a drug possession charge, telling detectives he had done “something illogical” and that “he was the one that shot their friend,” an investigator said. In an affidavit released Tuesday, Det. Thomas Bonds of the Lubbock […]

October 10, 2017

Faculty & Staff

Female Faculty Putting Productivity in Writing

Writing groups for female faculty aim to provide more opportunities for research, opening up pathways to promotion.

November 2, 2016

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