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AEE Accreditation Council

The AEE Accreditation Council consists of volunteers that are experts in the field of adventure education. Each member of the council brings specific skills to the table and most members on the council serve as liaisons to the accredited programs. For more information on the AEE Accreditation Council click here

The 2010 Accreditation Council

Steve Pace, M.S.W. - Chair 
Prescott College
220 Grove Avenue
Prescott, Arizona 86301
space@prescott.edu
Phone: (928) 350-2243
www.prescott.edu
Term Expires: 12/31/2010 

Steven has been a faculty member at Prescott College since 1991 were he has served as Chair of both the Adventure Education Program and the Human Development and Psychology Program.  He is currently serving as the faculty representative and secretary of their Board of Trustees.  Steven’s areas of expertise include outdoor program administration, and risk management, interpersonal and group communication, mediation and conflict resolution, and therapeutic use of adventure education.  Steven attended his first Association for Experiential Education conference in 1979. He has held numerous volunteer positions within the association including two terms on the Board of Directors, one of which as President, and one term on the Accreditation Council.  Steven’s roots are in adventure education. He was an instructor, course director and program director during his 11 years at the Voyaguer Outward Bound School.

Randy Judycki - Chair Elect
The Dunn School
P.O. Box 98
Los Olivos, CA  93441
USA
E-Mail: rjudycki@dunnschool.org 
Phone: (805) 688-6471
Term Expires: 12/31/2010

Randy Judycki is the Director of The Outdoor Education program at Dunn School in Los Olivos CA. Randy is also a certified American Mountain Guide Association Rock Guide and a certified American Canoe Association Advanced Whitewater Kayak Instructor. Randy has been in the field of outdoor education for 30 years as a field instructor and the Director of the Dunn School program. Randy sits on the AEE accreditation council and is a Rock guide for the Colorado Mountain School in the summer.

John (Jed) Williamson - Secretary
7 River Ridge Road
Hanover, NH  03755
jedwmsn@mac.com
Phone:
Term Expires: 12/31/2010

Former President of Sterling College; practitioner and consultant in education and outdoor pursuits; co-authored - Manual of Accreditation Standards for Adventure Programs;  former faculty member  and director of Live, Learn, and Teach,” experiential M.Ed. program - University of New Hampshire; former instructor, program director for Outward Bound;  served on boards of the American Alpine Club, NOLS, SCA, and AEE; member of Wilderness Risk Managers Committee.

Mark Ames
Red Top Meadows
P.O. Box 290
Wilson, WY 83014
USA
E-mail:
markames@wyoming.com 
Phone: (307) 733-9098
Web site:
www.redtopmeadows.org 
Term Expires: 12/31/2011

Mark is the Program Director for Red Top Meadows, a residential /wilderness therapy program in Wilson, Wyoming. Red Top has been accredited by AEE since 1999. Mark started the RTM wilderness program in 1982 after graduating from the University of Oregon with a degree in Outdoor Education.  Mark has 28 years of experience leading and supervising therapeutic wilderness trips with emotionally and behaviorally challenged youth. Before joining the Accreditation Council he was Chair of the Therapeutic Adventure Professional Group.

Trey Fouché
North Greenville University
PO Box 1892
Tigerville, SC 29688
USA
E-Mail:
jwfouche@yahoo.com
Phone: (864) 977-7991
 
Term expires: 12/31/2011 

Trey teaches in and chairs the Department of Outdoor Leadership at North Greenville University.  He received his M.Ed. in Outdoor Education Administration from Georgia College & State University and has worked in the experiential/adventure field for over ten years at a variety of schools and outdoor education centers. Currently, he serves as an active AEE Accreditation Reviewer and on the Executive Committee of the South Carolina Chapter of the Sierra Club. Additionally, he served on the Southeast Regional Council of AEE for many years.

Paula Leslie
Stevensville, MT 59870
Email: paula@erkisconsulting.com 
Phone: (435) 491-0289
Term expires: 12/31/2011

Gretchen Ostherr
Transition and Blank-Read Training Director
Outward Bound, Inc.
Email: gostherr@outwardbound.org
Phone: 1-866-669-2362 x2379
Term Expires: 12/31/12 

Charles (Reb) Gregg, LL.B
800 Bering Rd., Suite 100
Houston, TX 77057
U.S.A.
E-Mail:
rgregg@gregglaw.net 
Phone: (713) 982-8415
Term Expires: 12/31/2011

Charles R. (Reb) Gregg is an attorney in Houston Texas, active in outdoor recreation law.  Reb has been legal counsel to and represents a number of leading outdoor recreation and education programs and associations in the Country. Reb writes and lectures frequently and serves on the Wilderness Risk Managers Committee, the Accreditation Council of AEE and the Boards of Directors of The Student Conservation Association  and Friends of Big Bend National Park.

Paul Smith
Albany, OR  97321
USA
E-Mail: pleasantville@comcast.net
Phone: (541) 760-0132
Term Expires: 12/31/2012

Joe Austin
NOLS
Email:
joe_austin@nols.edu
Website: www.nols.edu
Phone: (307) 335-2258
Term Expires: 11/1/12

Joe Austin is the Associate Director of Admissions for the National Outdoor Leadership School. Prior to this, he worked as a field instructor for NOLS and followed his field work by spending ten years as the Field Staff Manager. Before joining NOLS in 1983, Joe worked for the Outdoor Education Center of the Houston Independent School District in Trinity, TX and was also the Chief Guide at the Maine National High Adventure Area, B.S.A.

Christopher Damboise
Director of Credentialing Services and Technical Training
Project Adventure, Inc.
701 Cabot Street
Beverly MA 01915-1027
Email:
cdamboise@pa.org

Website: www.pa.org

Phone: (978) 764-8854
Term Expires: 11/1/12

Chris is the Director of Credentialing Services and Technical Training for Project Adventure, Inc. He is also a course provider for the PCIA, Professional Climbing Instructors Association. He is the former Director of Project Adventure's Challenge Course Design and Installation department. In the field of Adventure Education for over 26 years, his other experience includes three years as owner and senior guide for Acadia Mountain Guides (an AMGA Accredited climbing school), seven years with the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School as chief climber, course director and instructor and the Atlanta Outward Bound Center as an experiential education specialist. Most of his formative years were spent as an outdoor educator with the University of Maine, Maine Bound programs. Chris holds a B.S. in Recreation and Park Management with a specialty in Environmental Interpretation.

Denise Mitten, PhD
Associate Professor
Ferris State University
Recreation, Leisure Services and Wellness
SRC 102
401 South Street
Big Rapids, MI 49307
Email: denisemitten@ferris.edu
Phone: (231) 591-5317
Term expires: 11/1/12