{"id":30518,"date":"2016-07-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarletons-summer-commencement-set-for-aug-6\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T10:27:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T15:27:59","slug":"tarletons-summer-commencement-set-for-aug-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarletons-summer-commencement-set-for-aug-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarleton&#8217;s summer commencement set for Aug. 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br \/>Tuesday, July 19, 2016<\/p>\n<p>STEPHENVILLE, Texas&mdash;Summer commencement exercises at Tarleton State University are set for Saturday, Aug. 6, with approximately 590 graduates receiving diplomas.<\/p>\n<p>The colleges of Agricultural &amp; Environmental Sciences, Education, and Liberal &amp; Fine Arts conduct graduation ceremonies at 10 a.m. Ceremonies for the colleges of Business Administration and Science &amp; Technology take place at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The third ceremony of the day includes all candidates receiving degrees from the College of Graduate Studies at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>All programs take place in Wisdom Gymnasium in the Health and Physical Education Complex. Dr. F. Dominic Dottavio, president of Tarleton, is presiding officer for the ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>Tarleton will award 469 undergraduate, 119 graduate and two doctoral degrees during the three ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>For directions to Wisdom Gymnasium and maps of the Stephenville campus, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/campus\">www.tarleton.edu\/campus<\/a>. More information about Tarleton&rsquo;s upcoming commencement ceremonies may be found online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/graduation\">www.tarleton.edu\/graduation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All graduation proceedings will be video-streamed live online on the Tarleton website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\">www.tarleton.edu<\/a>. Specific link information will be posted prior to the event.<\/p>\n<p>Tarleton, a 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. 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 integrity, leadership, tradition, civility, excellence and service.<\/p>\n<p>#<\/p>\n<p>Contact: Kurt Mogonye<br \/>254-968-9460<br \/><a href=\"mailto:mogonye@tarleton.edu\">mogonye@tarleton.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer commencement exercises at Tarleton State University are set for Saturday, Aug. 6, with approximately 590 graduates receiving diplomas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30519,"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-30518","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-2172-300x200.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 10 years ago","modified":"Updated 6 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on July 19, 2016","modified":"Updated on October 7, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on July 19, 2016 12:00 am","modified":"Updated on October 7, 2025 10:27 am"},"featured_img_caption":"Tarleton State University logo and ceremonial mace.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30518","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=30518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54431,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30518\/revisions\/54431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}