Texas Tech University initiatives include wind energy, food safety, agricultural research, the Ogallala Aquifer, the University Transportation Center, and their Hill Country campuses in Highland Lakes, Junction, and Fredericksburg.
Texas Tech sends a contingent of administrators and supporters to Austin during each legislative session.
Tech says that they are well on the way to meeting their institutional goal of 40,000 students by the year 2020.
The school’s board of trustees appointed Judy L. Bonner, the University of Alabama’s provost and interim president.
Bailey began as president of the University of Alabama in September of 2012. He had been president of Texas Tech since 2008.
Peggy Miller has taken over the post of Vice Provost at Texas Tech
Williams, also a professor of anthropology, serves as the associate dean of finance for the college.
The 10-member committee is chaired by Jerry E. Turner, chairman of the Board of Regents and a 1968 graduate of Texas Tech.
Schovanec will serve until a search committee selects a replacement for Guy Bailey, who accepted a position as president of the University of Alabama.
