{"id":17917,"date":"2023-05-10T08:54:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T08:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/?p=17917"},"modified":"2023-05-10T08:54:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T08:54:52","slug":"grace-cheshire-earns-her-doctorate-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/blog\/2023\/05\/10\/grace-cheshire-earns-her-doctorate-of-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace Cheshire Earns her Doctorate of Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grace Cheshire successfully defended her disquisition on March 2, 2023, and will graduate with a Doctorate of Education (Ed.D.) in educational leadership with a concentration in community college leadership on May 12.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moreover, Cheshire was a doctoral student at WCU before she joined the faculty in the communication department in 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe had a joke in my family because my sister and her children all attended WCU that they finally got me in the end, too,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Cheshire, she wanted to pursue an Ed.D. because it opens doors to research and networking opportunities and gives her enhanced credibility as a subject matter expert.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe doctoral experience gave me the chance to learn a lot about systemic injustice, equity, and leadership, as well as what I find fulfilling in my career,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lastly, Cheshire has been selected to give the commencement address for the graduate school ceremony on May 12.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace Cheshire successfully defended her disquisition on March 2, 2023, and will graduate with a Doctorate of Education (Ed.D.) in educational leadership with a concentration in community college leadership on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3297,"featured_media":17918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[329,103,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-department-news","category-faculty-focus","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17920,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17917\/revisions\/17920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}