{"id":3059,"date":"2025-03-18T16:14:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T16:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/honors\/?page_id=3059"},"modified":"2026-07-22T17:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:03:15","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/honors\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:clamp(21.536px, 1.346rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 1.98), 35px);\"><strong>What is the Honors College?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-tarleton-off-white-color has-tarleton-purple-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-b8cdbe71977b7b7a1b5e0aa329e9e5a5 advgb-dyn-8779ef49 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.147), 15px);\">At Tarleton, the Honors College houses three distinct programs: University Honors, Distinguished Honors, and the Presidential Honors Program. Admission is highly competitive due to limited space in the Honors Hall and small honors class sizes. Undergraduate students from any major can join the Honors College and become part of a supportive community of high-achieving peers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-tarleton-off-white-color has-tarleton-purple-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-a45454335fb846ccef3b0f76807fc041 advgb-dyn-6f5f92f6 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.147), 15px);\">The goal of the Honors College is to provide a challenging academic environment that fosters intellectual growth, critical thinking, and lifelong learning. Graduating from the Honors College gives students a competitive advantage when applying to graduate or professional programs and pursuing careers that value exceptional academic achievement and intellectual curiosity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the Honors College? At Tarleton, the Honors College houses three distinct programs: University Honors, Distinguished Honors, and the Presidential Honors Program. Admission is highly competitive due to limited &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":756,"featured_media":580,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3059","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":null,"coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/honors\/blog\/author\/sfranztarleton-edu\/","display_name":"sfranz"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 1 year ago","modified":"Updated 2 weeks ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on March 18, 2025","modified":"Updated on July 22, 2026"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on March 18, 2025 4:14 pm","modified":"Updated on July 22, 2026 5:03 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","featured_img":false,"series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/756"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3417,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3059\/revisions\/3417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}