Student Affairs VP elected to leadership position

Edward Whipple

Edward Whipple, vice president for student affairs, has also been named vice president of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) Foundation Board of Directors.

Whipple began the three-year term March 30, at the conclusion of the annual NASPA meeting in Denver. A member since 1981, he has served on the organization’s foundation board for the past three years and was elected vice president by his fellow board members.

“Your commitment to the profession is an inspiration to all of your colleagues,” Doris Ching, president of the NASPA Foundation Board of Directors, wrote to Whipple on his election.

NASPA is a leading voice for student affairs administration, policy and practice. With upward of 8,000 individual members and more than 1,175 member campuses, NASPA's leadership is provided by volunteers from member institutions who are elected as regional and national officers.

Since 1994, Whipple has been vice president for student affairs at BGSU, where he is also an adjunct associate professor of higher education and student affairs. He has been a member of the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges since 1993 and was elected to the National Association of State and Land Grant Colleges Student Affairs Council Executive Committee in 2003.

Whipple received his Ph.D. in college student services administration from Oregon State University in 1981. He earned a master’s degree in English education from Northwestern University in 1975, and a bachelor’s degree in English from Willamette University in 1974. He also attended a management development program at Harvard University in 1988, and has done extensive study in the French language.

Before coming to Bowling Green, he was vice chancellor for student affairs at Montana State University from 1989-94, director of student life and dean of students at the University of Alabama from 1985-89, and associate dean of students at Texas Tech University from 1982-85.