Bill Text: TX HR574 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Recognizing March 4, 2015, as Texas Tech University System Day at the State Capitol.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-03-05 - Reported enrolled [HR574 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HR574-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Recognizing March 4, 2015, as Texas Tech University System Day at the State Capitol.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-03-05 - Reported enrolled [HR574 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HR574-Introduced.html
84R9067 BK-F | ||
By: Frullo | H.R. No. 574 |
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WHEREAS, Distinguished representatives of the Texas Tech | ||
University System are gathering at the State Capitol on March 4, | ||
2015, to celebrate the system's vital role in the Lone Star State; | ||
and | ||
WHEREAS, The Texas Tech University System, governed by a | ||
nine-member board of regents and Chancellor Robert L. Duncan, | ||
consists of Texas Tech University, Angelo State University, and the | ||
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Centers at Lubbock and El | ||
Paso; the system is a $1.7 billion enterprise currently educating | ||
nearly 47,000 students, averaging more than $200 million in | ||
research expenditures annually, and counting approximately 290,000 | ||
alumni; in addition, it has an endowment of over $1 billion and some | ||
17,000 faculty and staff focused on advancing higher education, | ||
health care, research, and outreach across the state; and | ||
WHEREAS, Each component of the system provides innovative | ||
educational and research opportunities; Texas Tech University is a | ||
major comprehensive research university, led by President M. Duane | ||
Nellis; enrolling more than 35,000 students in 10 colleges and two | ||
schools, TTU has set a new fall enrollment record for the past eight | ||
years, and it has seen an enrollment increase of 25 percent since | ||
2007; with the goal of being one of the nation's premier research | ||
institutions, the university's total expenditures in that area | ||
topped $153 million in 2014; moreover, 10 faculty members were | ||
awarded grants from the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program in 2013, the | ||
most of any university in its class in the nation; and | ||
WHEREAS, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center is | ||
composed of five schools in various health care disciplines, | ||
including medicine, nursing, pharmacy, allied health sciences, and | ||
biomedical sciences, and has trained more than 20,000 health care | ||
professionals; overseen by Dr. Tedd L. Mitchell, TTUHSC enrolls | ||
more than 4,500 students and has tripled its research expenditures | ||
over the past five years, with significant studies under way in | ||
areas such as aging, cancer, reproduction, and genetic diseases; | ||
the university also graduates more health care professionals than | ||
any other health-related institution in Texas and addresses the | ||
medical needs of more than 2.5 million people who live throughout a | ||
vast 108-county area; and | ||
WHEREAS, Joining the system in 2007, Angelo State University | ||
enrolls nearly 6,500 students in five colleges and is directed by | ||
President Brian J. May; ASU was the first university in the state to | ||
offer a degree in computer science and has been named to the | ||
Princeton Review's "Best Colleges" list for the past six years; | ||
unique to ASU, its Carr Scholarship program is funded by one of the | ||
largest endowments at a regional university in the United States, | ||
thus making scholarships attainable by one of every five of its | ||
students; and | ||
WHEREAS, The fourth and newest member of the system, Texas | ||
Tech University Health Sciences Center at El Paso became a | ||
comprehensive health-related institution in 2013 and encompasses | ||
the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, the Gayle Greve Hunt School | ||
of Nursing, and a regional Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences; | ||
headed by Dr. Richard A. Lange, the university has enrolled nearly | ||
500 students, is home to the first medical school on the nation's | ||
southern border, and conducts important research focused on cancer, | ||
diabetes and obesity, infectious diseases, and neurosciences; and | ||
WHEREAS, True to their missions, the Texas Tech University | ||
System and its four component institutions continue to serve as | ||
influential leaders in the higher education and health care | ||
landscapes, and in so doing, they are contributing to the | ||
remarkable achievements of the state as a whole; now, therefore, be | ||
it | ||
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 84th Texas | ||
Legislature hereby recognize March 4, 2015, as Texas Tech | ||
University System Day at the State Capitol and extend a warm welcome | ||
to all those from the system who are visiting here today. |