{"id":33496,"date":"2026-06-17T09:23:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/?p=33496"},"modified":"2026-06-17T09:23:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:23:54","slug":"rsvp-to-the-presidential-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/rsvp-to-the-presidential-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"RSVP to the Presidential Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Members of the Wilkes community are invited to attend a press conference introducing Dr. James Cousins as the University&#8217;s eighth president at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, June 25, in the E.S. Farley Library. \u00a0A reception in the library will follow the official announcement. \u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>If you are unable to attend the announcement in person, livestream coverage of the event will be available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wilkes.edu\/about-wilkes\/leadership\/presidents-office\/incoming-president.aspx\">wilkes.edu\/incomingpresident<\/a>.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><b>DATE<\/b>:\u00a0 Thursday, June 25, 2026<br \/><b>TIME<\/b>:\u00a0 10:30 a.m.\u00a0<br \/><b>LOCATION<\/b>:\u00a0 E.S. Farley Library, 1st floor &#8211; 187 South Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kindly share your attendance plans by <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLScAIyA9yRvrOP_caE9yF4AmZtVk27T3kIkkYlfZAY5rP0op8Q\/viewform?usp=header\">completing this form<\/a>. If you have any questions about the event, please email Bridget Giunta and Megan Pitts at <a href=\"mailto:events@wilkes.edu\">events@wilkes.edu<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Wilkes community are invited to attend a press conference introducing Dr. James Cousins as the University&#8217;s eighth president at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, June 25, in the E.S. Farley Library. \u00a0A reception in the library will follow the official announcement. \u00a0 \u00a0 If you are unable to attend the announcement in person,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/rsvp-to-the-presidential-announcement\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RSVP to the Presidential Announcement<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33495,"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-33496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33496","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=33496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33499,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33496\/revisions\/33499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}