{"id":35014,"date":"2026-09-28T09:11:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T13:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/?p=35014"},"modified":"2026-09-28T09:11:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T13:11:58","slug":"samantha-l-kahlers-dissertation-defense-scheduled-for-october-2nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/28\/samantha-l-kahlers-dissertation-defense-scheduled-for-october-2nd\/","title":{"rendered":"Samantha L. Kahler&#8217;s Dissertation Defense Scheduled for October 2nd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Doctor of Education (EdD.) Dissertation Defense<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Karim Medico, Chair of the Doctoral Department, announces the defense of the dissertation entitled <strong>Reading Specialists&#8217; Use of Universal Literacy Screening Data to Inform K-2 Instruction: A Qualitative Case Study<\/strong> by doctoral candidate <strong>Samantha L. Kahler.<\/strong> 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, October 2nd at 3:00 p.m. (EDT).\u00a0\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>Doctor of Education (EdD.) Dissertation Defense Dr. Karim Medico, Chair of the Doctoral Department, announces the defense of the dissertation entitled Reading Specialists&#8217; Use of Universal Literacy Screening Data to Inform K-2 Instruction: A Qualitative Case Study by doctoral candidate Samantha L. Kahler. The presentation portion of the defense will be open to observers and&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/28\/samantha-l-kahlers-dissertation-defense-scheduled-for-october-2nd\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Samantha L. Kahler&#8217;s Dissertation Defense Scheduled for October 2nd<\/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-35014","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\/35014","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=35014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35045,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35014\/revisions\/35045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}