{"id":31398,"date":"2026-03-27T09:19:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/?p=31398"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:19:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:19:24","slug":"mary-e-balavage-simmons-dissertation-defense-scheduled-for-april-8th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/mary-e-balavage-simmons-dissertation-defense-scheduled-for-april-8th\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary E. Balavage Simmons Dissertation Defense Scheduled for April 8th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Doctorate of Education (EdD.) Dissertation\u00a0Defense<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Dean of the College of Health &amp; Education and Chair of the Doctoral Department announce the defense of the dissertation entitled The Relationship Between Sense of Belonging and First-Year Business Student Retention by doctoral candidate Mary E. Balavage Simmons. The presentation portion of the defense will be open to observers and students from the College of Health &amp; Education, University faculty, and those invited by the candidate. It will be held remotely on Wednesday, April 8th at 1:00 p.m. (EDT). \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">To request the meeting link, please contact Pam Koslosky by email at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:pamela.koslosky@wilkes.edu\">pamela.koslosky@wilkes.edu<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctorate of Education (EdD.) Dissertation\u00a0Defense The Dean of the College of Health &amp; Education and Chair of the Doctoral Department announce the defense of the dissertation entitled The Relationship Between Sense of Belonging and First-Year Business Student Retention by doctoral candidate Mary E. Balavage Simmons. The presentation portion of the defense will be open to&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/mary-e-balavage-simmons-dissertation-defense-scheduled-for-april-8th\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mary E. Balavage Simmons Dissertation Defense Scheduled for April 8th<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31447,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31398\/revisions\/31447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}