While you were out: Events at Texas Tech during the summer

May 19

Thomas Anderes, Tech's executive vice president of administration and finance, announced his resignation before the 2008-2009 academic year. Anderes vacated the position Aug. 1 to go work in the University of Wisconsin System as the senior vice president for administration and fiscal affairs.

Anderes, who filled the position at Tech in 2004, said the February resignation of Jon Whitmore, Tech's former president, factored heavily into his decision to leave.

June 20

Lubbock native William Marcy announced his resignation from his post as Tech's provost. After about 30 years at Tech - first as an associate professor in the College of Engineering and then as dean of the college, becoming the university's provost in 2002 - Marcy will leave his post no later than Aug. 31.

June 24

Walter B. Huffman, dean of Tech's School of Law, announced he would be resigning his post no later than Aug. 29, 2009.

June 27

Texas Tech law student Kelli Stumbo was sworn in as Tech's third student regent.

While a student regent does not have the authority to vote in the board's decisions, he or she acts as a liaison between the board and its students. The student regent is a governor-appointed position that began at Tech in 2006.

July 2

After a six-month search, the Board of Regents announced a sole finalist for outgoing President Jon Whitmore's replacement: 57-year-old Guy Bailey, who formerly was the chancellor of the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Bailey's wife, Jan Bailey, received a degree from Tech in 1974.

By law, the university had to wait at least 21 days before officially appointing Bailey.

July 15

Tech Provost William Marcy announced the university was well on its way to regaining full accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, which put Tech on accreditation probation in December 2007 for failing to prove its core-curriculum requirements were properly educating students.

University officials said a SACS official gave the university a satisfactory preliminary evaluation in June and they expect to regain full SACS accreditation during the agency's Dec. 7 meeting.

July 22

Dean Smith, Tech's vice president for research since 2005, announced he would resign from his position no later than Oct. 1 to travel to Germany, where he said he intended to fill a visiting professorship within the medical faculty at the University of Heidelberg.

He said he will return to Tech to become a biology professor in October of 2009 after his year-long leave.

July 23

Guy Bailey officially was appointed as Tech's new president.

His three-year contract included a stipulation of a $350,000 annual salary, an $18,000 annual car allowance and a $42,000 yearly housing allowance.

Aug. 1

Guy Bailey was sworn in as Tech's new president.

Whitmore, Tech's former president, officially began his term as the president of California's San Jose State University.

Aug. 4

The Princeton Review, an educational services company based in New York, designated Tech as one of the best universities in the western United States. The company designates 632 universities from across the country, including 132 in the West, Tech's region.