{"id":29057,"date":"2017-10-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-waco-hosts-open-house-for-prospective-graduate-students\/"},"modified":"2021-11-12T02:08:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T02:08:15","slug":"tarleton-waco-hosts-open-house-for-prospective-graduate-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-waco-hosts-open-house-for-prospective-graduate-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarleton-Waco hosts open house for prospective graduate students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE <br \/>Monday, October 30, 2017<\/p>\n<p>WACO, Texas&mdash;Find out more about Tarleton State University&rsquo;s graduate-level degree programs in Waco on Saturday, Nov. 11, at an open house for prospective students.<\/p>\n<p>The open house is set from 8:30 a.m. to noon at Tarleton-Waco&rsquo;s campus in the Michaelis Academic Center at McLennan Community College, 1400 College Drive. Prospective students should RSVP www.tarleton.edu\/waco-open-house.<\/p>\n<p>Meet faculty, staff and current students as well as learn about the university&rsquo;s graduate school admissions process and best practices for financing a graduate school education. 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 business administration, clinical mental health counseling, criminal justice, curriculum and instruction, educational administration, human resources and social work.<\/p>\n<p>The university&rsquo;s doctorate of education (Ed.D.) program combines individualized study with specialized course work and research.<\/p>\n<p>Tarleton offers day, evening and weekend classes, along with a fully online Global Campus with 20 e-learning programs.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Tarleton-Waco&rsquo;s graduate-level degree programs, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/graduate\">www.tarleton.edu\/graduate\/<\/a> or email Dr. Mweni Ekpo, graduate recruiter, at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:ekpo@tarleton.edu\">ekpo@tarleton.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the university&rsquo;s online programs, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/globalcampus\">www.tarleton.edu\/globalcampus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tarleton, celebrating 100 years as a founding member of The Texas A&amp;M University System, provides a student-focused, value-driven educational experience marked by academic innovation and exemplary service, and dedicated to transforming students into tomorrow&rsquo;s professional leaders. As a member of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) with campuses in Stephenville, Fort Worth, Waco, Midlothian and online, Tarleton engages with its communities to provide real-world learning experiences and to address societal needs while maintaining its core values of tradition, integrity, civility, leadership, excellence and service.<\/p>\n<p>#<\/p>\n<p>Contact:&nbsp;Dr. Mweni Ekpo, Graduate Recruiter<br \/>817-484-4411<br \/><a href=\"mailto:priddle@tarleton.edu\">ekpo@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. 11, at an open house for prospective students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[438],"class_list":["post-29057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-research","tag-college-of-graduate-studies"],"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-1521-300x200.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>"]},"tags":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/category\/academics-research\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">College of Graduate Studies<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">College of Graduate Studies<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 8 years ago","modified":"Updated 4 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on October 30, 2017","modified":"Updated on November 12, 2021"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on October 30, 2017 12:00 am","modified":"Updated on November 12, 2021 2:08 am"},"featured_img_caption":"Woman in a Tarleton State University shirt sits near students walking on campus.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29057","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=29057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}