{"id":25575,"date":"2021-04-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-associate-professor-named-swpa-president-elect\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T16:48:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:48:25","slug":"tarleton-associate-professor-named-swpa-president-elect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-associate-professor-named-swpa-president-elect\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarleton Associate Professor Named SWPA President-elect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/11\/image-162.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 150%; max-width: 240px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/11\/image-162-200x300.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/11\/image-162-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/11\/image-162.jpg 240w\" alt=\"photo\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>photo<\/p>\n<p>FOR IPMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, April 20, 2021<\/p>\n<p>STEPHENVILLE, Texas \u2014\u00a0Tarleton Associate Professor Dr. Thomas Faulkenberry has been named President-elect of the Southwestern Psychological Association, the affiliate organization of the American Psychological Association.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Faulkenberry, assistant head of the Department of Psychological Sciences at Tarleton State University, previously served as SWPA treasurer and Texas representative. His three-year term ends in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>He also serves in other national organizations related to statistics education, including as Secretary-Treasurer of the Mathematical Association of America Special Interest Group (SIGMAA) on Statistics Education. He is a member of the Joint Committee on Undergraduate Statistics and Data Science Education, co-sponsored by the American Statistical Association and the Mathematical Association of America.<\/p>\n<p>The SWPA serves nine southwestern states with the mission of working to strengthen psychology\u2019s scientific, professional and educational facets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tarleton Associate Professor Dr. Thomas Faulkenberry has been named President-elect of the Southwestern Psychological Association, the affiliate organization of the American Psychological Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25578,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-research"],"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-163-300x200.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>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Academics &amp; Research<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 5 years ago","modified":"Updated 7 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on April 20, 2021","modified":"Updated on September 22, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on April 20, 2021 12:00 am","modified":"Updated on September 22, 2025 4:48 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"Smiling person in front of a wavy dark background.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25575","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=25575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53841,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25575\/revisions\/53841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}