Core Values: Excellence & Integrity

Risk Management is committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for our Tarleton community. Risk Management embodies the core values of excellence and integrity in their work, which is essential when maintaining the safety of our students, faculty, staff and visitors. They manage the Code Purple alerts to help protect our community in the event of a crisis or emergency. They also provide information and programs on emergency preparedness, such as inclement weather events and fire safety. Risk Management supports environmental awareness and recycling initiatives. In addition, they facilitate insurance programs for property, travel, and special events

Core Values: Excellence & Service

SSC Services for Education is an essential service that keeps Tarleton operating smoothly while also looking our best. SSC contracts with Tarleton to provide custodial services, grounds management, and facilities maintenance. 

 In the wake of COVID-19, SSC embodied the core values of Excellence and Service in their commitment to keeping Tarleton safe. SSC adapted quickly to the crisis, incorporating hospital-grade anti-microbial technologies into their disinfecting program. SSC’s work allowed students to return to Tarleton and focus on their education in a safe and clean environment.

Core Values: Excellence & Integrity

Tarleton Athletics focuses on developing teamwork, sportsmanship, and competitiveness while also fostering Tarleton Core Values. Men’s sports include Baseball, Basketball, Cross Country, Football, and Indoor & Outdoor Track and Field. Women’s sports include Basketball, Cross Country, Golf, Indoor & Outdoor Track and Field, Softball, Tennis, and Volleyball.

 On November 12, 2019, Tarleton State University President Dr. James Hurley announced that the institution accepted an invitation to join the Western Athletic Conference and will transition to NCAA Division I in July, 2020.

Core Values: Integrity & Service

Since its inception in 1994, the Laboratory for Wellness and Motor Behavior (LWMB) has given numerous clients hope, healing, and encouragement under the guidance of Dr. Joe Priest, its founder and director.

LWMB personnel develop customized training programs for people dealing with complications from neurological disorders, strokes, and spinal cord injuries.

Team Kinesiology^® students and LWMB faculty oversee training programs based on each client’s specific needs and goals. The programs include workout plans for low-intensity training in a team environment.

Clients can participate in LWMB programs as long as needed, free of charge.

Core Values: Integrity & Service

The TaRleton Equine Assisted Therapeutic (TREAT) Riding program began in 1995 and is a Premier Accredited Center with PATH, Intl. The program incorporates horseback riding to facilitate physical, emotional, and recreational therapy.

Personnel work with community groups and individuals, provide riding time for veterans and their families, and research the effects of therapeutic riding. They also host events like the Special Kids Rodeo that boost the participants’ self-confidence, self-awareness, and discipline.

TREAT Riding helps train college students pursuing careers in equine assisted therapy and those involving special needs children.

Core Values: Excellence & Tradition

To give students experience in journalism, graphic design, photography, video production, management, and sales, Student Publications staff produce two campus publications that act as historical records of university and student activities. The Grassburr has served as the student yearbook since 1916. It features information about and photos of the school, students, faculty, and organizations. JTAC News provide updates about campus events, programs, schedules, and news. It began as a literary journal, The John Tarleton, in 1901 and changed to a weekly news sheet, the Tarletonite, in 1904. It was renamed The J-TAC in 1919 and JTAC News in 2013.

Core Values: Leadership & Service

Making the world more beautiful through fellowship and service has been the Horticulture Club’s goal since being founded in the 1979-1980 school year.

The club sponsors and participates in service projects and events that foster appreciation for and awareness of the art and science of growing plants. They help with plant propagation, floral displays, and pollinator-friendly landscaping initiatives on campus on campus, participate in recruiting events and Horticulture Center tours, hold seasonal and specialty plant sales, help with the Tarleton Round-Up, and participate in the Texas Nursery & Landscape Association Expo Tarleton students of all majors are welcome to join.

Core Values: Civility & Leadership

With their service and leadership, Tarleton Transition Mentors (TTM) are instrumental in helping new students adjust to college life and embrace their new community.

TTM members assist the Transition and Family Relations staff with three programs. First, during Texan Orientations, members guide new students as they learn about university resources, meet academic advisors, and register for fall classes. Second, they introduce students to Tarleton traditions and help them form peer connections during Duck Camps. Third, their leadership roles continue through Texan Transition Week activities.

Core Values: Leadership & Service

Tarleton’s Collegiate FFA emphasizes leadership, professional development, and service to the university, as well as community service and service to youth involved in agriculture. 

Members are active in campus events, state meetings, promotional programs, chapter education, and the Texas and National Collegiate FFA Conventions, which provide leadership opportunities, career/leadership development events (CDE/LDE), workshops, and career fairs.

Also, members are instrumental in the success of the Tarleton-hosted area and state contests that bring almost 20,000 FFA visitors to campus each year.

Core Value: Excellence

In 1947, a group of students formed the campus Rodeo Association with the hopes of encouraging participation in rodeo activities. They were successful.

By 1964, rodeo memberships exceeded those of any other campus group. That same year, Tarleton joined the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association (NIRA) and members began competing in officially sanctioned rodeo events.

Tarleton has one of the largest rodeo associations in the nation. Members are skilled competitors: As of 2013, teams had won 6 national championships and individuals had won 19 national championships.

Core Value: Tradition

In 1925, Tarleton’s athletic teams were officially named Plowboys; they kept that name during the time Tarleton was a junior college. After Tarleton became a 4-year college, the students voted in 1961 to change the teams’ name to Tarleton Texans.

Dr. Barry B. Thompson, 13th President of Tarleton, and several students revived the Plowboys name in 1983 when they established a new spirit organization and chose to call themselves Plowboys.

To show their support for Tarleton, the Plowboys attend most athletic events and official campus events. They also sponsor community service projects

Core Value: Excellence

In 1928, the Tarleton Players made their debut in the Grassburr, which states they represent the best dramatic talent — a statement that holds true more than 80 years later.

The Players promote interest and experience in the theatrical arts, as well as encourage campus and community involvement.

Members also participate in campus productions and provide support to the Cross Timbers Fine Arts Council. Membership is open to all Tarleton students.

Core Value: Leadership

Dr. F. Dominic Dottavio is the 15th President of Tarleton State University. According to his official biography:

President Dottavio provide strategic direction and mission-focused leadership for a university with a reputation for quality teaching, research that benefits all citizens, and a caring campus community. Well-known by students for being engaged and accessible, Dr. Dottavio resides on campus in the historic Trogdon House; the first Tarleton president to do so since the home’s namesake, President W.O. Trogdon.

He encourages all campus community members to pursue the 4 Es: Excel in scholarship, teaching & learning, Expand our horizons, Encourage leadership, service& student success, and Extend our reach.