ALL ABOUT MENTORINGA PUBLICATION OF EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE Issue 34 • Fall 2008 ALL ABOUT MENTORING Issue 34 • Fall 2008 Two Union Avenue Saratoga Springs, NY 12866-4390 518 587-2100 www.esc.edu For Morris Keeton At our 1984 All College Meeting, Empire State College honored Dr. Morris Keeton ALL ABOUT with a Doctor of Humane Letters. The citation concluded: “While some teachers saw the classroom as their world, you saw the world as a classroom. Today experiential learning extends richer educational opportunities to people of all ages MENTORING and backgrounds because you perceived the promise in such learning and worked to ISSUE 34 see it fulfilled.” FALL 2008 Keeton, the founding president of CAEL (now The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning), spent 30 years at Antioch College and, in the 1990s, was Alan Mandell College Professor of Adult Learning senior scholar at the Institute for Research and Assessment in Higher Education and Mentoring at University of Maryland University College. He is the author of many books Editor (including Learning from Experience, 1987; Employability in a High-Performance
[email protected] Economy [with Sheckley and Lamdin], 1992; and Effectiveness and Efficiency in Higher Education for Adults [with Sheckley and Griggs], 2002). In all of these Kirk Starczewski Director of College Relations writings and in an extraordinary professional life, Keeton has continued to push Publisher us to grapple with the most basic questions about who can learn, where and when
[email protected] learning takes place, and (as he put it) “What is a college education? What for?” Gael Fischer In this issue of All About Mentoring, now a quarter-century after his honorary Director of Publications doctorate was awarded, we return to some of the themes, questions and problems Designer that Morris Keeton has encouraged us to take on, especially those related to college Hope Ferguson credit for experiential learning.