SEMO hires new dean of students

Southeast Missouri State University has hired a former administrator at Jefferson College in Hillsboro, Mo., as its new dean of students.

The board of regents approved the appointment of Dr. Larry Baker of Murphy, N.C., during a closed session Friday.

Baker was selected after a national search, school officials said. He will begin his new duties June 18.

He replaces Dr. Irene Ferguson, who resigned last year to accept a position at the College of Notre Dame in Maryland.

Trent Ball, assistant dean of students and director of minority student programs at Southeast, has served as interim dean this school year.

Baker served as senior student affairs officer and adviser to the president regarding student issues at Jefferson College from 1994 to 2003.

He owns Tri-State Sleep Study Laboratory in North Carolina.