05/10/2026
Since its founding in 1986, the Texas Tech Center for Students in Addiction Recovery has provided support and opportunity for students on their recovery journeys. Today, the CSAR continues to build a better future for struggling students by helping them grow past their addictions and form new lives.
The Texas Tech Center for Students in Addiction Recovery gives students struggling with substance abuse access to a university-led support network dedicated to helping students with financial, academic, and recovery support.
CSAR director William “Buddy” Ge**er from Lamesa has been directing the program since August of 2022. Along with working as CSAR’s director, Ge**er works as an assistant professor of practice in the Department of Community, Family, and Addiction Sciences, and he was the first Tech student to be awarded a doctorate in Addictive Disorders and Recovery Studies.
Ge**er, a Tech alumni, joined the long-term recovery program himself during his time as a student and hopes to provide for students the same life-changing care that got him where he is today.
“I thought my chance at college had passed me by. I had 72 credit hours and a 1.04 GPA. But the Center gave me the opportunity to come back and finish my bachelor’s degree, and I went on and wound up getting a Ph.D.,” Ge**er said. “I didn’t see myself as a person who failed out, I saw myself as a college graduate.”
Ge**er said he is grateful for the opportunity to be a part of a program that does such life-changing work for students and that he could never give up the chance to do so.
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✍️ Sawyer Speltz
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