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Texas Tech Launches Dual-Credit Partnership with University of Texas at Austin

Jan 12, 2017

The project will work to increase the long-term value of dual-credit programs.

tags : Academics, Provost, Stories, Vice President for Research

Mexico's Climate Migrants are Already Coming to the United States

Jan 12, 2017

Grist - In December 1997, Nadia Flores-Yeffal awoke early in a small town in the state of Guanajuato, in the heart of Mexico. She pulled on her shoes and followed a local guide down a cactus-fringed dirt path, past old adobe houses intermixed with newer construction. They walked for more than an hour, out of the small town where Flores-Yeffal was spending a month to research her senior thesis, until they came to a rocky, snake-infested hill. At the top, she found what she was looking for: the 100-square-foot garden plots where local families farmed their staple crops. The rows of corn and beans were sparse and dry; many of the plots were empty.

tags : Texas Tech in the News