Tech's on track to achieve top-ranked research status

Well, 2010 brings Texas Tech yet another of those once-in-a-lifetime opportunities as we position ourselves to gain tier one research status and join the ranks of the nation's truly elite institutions of higher education.

When Texas Tech opened its doors in 1925, then-President Paul Whitfield Horn impressed upon students that they were partners in a great adventure, participants in an opportunity that comes to people "but once in a lifetime."

Well, 2010 brings Texas Tech yet another of those once-in-a-lifetime opportunities as we position ourselves to gain tier one research status and join the ranks of the nation's truly elite institutions of higher education.

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