TEXAS TECH RAWLS COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCES ENDOWED CHAIR

EVENT ADVISORY
Date: February 21, 2005
CONTACT: Sally Logue Post, sally.post@ttu.edu


WHAT: Gift announcement

WHEN: 11 a.m. Tuesday (Feb. 22)

WHERE: Lubbock Country Club, second floor

EVENT: The Texas Tech University Rawls College of Business Administration announces the establishment of the $1 million Kent Hance Regents’ Endowed Chair. The endowment will be used in the area of entrepreneurship.

Hance is a 1965 graduate of Texas Tech University with a bachelor’s in business administration. He served Lubbock in the Texas state senate from 1974-1978 and in the U.S. Congress from 1979-1985.

The chair is one of several established under the Regents Faculty Endowment Program. Gifts of $500,000 are matched with existing university funds to create a named chair. The program is part of the university’s goal of recruiting and retaining quality faculty members.


CONTACT: Sally Logue Post, director of communications and broadcast media, Office of Communications and Marketing, (806) 742-2136.


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