Editing Texas Tech University (section)

=== Expansion and growth ===
[[File:TTUadmin.jpg|thumb|upright|right|[[Administration Building (Texas Tech University)|Administration Building]]]]
By the 1960s, the school had expanded its offerings to more than just technical subjects.<ref name="Controversy"/> The Faculty Advisory Committee suggested changing the name to "Texas State University", feeling the phrase "Technological College" did not define the institution's scope.<ref name="Fighting"/> While most students supported this change, the Board of Directors and many alumni, wanting to preserve the [[Double T]], opposed it.<ref name="About Us: History"/> Other names—University of the Southwest, Texas Technological College and State University,<ref name="Triumph, tragedy in world's spotlight"/> and The Texas University of Art, Science and Technology—were considered,<ref name="Game"/> but the Board of Directors chose Texas Tech University, submitting it to the state legislature in 1964.

A failed move by [[John Connally|Governor John Connally]] to have the school placed into the [[Texas A&M University System]], as well as continued disagreement and heated debate over the school's new name, kept the name change from being approved.<ref name="Controversy"/><ref name="Fighting"/> In spite of objections by many students and faculty, the Board of Directors again submitted the change in 1969. It finally received the legislature's approval on June 6, and the name Texas Tech University went into effect that September.<ref name="Game"/> All of the institution's schools, except Law, became colleges.<ref name="Handbook"/><ref name="General Information"/>

Texas Tech was [[Racial integration|integrated]] in the summer of 1961 when its first [[African-American]] student, Lucille S. Graves, was admitted.<ref name="Diversity Timeline"/> After its initial rejection of African-American students' enrollment and the threat of a lawsuit, the university enacted a policy to admit "all qualified applicants regardless of color".<ref name="Advancing Democracy: African Americans and the Struggle for Access and Equity in Higher Education in Texas"/> The university offered its first athletic scholarship to a black student in 1967, when Danny Hardaway was recruited to play for the Red Raiders football team.<ref name="Hardaway relates Tech experience"/> In 1970, Hortense W. Dixon became the first African American student to earn a doctorate from the university.<ref name="Texas Tech University Archives: Graduation Milestones"/> In 1972 Emory Grant Davis became the first full-time African American faculty member.<ref name="Diversity Timeline"/>

In the 1960s and 1970s, the university invested [[United States dollar|US$]]150&nbsp;million in the campus to construct buildings for the library, foreign languages, social sciences, communications, philosophy, electrical and petroleum engineering, art, and architecture. Some other buildings were significantly expanded.<ref name="TTUS"/>

On May 29, 1969, the [[Sixty-first Texas Legislature|61st Texas Legislature]] created the Texas Tech University School of Medicine.<ref name="Texas Tech University Archives: Medical School"/> The Texas Legislature expanded the medical school charter in 1979, creating the [[Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center]]. TTUHSC, which is now part of the [[Texas Tech University System]], includes Schools of Allied Health Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. It has locations in four Texas cities in addition to the main campus in Lubbock.<ref name="Profile: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center"/>

In 2011, the combined enrollment in the [[Texas Tech University System]] was greater than 42,000 students—a 48% increase since 2000. Chancellor Kent Hance reiterated plans for Texas Tech's main campus to reach enrollment of 40,000 students by 2020, with additional 5,000 students at [[Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center]] and 10,000 students at [[Angelo State University]].<ref name="Balancing state's budget requires all do fair share"/>