kent hance

Governor Rick Perry is in Lubbock tomorrow – he’ll help honor Texas Tech Chancellor Kent Hance at a reception on campus and accept an award for his work in rehabilitating drug offenders. Perry will make remarks at an event honoring Texas Tech Chancellor Kent Hance at a reception on campus...

The University will name the Michael Herd Fracturing and Production Laboratory, located in the new Petroleum Engineering Research Building in his honor.

For the second consecutive day, Texas Tech University has announced the receipt of donations over seven figures.  A combined $1.8 million has been donated from multiple donors to the Texas Tech Petroleum Engineering Department. The funds will be used to help complete the new Petroleum Engineering Research Building and parts of the new building will be named after the donors...

Texas Tech University officials Thursday afternoon officially announced a $19.3 million gift from Bayer CropScience.  The donation will be used for research programs and projects in the College of Agriculture Sciences and Natural Resources...

The group has selected Wheless Partners Executive Search, a national search firm, to assist in the selection of the candidate.

As chancellor emeritus, Kent Hance will no longer report to the Texas Tech Board of Regents, and will report directly to the next chancellor.

Eli Velasquez will be responsible for managing intellectual property and technology transfer for each university within the Texas Tech system.

The committee will help identify potential candidates, assist with initial screenings, and make recommendations to the full Board of Regents, who will make the final decision.

At a press conference following the Texas Tech Board of Regents’ executive session on Friday, Hance announced that he plans to retire at the end of the year, but will stay on until a replacement is found.

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