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March 7, 2007
Texas Tech Partners with Comanche Nation College
A new agreement creates more opportunities for Comanche students to attend Texas Tech.
Written by Sally Logue Post
Provost Bill Marcy signs an agreement with the president of the Comanche Nation College, Kim Winkleman.
Looking on (l-r), representing Texas Tech University: President Jon Whitmore, Chancellor Kent Hance, Stephanie Anderson, associate vice president for enrollment management and Jim Brink, senior vice provost; representing Comanche Nation College: Juanita Pahdoeony, and Harry Mithlo.
Texas Tech’s 47th Pathway Agreement with Comanche Nation College is a first. Not only the first tribal school to join forces with Texas Tech, but the first alliance with a two-year college in Oklahoma.
Provost Bill Marcy signed the agreement in March with the president of the Comanche Nation College, Kim Winkleman.Pathway agreements allow for the seamless transfer of credits from a community college to Texas Tech University. Texas Tech has similar agreements across Texas and one in New Mexico.
“With the Pathway agreement we also work with the college in terms of recruiting and admissions,” said Jim Brink, senior vice provost. “We send admissions personnel to the school to talk to students about transferring to Texas Tech. We encourage them to visit our campus.”
The Comanche Nation College is a new two-year college located in Lawton, Okla. The Southern High Plains of Texas is originally Comanche land, a fact not lost on university administration or Comanche Nation College President Kim Winkleman.
“I think it’s very appropriate that Texas Tech knows it is located on what was once Comanche land and want a relationship with our college,” said Winkleman. “Our collaboration with a state university, especially a research university such as Texas Tech gives us so many more venues. It will be a win-win situation for both Texas Tech and for the Comanche Nation College.”
“We see this agreement as an appropriate way to encourage students from the Comanche Nation College to return to their home territory to continue their education,” said Bill Marcy, Texas Tech provost. “This agreement isn’t just limited to students. It could mean an exchange of faculty and development of joint programs down the road.”
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