{"id":26405,"date":"2020-03-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-named-to-ptk-transfer-honor-roll\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T09:37:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T14:37:53","slug":"tarleton-named-to-ptk-transfer-honor-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-named-to-ptk-transfer-honor-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarleton named to PTK Transfer Honor Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, March 25, 2020<\/p>\n<p>STEPHENVILLE, Texas &mdash;&nbsp;Tarleton State University has been named to the Phi Theta Kappa 2020 Transfer Honor Roll. The honor roll recognized 122&nbsp;four-year schools that have developed&nbsp;transfer pathways leading to success&nbsp;for community college students.<\/p>\n<p>Tarleton is one of just three Texas public institutions to make the distinguished list.<\/p>\n<p>Colleges and universities were selected based on their Transfer Friendliness Rating,&nbsp;determined by a profile they create in PTK Connect, Phi Theta Kappa&rsquo;s online tool that&nbsp;helps&nbsp;students&nbsp;find&nbsp;their best-fit colleges.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Transfer Honor Roll reflects the growing importance of recognizing and responding to&nbsp;the needs of transfer students,&rdquo; Phi Theta Kappa&nbsp;President and CEO Lynn Tincher-Ladner&nbsp;said. &ldquo;This award is given to four-year colleges and universities with proven outcomes for&nbsp;transfer success. They are the best at providing a supportive and smooth transition from&nbsp;community college, equating to increased rates of bachelor&rsquo;s degree attainment for&nbsp;transfer students.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Colleges utilizing PTK Connect complete a profile that asks questions about&nbsp;admissions practices, cost of attendance, campus life, recruitment practices and peer&nbsp;reviews.&nbsp;It is meant to reflect what the transfer student experience is like at their colleges,&nbsp;as well as the strategies they&rsquo;re taking to support and enroll transfer students.<\/p>\n<p>Phi Theta Kappa is the premier honor society recognizing the academic achievement of&nbsp;students at associate degree-granting colleges and helping them grow as scholars and&nbsp;leaders. The honor society has more than 3.5 million members and nearly 1,300&nbsp;chapters in 11 nations, with approximately 240,000 active members in the nation&rsquo;s colleges.<\/p>\n<p>Tarleton, founding member of The Texas A&amp;M University System, provides a student-focused, value-driven education marked by academic innovation and a dedication to transform today&#8217;s scholars into tomorrow&#8217;s leaders. It offers degree programs to more than 13,000 students at Stephenville, Fort Worth, Waco, Midlothian, RELLIS Academic Alliance in Bryan, and online, emphasizing real-world learning experiences that address societal needs while maintaining its core values of tradition, integrity, civility, excellence, leadership and service.<\/p>\n<p>Contact: Phil Riddle<br \/>817-484-4415<br \/><a href=\"mailto:priddle@tarleton.edu\">priddle@tarleton.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tarleton State University has been named to the Phi Theta Kappa 2020 Transfer Honor Roll. The honor roll recognized 122&nbsp;four-year schools that have developed&nbsp;transfer pathways leading to success&nbsp;for community college students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49676,"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":[425],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":{"image":null},"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\/2023\/10\/Spring-Flowers-Admin-Gates_7545-300x200.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<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\">Campus &amp; Community<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 6 years ago","modified":"Updated 6 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on March 25, 2020","modified":"Updated on October 7, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on March 25, 2020 12:00 am","modified":"Updated on October 7, 2025 9:37 am"},"featured_img_caption":"Tarleton State University entrance with flags and flowers.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26405","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=26405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54144,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26405\/revisions\/54144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}