Les P. Cook
Chancellor, Montana Technological University
NASPA Foundation Board Chair
The NASPA Foundation Board has been volunteer driven since its inception in 1973. Board members volunteer their time to serve as ambassadors, solicit gifts, provide strategic oversight, and support foundation programs such as Pillars of the Profession and Channing Briggs Small Grants. Additionally, each NASPA Foundation Board Member commits to joining the Diamond Club and assuming travel and lodging costs for foundation board meetings.
NASPA Foundation Board Member Expectations
Interested in Serving as Foundation Board Member?
The Foundation Board is always seeking nominations for those interested in supporting the fundraising work of the NASPA Foundation. To learn more about becoming a Board member and the application process, please contact the Foundation Board Chair Les Cook or Foundation Board Chair-Elect, Maureen Keefe.
It’s hard to explain the pride I feel when I meet a graduate student, attending the NASPA Annual Conference with the help of a Rhatigan Fellowship – I know I’m face to face with the future of our profession. If you have the opportunity to review the research proposals we receive, you will be impressed at the academic discourse of our colleagues – you will want to fund them all! For all of these reasons and more, I am so proud to support the NASPA Foundation – with gifts of my time and my treasure. If you’ve already joined our ranks – thank you and good work! If you are not yet a donor – come join us! Together, we can change lives.
2018 - 2020 | Dr. Bette Simmons, County College of Morris | 2016 - 2018 | Dr. Eugene L. Zdziarski, II, DePaul University |
2014-2016 | Dr. Frank Ardaiolo, Winthrop University, (Retired) | 2012-2014 | Dr. Cherry Callahan, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, (Retired) |
2010-2012 | Dr. Barb Snyder, University of Utah, (Retired) | 2008-2010 | Dr. Almeda Jacks, Clemson University |
2006-2008 | Dr. Ed Whipple, Bowling Green State University, (Retired) | 2004-2006 | Ms. Susan Batchelor Adams, Texas Christian University, (Retired) |
2002-2004 | Dr. Doris Ching, University of Hawaii, (Retired) | 2000-2002 | Dr. Margaret Barr, Northwestern University, (Deceased) |
1998-2000 | Dr. William Thomas, (Deceased) | 1996-1998 | Dr. David Ambler, University of Kansas, (Retired) |
1993-1996 | Ms. Judith Chambers, University of the Pacific, (Retired) | 1992-1993 | Dr. Dudley Woodard, University of Arizona, (Retired) |
1991-1992 | Dr. Richard Correnti, Florida International University, (Retired) | 1989-1990 | Dr. Larry Ebbers, Iowa State University, (Retired) |
1988-1989 | Dr. Tom Goodale, Sigma Alpha Epsilon | 1987-1988 | Ms. Judith Chambers, University of the Pacific, (Retired) |
1986-1987 | Dr. Robert Leach, (Deceased) | 1985-1986 | Dr. Richard Correnti, Florida International University, (Retired) |
1984-1985 | Dr. Edward Hammond, Fort Hays State University, (Retired) | 1983-1984 | Dr. Mikell O'Donnell, Ohio State University, (Retired) |
1977-1983 | Dr. Channing Briggs, (Deceased) | 1976-1977 | Dr. Jim Rhatigan, Wichita State University, (Retired) |
1975-1976 | Dr. James Appleton, University of Redlands, (Retired) | 1973-1975 | Dr. John Blackburn, Blackburn Educational Technologies, (Deceased) |