national association of personal historians

2005 International representation reaches 30 members.

1999 Doris Ching is the first female ethnic-minority elected NASPA President.1996 Institutes and Symposiums provided new professional development opportunities for members.1989 NASPA Undergraduate Fellows Program founded.1989 NASPA Networks formed, would later become the current Knowledge Communities.Leach is the first ethnic-minority elected NASPA President. 1976 Alice Manicur is the first female elected NASPA President.1975 Channing Briggs named first Executive Director of NASPA.1967 First permanent NASPA office is created in Detroit, MI.1951 NADAM is renamed the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA.).1929 CDAM is renamed the National Association of Deans and Advisers of Men (NADAM.).1919 NASPA, then known as the Conference of Deans and Advisers of Men, is founded.1918 First meeting of the founding members occurred in Fall 1918 to discuss establishing a group to support student personnel at colleges and universities.We invite you to explore the complete history of NASPA at. This successful first meeting would spawn an annual gathering of deans. What would eventually become known as NASPA was originally dreamt up by Dean Robert Rienow and Dean Thomas Arkle Clark in December 1918 and founded in January 1919 as the “Conference of Deans and Advisers of Men.” Dean Scott Goodnight hosted the meeting at the University of Wisconsin and would be retroactively named NASPA’s first president. Founded in 1918 by six men at the University of Wisconsin, NASPA has grown to become a diverse international organization with over 15,000 members in all 50 states, 25 countries, and in 8 U.S.

National association of personal historians