Michael Crook
Director - Center For Student Advocacy And Community at University of Houston
Auckland, Auckland, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Crook is a committed DEI leader and community-builder with 11 years of experience designing and scaling inclusive programs across higher education. As Director of the Center for Student Advocacy and Community at the University of Houston, he blends strategic planning, assessment-driven program design, and hands-on facilitation to boost engagement and retention for diverse student populations. He’s Gallup-Certified in Strengths and a qualified IDI administrator, bringing a strengths-based, evidence-informed approach to intercultural competence and organizational change. Michael has a track record of rebranding campus initiatives, revamping signature events to record attendance, and rebuilding cross-campus partnerships to expand reach. Comfortable leading teams, crisis response, and large-budget student operations, he pairs practical operational skills with a deep commitment to belonging and social justice. Notably, his background includes global experiential education work coordinating interdisciplinary learning aboard Semester at Sea, reflecting a capacity to design learning in complex, multicultural settings.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Speech and Communication, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Speech and Communication at Colorado State UniversityMaster of Arts (M.A.) Student Affairs Administration, Master of Arts (M.A.) Student Affairs Administration at Michigan State University
English
Github Skills (58)
dotnet8
mass7
csharp7
asp-net-core7
linux7
asp-net7
azure6
dotnet-core6
windows6
terraform6
terraform-provider5
cross-platform5
azure-resource-manager4
dataannotations4
chartjs-plugin4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
crookm/blog
Aug 2022 - Mar 2025
My web sight :-)
Contributions:12 PRs, 82 pushes in 2 years 7 months
my-blog
interflare/interflare-site
Sep 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:6 PRs, 61 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 7 months
minecraftminecraft-website
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