NAPAHE serves presidential assistants (PAs) and other professionals supporting higher education leaders and strengthens our profession through programming, networking, and professional development opportunities that address the broad range of roles fulfilled by our members in service to presidential leadership and those who support higher education's senior leaders. In addition to information generally available to the public, we have a wealth of information available to our members.
Pictured Above: Members of the NAPAHE Board of Directors and various committees at the Annual Summer Planning Meeting, held June 2024 at the University of Houston in Texas.
NAPAHE Featured Testimonial
Fully half of my 38 year career at Augustana has been in the President's Office, and there's no way I would have made it this long, and with this much fulfillment, without NAPAHE. From my first conference in 2006 I developed a taste for our organization's secret sauce: useful professional development combined with essential community. NAPAHE not only helped my own development, it helped me become an ambassador for the work we do at campuses all around the world.
Even as an 'old salt,' I've turned to NAPAHE when I needed guidance on searches, transitions, and finding my role in helping make my campus a healthier community. NAPAHE continues to teach me. Best of all has been the privilege of watching younger colleagues spread their wings in this organization and go on to become thought leaders in higher education.
Kai S. Swanson
Special Assistant to the President
Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois