The banquet will include award presentations honoring Texas Tech and Lubbock community members and a keynote address from Emmy Award-winning journalist Elizabeth Vargas.
WHAT: Texas Tech University's Office of Institutional Diversity will host its annual Celebrate Diversity Awards Banquet
WHEN: 7 p.m. Thursday (Nov. 18)
WHERE: Frazier Alumni Pavilion, 2680 Drive of Champions, Texas Tech campus
EVENT: This is an annual event that generates scholarship funds for deserving students, while
also recognizing those within the Texas Tech and Lubbock communities who exemplify
inclusive excellence.
This year, Margaret L. Williams, dean of the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business and Fernando Valle, interim department chair for the inaugural Department of Special Education in the
College of Education, will be recognized as recipients of the Inclusive Excellence Award. Eddie McBride,
retiring president of the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce, also will be honored as the
recipient of the Senator Robert L. Duncan Community Champion Award.
The evening's keynote speaker will be Elizabeth Vargas, an Emmy Award-winning journalist,
author and addiction recovery advocate. Vargas hosts “America's Most Wanted” on Fox
and also hosted the hit newsmagazine show “20/20” on ABC for 15 years. She also was
co-anchor of “World News Tonight,” and news anchor and frequent host of “Good Morning America.”
CONTACT:
Cory Powell
Director, Office of Institutional Diversity, Texas Tech University
cory.powell@ttu.edu
(806) 834-0991
