Bill would make Texas Tech med school in El Paso independent campus - El Paso Times

Separated by more than 300 miles, El Paso and Lubbock are different in many ways and that is clear in how their medical schools operate, according to Texas Tech officials pushing to give the border campus more autonomy.

Legislation filed by state Sen. José Rodríguez, D-El Paso, and state Rep. Naomi Gonzalez, D-El Paso, seeks to make Texas Tech's Health Sciences Center at El Paso a freestanding health sciences center with its own president. The move would convert El Paso's regional campus into the fourth university under the Texas Tech System.

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