{"id":26782,"date":"2019-10-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-hosts-open-house-for-prospective-waco-graduate-students\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T09:49:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T14:49:05","slug":"tarleton-hosts-open-house-for-prospective-waco-graduate-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-hosts-open-house-for-prospective-waco-graduate-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarleton hosts open house for prospective Waco graduate students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n<p>Friday, October 25, 2019<\/p>\n<p>WACO, Texas &mdash; Find out more about Tarleton State University&rsquo;s graduate-level degree programs in Waco on Saturday, Nov. 2, at an open house for prospective students.<\/p>\n<p>The open house is set 8:30-10:30 a.m. at Tarleton-Waco&rsquo;s campus in the Michaelis Academic Center at McLennan Community College (1400 College Drive). Guests should RSVP at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/graduate\">www.tarleton.edu\/graduate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During the event, guests will meet faculty and staff as well as learn about the university&rsquo;s graduate school admissions process and best practices for financing a graduate school education.&nbsp;&nbsp;Application fees will be waived for attendees who apply within a week of the open house.<\/p>\n<p>Tarleton-Waco offers master&rsquo;s programs in accounting, business administration, human resources, clinical mental health counseling, criminal justice, curriculum and instruction, educational administration, and social work. The university&rsquo;s doctoral program in educational leadership (Ed.D.)&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash; available at the Waco campus &mdash; combines individualized study with specialized course work and research.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to day, evening and weekend classes, Tarleton boasts a fully online Global Campus offering 20 e-learning opportunities. For more information on Tarleton-Waco&rsquo;s graduate-level degree programs, visit&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/\">www.tarleton.edu<\/a>\/graduateor email Dr. Mweni Ekpo, graduate recruitment manager, at&nbsp;ekpo@tarleton.edu.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the university&rsquo;s online programs, go to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/globalcampus\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/globalcampus\/index.html<\/a>.<\/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&rsquo;s scholars into tomorrow&rsquo;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, News and Information Specialist<br \/>817-484-4415<br \/><a href=\"mailto:priddle@tarleton.edu\">priddle@tarleton.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find out more about Tarleton State University&rsquo;s graduate-level degree programs in Waco on Saturday, Nov. 2, at an open house for prospective students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26783,"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-26782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-research","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\/2021\/11\/image-589-300x200.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 6 years ago","modified":"Updated 6 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on October 25, 2019","modified":"Updated on October 7, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on October 25, 2019 12:00 am","modified":"Updated on October 7, 2025 9:49 am"},"featured_img_caption":"Student in a Tarleton State University shirt sits on a campus bench.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26782","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=26782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54270,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26782\/revisions\/54270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}