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 […]

Dollars and Sense: Student Loan Forgiveness and Advancing Racial Equity

By Melanie Escalante, The Hub@TTU With Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan being blocked by a Texas judge who deemed the plan as unlawful,  Texas Tech academics and potential recipients spoke on how the financial assistance can advance racial equity in communities of color. The plan called for the cancellation of federal student loans up […]