{"id":30638,"date":"2016-05-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-to-award-1350-diplomas-at-three-days-of-commencement-ceremonies\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T10:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T15:23:12","slug":"tarleton-to-award-1350-diplomas-at-three-days-of-commencement-ceremonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-to-award-1350-diplomas-at-three-days-of-commencement-ceremonies\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarleton to award 1,350 diplomas at three days of commencement ceremonies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/11\/image-2226.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/11\/image-2226-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"Tarleton State University''s Spring Commencement\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tarleton State University\u201ds Spring Commencement<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br>Tuesday, May 3, 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>STEPHENVILLE, Texas\u2014Tarleton State University will award more than 1,350 diplomas this weekend during three days of commencement ceremonies in Wisdom Gym on its Stephenville campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tarleton President F. Dominic Dottavio will preside as 1,163 bachelor\u2019s, 180 master\u2019s and 11 doctoral degrees are awarded during seven ceremonies, beginning with the master\u2019s degree and doctoral degree recipients from the College of Graduate Studies at 7 p.m. Friday, May 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To accommodate the increased number of guests expected on campus for Tarleton\u2019s spring commencement ceremonies, the university will provide free golf cart shuttles in lots P-16, P-17 and P-30. A shuttle pick-up and drop-off will be located in front of Wisdom Gym\u2019s south-facing doors to ferry guests who need assistance to and from their vehicles. Additional handicap parking adjacent to Wisdom Gym also is available for this weekend\u2019s ceremonies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rome Street will be closed to through traffic due to the expected high volume of pedestrians accessing Wisdom Gym for commencement. Visitors still can enter campus from Frey Street; however, Rome Street will be closed from the entrance to Lot P-26 (Nursing Building) south toward the Sloan Street intersection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dates and times for the commencement ceremonies are:<br><strong>Friday, May 6<br><\/strong>7 p.m.<br>College of Graduate Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saturday, May 7<br><\/strong>10 a.m.<br>College of Business Administration<br>(<em>Department of Management only<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 p.m.<br>College of Business Administration<br>(<em>Department of Accounting, Finance &amp; Economics; General Studies;&nbsp;<\/em><em>and Department of Marketing &amp; Computer Information Systems)<br><\/em>College of Science &amp; Technology<br>(<em>Department of Social Work only<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 p.m.<br>College of Science &amp; Technology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 p.m.<br>College of Liberal &amp; Fine Arts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sunday, May 8<br><\/strong>1 p.m.<br>College of Agricultural &amp; Environmental Sciences<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 p.m.<br>College of Education<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For directions to Wisdom Gym and maps of the Stephenville campus, including available parking lots, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/campus\">www.tarleton.edu\/campus<\/a>. More information about Tarleton\u2019s upcoming commencement ceremonies is online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/graduation\">www.tarleton.edu\/graduation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To view a live video-stream of commencement ceremonies, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\">www.tarleton.edu<\/a>. Look for specific link information prior to the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\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\u2019s 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\n\n\n<p>#<\/p>\n\n\n\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>Tarleton State University will award more than 1,350 diplomas this weekend during three days of commencement ceremonies in Wisdom Gym on its Stephenville campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30641,"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-30638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-research","category-campus-community"],"acf":{"image":false},"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-2227-300x200.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 May 3, 2016","modified":"Updated on October 7, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on May 3, 2016 12:00 am","modified":"Updated on October 7, 2025 10:23 am"},"featured_img_caption":"Graduate facing Tarleton State University logo on screen.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30638","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=30638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54424,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30638\/revisions\/54424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}