TITLE: Recognizing March 4, 2015, as Texas Tech University System Day at the State Capitol.

SUMMARY: Recognizing March 4, 2015, as Texas Tech University System Day at the State Capitol.

FULL TEXT:
WHEREAS, Distinguished representatives of the Texas Tech University System are gathering at the State Capitol on March 4, 2015, to celebrate the system's vital role in the Lone Star State; and WHEREAS, The Texas Tech University System, governed by a nine-member board of regents and Chancellor Robert L. Duncan, consists of Texas Tech University, Angelo State University, and the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Centers at Lubbock and El Paso; the system is a $1.7 billion enterprise currently educating nearly 47,000 students, averaging more than $200 million in research expenditures annually, and counting approximately 290,000 alumni; in addition, it has an endowment of over $1 billion and some 17,000 faculty and staff focused on advancing higher education, health care, research, and outreach across the state; and WHEREAS, Each component of the system provides innovative educational and research opportunities; Texas Tech University is a major comprehensive research university, led by President M. Duane Nellis; enrolling more than 35,000 students in 10 colleges and two schools, TTU has set a new fall enrollment record for the past eight years, and it has seen an enrollment increase of 25 percent since 2007; with the goal of being one of the nation's premier research institutions, the university's total expenditures in that area topped $153 million in 2014; moreover, 10 faculty members were awarded grants from the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program in 2013, the most of any university in its class in the nation; and WHEREAS, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center is composed of five schools in various health care disciplines, including medicine, nursing, pharmacy, allied health sciences, and biomedical sciences, and has trained more than 20,000 health care professionals; overseen by Dr. Tedd L. Mitchell, TTUHSC enrolls more than 4,500 students and has tripled its research expenditures over the past five years, with significant studies under way in areas such as aging, cancer, reproduction, and genetic diseases; the university also graduates more health care professionals than any other health-related institution in Texas and addresses the medical needs of more than 2.5 million people who live throughout a vast 108-county area; and WHEREAS, Joining the system in 2007, Angelo State University enrolls nearly 6,500 students in five colleges and is directed by President Brian J. May; ASU was the first university in the state to offer a degree in computer science and has been named to the Princeton Review 's "Best Colleges" list for the past six years; unique to ASU, its Carr Scholarship program is funded by one of the largest endowments at a regional university in the United States, thus making scholarships attainable by one of every five of its students; and WHEREAS, The fourth and newest member of the system, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at El Paso became a comprehensive health-related institution in 2013 and encompasses the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, the Gayle Greve Hunt School of Nursing, and a regional Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences; headed by Dr. Richard A. Lange, the university has enrolled nearly 500 students, is home to the first medical school on the nation's southern border, and conducts important research focused on cancer, diabetes and obesity, infectious diseases, and neurosciences; and WHEREAS, True to their missions, the Texas Tech University System and its four component institutions continue to serve as influential leaders in the higher education and health care landscapes, and in so doing, they are contributing to the remarkable achievements of the state as a whole; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 84th Texas Legislature hereby recognize March 4, 2015, as Texas Tech University System Day at the State Capitol and extend a warm welcome to all those from the system who are visiting here today. Frullo Burrows Craddick Straus Gonz lez Otto Allen Guerra Paddie Alonzo Guillen Parker Alvarado Gutierrez Paul Anchia Harless Pe a Anderson of Dallas Hernandez Phelan Anderson of McLennan Herrero Phillips Ashby Howard Pickett Aycock Huberty Price Bell Hughes Raney Bernal Hunter Raymond Blanco Isaac Reynolds Bohac Israel Riddle Bonnen of Brazoria Johnson Rinaldi Bonnen of Galveston Kacal Rodriguez of Bexar Burkett Keffer Rodriguez of Travis Burns Keough Romero, Jr. Burrows King of Hemphill Rose Button King of Parker Sanford Canales King of Taylor Schaefer Capriglione King of Uvalde Schofield Clardy Klick Schubert Coleman Koop Shaheen Collier Krause Sheets Cook Kuempel Sheffield Craddick Landgraf Simmons Crownover Larson Simpson Cyrier Laubenberg Smith Dale Leach Smithee Darby Longoria Spitzer Davis of Dallas Lozano Springer Davis of Harris Lucio III Stephenson Deshotel M rquez Stickland Dukes Martinez Thompson of Brazoria Dutton Martinez Fischer Thompson of Harris Elkins McClendon Tinderholt Faircloth Men ndez Turner of Collin Fallon Metcalf Turner of Harris Farias Meyer Turner of Tarrant Farney Miles VanDeaver Farrar Miller of Comal Villalba Fletcher Miller of Fort Bend Vo Flynn Moody Walle Frank Morrison White of Bell Frullo Mu oz, Jr. White of Tyler Galindo Murphy Workman Geren Murr Wray Giddings Naishtat Wu Goldman Nev rez Zedler Gonzales Oliveira Zerwas Speaker of the House I certify that H.R. No. 574 was adopted by the House on March 4, 2015, by a non-record vote. Chief Clerk of the House