Texas Tech hosts President’s Gender Equity Awards amid DEI hiring policy controversy

By Melanie Escalante The President’s Excellence in Gender Equity Awards at Texas Tech highlight staff and faculty members who display efforts in promoting gender equity at all academic levels across the university. Archie Pitsilides, outreach committee chair for the Gender Equity Council and member of the Title IX committee, said in the five years he […]

Texas Tech implements “servingness” as a Hispanic Serving Institution

By Melanie Escalante In 2019 Texas Tech became a Hispanic Serving Institution, which is defined by the Federal Government as a non-profit, postsecondary degree-granting institution in which at least 25% of the undergraduate student enrollment population is Hispanic.  According to the American Council on Education website, the concept of servingness entails not just enrolling Hispanic […]