{"id":33795,"date":"2026-07-21T09:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/?p=33795"},"modified":"2026-07-21T09:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:30:07","slug":"michael-a-frels-dissertation-defense-scheduled-for-july-24th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/michael-a-frels-dissertation-defense-scheduled-for-july-24th\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael A. Frel&#8217;s Dissertation Defense Scheduled for July 24th"},"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 <em>Cultivating the Undivided Self: Sustained Mindfulness and PK-12 Teacher Identity <\/em>by doctoral candidate Michael A. Frel&#8217;s. 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 Friday, July 24th at 3:00 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 Cultivating the Undivided Self: Sustained Mindfulness and PK-12 Teacher Identity by doctoral candidate Michael A. Frel&#8217;s. The presentation portion of the defense will be open to observers and&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/michael-a-frels-dissertation-defense-scheduled-for-july-24th\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Michael A. Frel&#8217;s Dissertation Defense Scheduled for July 24th<\/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-33795","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\/33795","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=33795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33796,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33795\/revisions\/33796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}