$44M for a 'sleeping giant' - Texas Tech gets single-largest gift in school history
Texas Tech University on Wednesday announced the single largest philanthropic donation received in the school’s history - and one of the largest investments in people and programs in an agricultural college in the country.
Gordon W. Davis, a Lubbock businessman who spent 10 years as an associate professor in the college, and his wife, Joyce, have given a $44 million donation to rename the Gordon W. Davis College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources and further support a program he helped bring into the national spotlight.
The gift will fund three areas within the college, including a $25 million endowment that will directly benefit the college, and $4 million to be directed to establish the Gordon and Joyce Davis Endowment for Excellence in Meat and Food Science. The remaining $15 million gift from the Gordon W. Davis estate will benefit future educational efforts within the college.
In his remarks, Davis emotionally recalled teaching his last class at Texas Tech in the spring of 1990, remembering telling his students the importance of giving back.
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