{"id":418754,"date":"2026-08-28T00:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T00:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/418754\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T00:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T00:58:12","slug":"texas-tech-receives-30m-estate-gift-largest-in-universitys-history-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/418754\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech receives $30M estate gift, largest in university\u2019s history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas Tech is celebrating a $30 million estate gift to the Edward E. Whitacre College of Engineering. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Texas Tech President Lawrence Schovanec says the money will be used to enhance support for endowed scholarships and professorships. He says it will help recruit more students and staff members. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It will also fund new facilities and enhance current facilities at the College of Engineering. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWhen somebody, or a family makes a gift like this, I would say it\u2019s very humbling. That people are so grateful for the impact that Texas Tech had on them, and they somehow want to provide a mechanism for expanding that impact. Making it possible for others. It makes it a grave responsibility to make sure we are good stewards of this money,\u201d Schovanec said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The gift given by the Davis family is the largest estate gift in the university\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Texas Tech is celebrating a $30 million estate gift to the Edward E. Whitacre&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[145822,11349,319,251,168,170,169,1769,299],"class_list":["post-418754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-college-of-engineering","tag-donation","tag-kcbd","tag-local-news","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-texas-tech","tag-ttu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}