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Welcome to Student Publications!

Student Publications

Student Publications

The Department of Student Publications provides students an opportunity for learning. It also provides the university at-large with a vehicle for discourse and dissemination of information through several communication channels. The department employs a student staff that is responsible for producing The J-TAC campus newspaper, the Grassburr yearbook, a summer orientation edition of The J-TAC for new students, the Student Handbook and Planner, and coordinates the Division of Student Life’s Internet presence. Students gain experience in modern journalism’s best practices and accepted techniques as well as print and new media production. Students gain marketable skills which they use to publish news, features and editorial opinion on topics relevant to the Tarleton State University community via these publications.


The Director of Student Publications bears the responsibility for compiling the Student Handbook and Planner, including all schedules, organization information, updates to policies and procedures, and calendar of significant events during the academic year. The planner is distributed to incoming freshmen and their parents during orientation and to the bulk of the student body during the first week of fall semester classes.


The Department of Student Publications has the added responsibility of designing and maintaining an Internet presence for the Division of Student Life and consults with division leaders regarding direction for its subordinate department’s Web presence.

Annual Survey

Thanks to all who responded to the Annual Survey on the J-TAC!  Your responses help to make it YOUR newspaper!