How a chance encounter on a plane put a Frisco mom on track to college graduation
Erica Flores, 40, used to hate when people asked her where she went to college.
The man was Kent Hance, Texas Tech University’s chancellor emeritus who never misses an opportunity to recruit. Traveling to Austin for work , she chatted with Hance on the short flight, telling him she was focused on her career and raising her kids. At the time she had one each in elementary, middle and high schools in Dallas. But he was insistent that she reconsider college.From 2008 to 2016, the number of part-time students at four-year universities across Texas increased by 78%,, the think tank and advocacy group formerly known as the Center for Public Policy Priorities.
Flores credited much of her success at Texas Tech to Hance and her former boss and mentor, Mike Rosa, senior vice president of economic development of the Dallas Regional Chamber. During her first year of college, when her youngest daughter was about 6 years old, Flores would spread her books out on her bed or settle her computer in her lap to work on coursework.
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