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SPECIAL PLACES World-class institution. World-class facilities.
From its iconic gates in Stephenville to a distinctly urban Fort Worth campus, Tarleton State University is inspired by the power of special places. Great learning requires them. Great students and faculty demand them. Places that build engagement and create impact.
And while COVID-19 may have changed the way those places were used in 2020, it didn’t deter Tarleton from renovating some and constructing more. A $54 million state-of-the-art School of Engineering Building — and soon-to-be college — is a testament to Tarleton’s commitment to bolster the regional economy and address professional workforce needs. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of engineers is projected to grow 4 percent over the next few years, adding 65,000 jobs nationwide. A number of corporate and business partners provide Tarleton engineering students practitioner-based learning their senior year, and those Texans are in especially high demand. One of those supporters, Bartlett Cocke General Contractors, helped outfit the School of Engineering with a cutting-edge CAD classroom. Expanded lab space at Tarleton’s Agriculture Center, fondly called the college farm, is increasing program options and student participation in faculty-directed research. With agriculture’s annual economic impact topping $115 million in Texas and one out of seven workers employed in an agriculture-related job, more room at Tarleton makes perfect sense.
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