{"id":26987,"date":"2019-08-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-campuses-close-to-observe-labor-day\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T09:55:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T14:55:17","slug":"tarleton-campuses-close-to-observe-labor-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-campuses-close-to-observe-labor-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarleton campuses close to observe Labor Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, August 27, 2019<\/p>\n<p>STEPHENVILLE, Texas &mdash;&nbsp;In observance of Labor Day, all Tarleton State University administrative offices are closed and classes dismissed Monday, Sept. 2.<\/p>\n<p>All Tarleton campus locations resume normal operating hours Tuesday, Sept. 3.<\/p>\n<p>The Dick Smith Library,&nbsp;Student Health and Counseling Center, Tarleton Alumni Association offices and the university&rsquo;s Welcome Center also will close in observance of the Memorial Day holiday.<\/p>\n<p>The Rickett Library on the Fort Worth campus, Tarleton&rsquo;s W.K. Gordon Center for Industrial History of Texas in Thurber and the Dora Lee Langdon Cultural &amp; Educational Center in Granbury also will close.<\/p>\n<p>The university&rsquo;s Recreational Sports Center will operate on a modified schedule, 4-11 p.m. Labor Day, and will resume normal hours on Sept. 3.<\/p>\n<p>If you have an emergency on campus during the holiday, contact the University Police Department at 254-968-9265 or dial 911.<\/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>In observance of Labor Day, all Tarleton State University administrative offices are closed and classes dismissed Monday, Sept. 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26988,"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":[424,425],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-events","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-656-300x200.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/category\/arts-events\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Arts &amp; Events<\/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\">Arts &amp; Events<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Campus &amp; Community<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 7 years ago","modified":"Updated 6 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on August 27, 2019","modified":"Updated on October 7, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on August 27, 2019 12:00 am","modified":"Updated on October 7, 2025 9:55 am"},"featured_img_caption":"\"Labor Day\" text with a red star and stripes.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26987","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=26987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54339,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26987\/revisions\/54339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}