Wes has served in a variety of roles within higher education, but his primary focus has always been on helping students maximize their opportunities while in college. He is especially interested in student success, undergraduate research, higher education finance, and internationalization. Outside of work, Wes enjoys traveling, cooking, and spending time with his wife Sarah.
Office: KAML 209, 416 Library Drive, Duluth, MN 55812
Education:
B.S. in History, Northwest Missouri State University
M.A. in Student Affairs Administration, Michigan State University
Ed.D. in Educational Leadership in Higher Education, University of Central Florida
Recommendations:
A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education by David F. Labaree
Groupthink by Irving Janis
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang
The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph Henrich
- The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
