{"id":47105,"date":"2022-09-08T13:54:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T18:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tarleton.edu\/news\/?p=47105"},"modified":"2022-09-08T15:42:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T20:42:42","slug":"tarletons-tallach-earns-top-tahperd-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarletons-tallach-earns-top-tahperd-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarleton\u2019s Tallach Earns Top TAHPERD Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

STEPHENVILLE, Texas \u2014 Tarleton State University Professor Dr. Tom Tallach has received the College Administrator of the Year Award <\/strong>from the Texas Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (TAHPERD).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his five years as head of the Department of Sport Science in the School of Kinesiology, the department has achieved record enrollment and assembled a strong faculty. He developed the BS in sport management degree and the BAAS in kinesiology and has led the expansion of departmental programming to Tarleton-Fort Worth and the Texas A&M System\u2019s RELLIS Academic Alliance in Bryan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His contributions to education include coaching intercollegiate basketball, college teaching, intercollegiate athletics administration, secondary education administration and college academic administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An advocate for experiential learning, he has helped incorporate applied learning throughout the curricula. Earlier this year, he was awarded a $250,000 grant from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board that provided direct financial support to Tarleton students completing internships in the community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Tallach has served as Chair of the Sport Management Section of TAHPERD\u2019s College Committee and is a regular presenter at the organization\u2019s conventions and summer conferences. He has been a TAHPERD member for nearly 30 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Texas Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, founded in 1923, is a not-for-profit professional organization of individuals in those allied fields. More than 3,100 professional and student members serve the teaching profession in early childhood environments through college. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

STEPHENVILLE, Texas \u2014 Tarleton State University Professor Dr. Tom Tallach has received the College Administrator of the Year Award from the Texas Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (TAHPERD).   In his …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":47109,"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":[382,423,427],"tags":[437,439],"class_list":["post-47105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-academics-research","category-science-health","tag-college-of-education","tag-division-of-health-sciences"],"acf":{"image":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"priddle","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/author\/priddle-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2022\/09\/Tallach-Thomas_Thumb-300x199.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["_Homepage<\/a>","Academics & Research<\/a>","Science & Health<\/a>"],"unlinked":["_Homepage<\/span>","Academics & Research<\/span>","Science & Health<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["College of Education<\/a>","Division of Health Sciences<\/a>"],"unlinked":["College of Education<\/span>","Division of Health Sciences<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 4 years ago","modified":"Updated 4 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on September 8, 2022","modified":"Updated on September 8, 2022"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on September 8, 2022 1:54 pm","modified":"Updated on September 8, 2022 3:42 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"Man smiling in a purple shirt against a dark background.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47105","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\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}