{"id":25531,"date":"2021-05-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-to-honor-spring-graduates-at-may-14-15-commencement-exercises\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T16:46:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:46:17","slug":"tarleton-to-honor-spring-graduates-at-may-14-15-commencement-exercises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-to-honor-spring-graduates-at-may-14-15-commencement-exercises\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarleton to Honor Spring Graduates at May 14, 15 Commencement Exercises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n<p>Friday, May 7, 2021<\/p>\n<p>STEPHENVILLE, Texas \u2014\u00a0Tarleton State University will celebrate spring 2021 graduates with in-person commencement ceremonies May 14 and 15 at Memorial Stadium on the Stephenville campus.<\/p>\n<p>Tarleton President James Hurley will preside over\u00a0four\u00a0ceremonies, beginning at 9 a.m. Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Dates and times:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday, May 14<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>9 a.m. \u2014 College of Business, College of Health Sciences and Human Services<\/p>\n<p>4 p.m. \u2014 College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, College of Liberal and Fine Arts<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday, May 15<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>9 a.m. \u2014 College of Education, College of Science and Technology<\/p>\n<p>4 p.m. \u2014 College of Graduate Studies<\/p>\n<p>Social distancing must be maintained in all settings. Parking lots will be cleared after each session to make room for the next graduates and their families.<\/p>\n<p>For more information or to watch a live-stream of the proceedings, go to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/graduation\">www.tarleton.edu\/graduation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For maps of the Stephenville campus, including parking locations, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/campus\">www.tarleton.edu\/campus<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tarleton State University will celebrate spring 2021 graduates with in-person commencement ceremonies May 14 and 15 at Memorial Stadium on the Stephenville campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423,425],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-research","category-campus-community"],"acf":{"image":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"keegan","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/author\/keegan-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/11\/image-142-300x200.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/category\/academics-research\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Academics &amp; Research<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/category\/campus-community\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Campus &amp; Community<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Academics &amp; Research<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Campus &amp; Community<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 5 years ago","modified":"Updated 6 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on May 7, 2021","modified":"Updated on September 22, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on May 7, 2021 12:00 am","modified":"Updated on September 22, 2025 4:46 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"Graduate showing ring and diploma at ceremony.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53829,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25531\/revisions\/53829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}