Les Cook Named Regional Vice President of NASPA

Les Cook, vice president for student affairs at Michigan Technological University, was recently voted vice president of Region IV-East of NASPA.

NASPA ( http://www.naspa.org/ ), the association for student affairs administrators in higher education, has over 11,000 members at 1,400 campuses worldwide. Its aim is to help ensure student success at its member institutions.

NASPA Region IV-East includes Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin and Ontario.

As a regional vice president, Cook will sit on NASPA's board of directors. His three-year term will begin in March 2009.

Michigan Technological University is a public research university founded in 1885 in Houghton, Michigan, and is home to more than 7,000 students from 55 countries around the world. Consistently ranked among the best universities in the country for return on investment, Michigan’s flagship technological university offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, engineering, computing, forestry, business and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, social sciences, and the arts. The rural campus is situated just miles from Lake Superior in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, offering year-round opportunities for outdoor adventure.