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ABOUT
US
The idea to present an African
American Education Summit (“AAES”) in West Texas was born
from three major partners and various stakeholders
throughout West Texas. Here is its story.
In the Spring of 2007, Kent Hance, the Chancellor of the
Texas Tech University System (“TTUS”) established a goal
to grow Texas Tech University’s enrollment to 40,000
students by the year 2020. Anticipating that many of those
students would come from diverse backgrounds, Chancellor
Hance and Special Assistant to the President, Dr. Juan
Munoz, established the
Chancellor’s African American Enrollment Task Force
(“AAET”) to generate a strategic vision for strengthening
its pipeline of African American students. Out of this
initiative, several
recommendations
were formulated and on August 7, 2007, a formal
presentation of those recommendations was made to the TTUS
Board of Regents.
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