Kent Hance Former Chancellor of Texas Tech University Interviewed by Host Aaron Alejandro on Growing Our Future Podcast

Mission Matters Podcast Agency distributes the Growing Our Future Podcast

Kent Hance is a former U.S. Congressman. He is also the former Chancellor of Texas Tech University (TTU) in Lubbock, Texas and the Founding Partner at Hance Scarborough, LLP. He attributes his parents for his strong fundamentals and a hard work ethic. Hance grew up on a farm. In the summer he would plow the wheat fields all day in the summer from seven in the morning to seven at night. “I would dream a lot of dreams because there was nothing else to do, an exciting day was when you saw three or four pick-up trucks pass by and you would wave at them and it would give you something to think about.” recalled Hance. “My motto has always been to dream no little dreams. Dream big dreams!” driving that tractor, he had time to imagine his future possibilities. “I ran punts for touchdowns in the Cotton Bowl, ran the 100-yard dash…and I thought about politics,” he emphasized. While some of these daydreams did not come to fruition “The hard work helped me to get a strong foundation and that was important to me,” Hance added.

Hance was active in vocational agriculture and was a member of the FFA (Future Farmers of America) at Dimmitt High School. Parliamentary Procedure was his specialty and it demanded a focus on details and discipline. His team won one district and one regional. From this experience, he explained his FFA responsibilities had multiple key areas for young people to focus on. “The two things that you have to remember are details and discipline. All successful people that I have been around all take care of details. If you are hiring someone and you can assess that they can’t take care of details, don’t hire them. They will have a lot of problems. If you want to do anything, you want to do it right,” he said with conviction. Hance stressed that agricultural education teaches so many skills and values. “FFA helped me a lot…The policy in the FFA creed tells…