The Les Aspin Center for Government, or simply the Les Aspin Center or "LAC" is an educational program and extension of Marquette University based in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C., with a separate office at Marquette's home campus in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The Les Aspin Center's permanent building in D.C. hosts students for semester or summer classes while they also complete internships in various government sectors.

Designed initially to offer current undergraduate students interested in public policy an avenue for earning summer internship experience in Washington, the LAC has since acquired property in the city for classroom and living space, and it has evolved into a semester-long political science program offering classes on both foreign and domestic public policy.

The Center also bestows awards on public officials who have supported its mission or directly impacted the program.

[3] Past honorees include congressmen Daniel Inouye and Dave Obey, ambassador Richard Holbrooke, senator Dick Durbin, former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson and insurance company Northwestern Mutual.