Texas Tech University College Of Human Sciences
The College of Human Sciences (COHS) is one of the constituent units of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, Lubbock, Texas. It was founded in 1925 as the College of Home Economics as one of the four original colleges of Texas Tech. History When it opened in 1925, the then named School of Home Economics was one of the four original units of the university. Enrollment in 1925 included some 78 students and three faculty members. The college would remain named the School of Home Economics until 1993 when, after several years of deliberations, the current "College of Human Sciences" moniker would take effect. Margaret Watson Weeks was the initial Dean of the school from its founding in 1925 until 1953. It was under her leadership that the first (of four) additions to the original Home Economics Building (now Human Sciences Building) was completed in 1951. To date, most of the COHS faculty and classrooms are contained within the COHS Building and the nearby Human Sciences Cottage ...
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Lubbock, Texas
Lubbock ( ) is the 10th-most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of government of Lubbock County. With a population of 260,993 in 2021, the city is also the 85th-most populous in the United States. The city is in the northwestern part of the state, a region known historically and geographically as the Llano Estacado, and ecologically is part of the southern end of the High Plains, lying at the economic center of the Lubbock metropolitan area, which has an estimated population of 325,245 in 2021. Lubbock's nickname, "Hub City," derives from it being the economic, educational, and health-care hub of the multicounty region, north of the Permian Basin and south of the Texas Panhandle, commonly called the South Plains. The area is the largest contiguous cotton-growing region in the world and is heavily dependent on water from the Ogallala Aquifer for irrigation. Lubbock is home to Texas Tech University, the sixth-largest college by enrollment in the state. Hi ...
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