Waching daily Jul 27 2017

>> Lawrence Schovanec, President: On behalf of our students, faculty and staff, it is my privilege to welcome you

to Texas Tech University. In six years, we will be celebrating the university's

100th birthday. We have much of which to be proud.

Texas Tech has always had a sense of destiny and of the impact it would

have on the world. Our first President, Paul Whitfield Horn, in a convocation

speech to the inaugural class of Texas Tech in 1925, challenged his

contemporaries and all who have since been part of this university to think

big when he said, "Let our thoughts be big thoughts and broad thoughts. Let our

thinking be in worldwide terms." Indeed, Texas Tech University has emerged as a

Tier One research institution with a global impact, where

inclusive access and student success are still core values. For

instance, next fall, we'll be admitting our first class to Texas Tech University

in Costa Rica. Our growing international engagement and record of scholarship and

creative activity has helped us to move up in world university rankings and to

be designated as a 'highest research activity' university by the Carnegie

Classification of Institutions of Higher Learning.

I am proud that Texas Tech is an increasingly diverse community. As we

continue to grow, we need to work together to promote an environment that

fosters success for our students, faculty and staff. I hope your experience at

Texas Tech is professionally and personally fulfilling and that you come

to feel the sense of family and the intensity of spirit of what it means to

be a Red Raider. It is a culture that is characterized by an unpretentious nature,

a strong work ethic, a can-do attitude, pride and individualism, but also warmth.

Texas Tech has these qualities and characteristics that distinguish us from

other institutions. I am proud to welcome you to

Texas Tech University.