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Texas Tech Reaches $1B in Fundraising 2/9/13
Associated Press
February 9, 2013
LUBBOCK - The Texas Tech University System has reached the $1
billion fundraising mark in a campaign that began two years ago.
The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal (http://bit.ly/WVY4rh ) reported Saturday that
university Chancellor Kent Hance celebrated the mark along with school officials
and others Friday, saying the goal was reached a year ahead of schedule and
during a recession.
The system, which includes Texas Tech, the university's health sciences
center and Angelo State University, launched the Texas Tech Vision & Tradition
campaign in 2010. The fundraising campaign is ongoing.
Kelly Overley, the system's vice chancellor for institutional advancement,
said the campaign's success is due to donors and to those who did the
fundraising.
"This campaign was audacious, it was bold and it was historic," she said.
"This campaign will forever change the face of Texas Tech."
Reaching a $1 billion puts the university system in a small group. Fewer
than 70 universities have raised $1 billion, the newspaper reported.
Donations have come from monthly and annual faculty and alumni contributions
as well as multimillion-dollar endowments for faculty positions, buildings and
programs - including the Rawls College of Business, football stadium expansions
and an autism center.
At least $145 million was raised for scholarships.
The money came from 120,000 people in all 50 states and 39 countries, which
Hance said shows the school is a "worldwide institution."
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Information from: Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, http://www.lubbockonline.com