FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Monday, April 4, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n
STEPHENVILLE, Texas \u2014 Tarleton State University\u2019s College of Business has been approved by Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc., to provide a new financial planning concentration for its BBA in finance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cCFP Board is pleased to approve the program at Tarleton State University\u2019s College of Business as a CFP Board registered program,\u201d said Kamila Elliott, CFP\u00ae, chair of CFP Board\u2019s Board of Directors. \u201cAs student interest in financial planning as a career continues to grow, we anticipate that Tarleton\u2019s program will contribute significantly to the number of qualified candidates seeking to attain CFP\u00ae certification.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
CFP Board is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that grants, upholds and promotes the Certified Financial Planning certification. CFP Board oversees more than 300 programs at more than 200 U.S. colleges and universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Students completing the financial planning program at Tarleton will meet the coursework requirement for certification and be eligible to sit for the exam administered by CFP Board. More than 90,000 people in the United States hold CFP\u00ae certification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOur new CFP concentration represents an exciting opportunity to help prepare our students to sit for the CFP certification right out of school. This helps to make our graduates stand out even more from the competition and sets them up for a rewarding career in finance,\u201d said finance Associate Professor Dr. Omar Esqueda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For more information, contact Dr. Esqueda at esqueda@tarleton.edu<\/a>, 254-968-9908, or Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc., 202-379-2200, mail@cfpboard.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tarleton State University\u2019s College of Business has been approved by Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc., to provide a new financial planning concentration for its BBA in finance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45889,"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":[382,423],"tags":[447],"class_list":["post-45887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-academics-research","tag-dr-sam-pack-college-of-business"],"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\/2022\/04\/7029-1-300x200.jpeg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["_Homepage<\/a>","Academics & Research<\/a>"],"unlinked":["_Homepage<\/span>","Academics & Research<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["Dr. Sam Pack College of Business<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Dr. Sam Pack College of Business<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 4 years ago","modified":"Updated 4 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on April 4, 2022","modified":"Updated on April 28, 2022"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on April 4, 2022 1:43 pm","modified":"Updated on April 28, 2022 1:43 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"Tarleton State University entrance with flags and flowers.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45887","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=45887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}