Tech semester to start with increased students, fees, prospects for tier one - LubbockOnline.com

  • By zz-omni-cms
  • August 22, 2011










Texas Tech students coming back to campus this week for fall classes will see a university streamlined by hundreds of employee cuts but boosted by an ever-growing student population with slightly higher test scores.

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Earlier this month, Tech’s Board of Regents passed a nearly $1.5-billion systemwide budget for Tech, the Health Sciences Center and Angelo State University in San Angelo. The budget included an increase for Tech of just more than 4 percent, or $27 million, from $660 million in 2011 to $687 million in 2012. The budget also featured cuts, including the elimination of 218 employee positions and the loss of 75 low-producing degree programs.

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