South Texas College of Law Houston Launching Diversity Center With $3M Alumnus Donation | Texas Lawyer - Law.com
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- South Texas College of Law Houston graduate and his wife give $3 million to fund a new diversity center.
- The funder, Benny Agosto, managing partner of a Houston trial firm, hopes the center will be a model for other schools.
- Plans call for a professorship, a speakig program, diversity scholarships, and support for the Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy.
South Texas College of Law Houston will launch a diversity center funded by a $3 million donation from alumnus Benny Agosto and his wife, with a goal of establishing a model for other law schools.
The donation will fund the hiring of a program director for The Benny Agosto Jr. Diversity Center at South Texas College of Law Houston, and also support diversity scholarships and programing for lawyers, a professorship, and set up office space at the downtown Houston law school. It also will help the law school expand the Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy, a journal Agosto established at the law school in 2016.
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