Texas Tech Chancellor Kent Hance, visiting Amarillo earlier this week, is rightfully proud of the school's progress and hopes it climbs to the next level by reaching Tier I status, which will make Tech a premier research university. Hance noted that Tech's Health Sciences Center in Amarillo is as important to the university as it is to the community - and hopes for even greater things happening at the Amarillo campus in the years to come.

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For Students, the New Kind of Literacy Is Financial

Oct 2, 2009

Eight years ago, Texas Tech University started a financial-literacy program to help its students master the basics of budgeting, saving, and not buying what they can't afford. Now, as colleges grapple with rising costs and an economic downturn, the university has found itself at the forefront of a growing effort to sharpen students' financial know-how.

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