{"id":9310,"date":"2016-04-26T11:58:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T15:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=9310"},"modified":"2016-04-26T11:58:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T15:58:10","slug":"wedgeworth-59-career-highlighted-on-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2016\/04\/26\/wedgeworth-59-career-highlighted-on-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedgeworth \u201959 career highlighted on the air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2016\/04\/26\/wedgeworth-59-career-highlighted-on-the-air\/robert-wedgeworth-660\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9311\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9311\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/04\/Robert-wedgeworth-660.png\" alt=\"Robert wedgeworth-660\" width=\"437\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/04\/Robert-wedgeworth-660.png 660w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/04\/Robert-wedgeworth-660-300x164.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/a>Dr. Robert Wedgeworth, Jr. PhD \u201959<\/strong> was a featured short bio online and on Monday&#8217;s <em>Tom Joyner Morning Show<\/em> &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/blackamericaweb.com\/2016\/04\/25\/little-known-black-history-fact-dr-robert-wedgeworth\/#.Vx4Dk6mGuVo.email\">click here<\/a> to read the transcript and listen to the audio.<\/p>\n<p>After Wabash, Bob\u2019s career progressed as executive director of the American Library Association,\u00a0Columbia University\u2019s dean of\u00a0School of Library Service, university librarian and professor of library administration at the University of Illinois, president of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, president of Laubach Literacy International, and president and CEO of the merged organization, Proliteracy Worldwide.\u00a0 He earned an M.S. in Library and Information Science at the University Illinois. He left a doctoral program in library science at Rutgers University in 1972, to pursue what became his renowned career in library science, without completing his dissertation.\u00a0 In December 2012, Bob successfully defended\u00a0that dissertation, and in May 2013 graduated with his doctorate degree.<\/p>\n<p>Bob is a Wabash College Trustee Emeritus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Robert Wedgeworth, Jr. PhD \u201959 was a featured short bio online and on Monday&#8217;s Tom Joyner Morning Show &#8212; click here to read the transcript and listen to the audio. After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/04\/Robert-wedgeworth-660.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9310"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9316,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9310\/revisions\/9316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}