- Board Member Bios
- AEE Policy Register
- Meeting Minutes
- The Carver Governance Model
- To whom should you direct your question? (Board? CEO? Staff?)
- Information on the Touch the Future Campaign
- Thinking About Becoming a Member of the Board of Directors?
Meet the AEE Board of Directors
Two newly elected AEE Board members took office in November!
Congratulations to Mary Pat Sullivan (Member-at Large) and Mike King (Treasurer-Elect) on their election to the AEE Board of Directors!
Thank you also to the other candidates for their willingness to serve and to the AEE members who took the time to vote.
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Laurie Frank, President |
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| Laurie Frank is a former public school teacher who has worked in the adventure and experiential education arenas for 25 years. Laurie is the owner/director of GOAL Consulting, working with school districts, camps, and non-profit organizations around the country to create environments where students, faculty, staff, and families are invited into the educational process. She is committed to playing her small part in school transformation, and looks forward to the day when “No Child Left Behind” is a distant memory. When not doing that, she roots for the Green Bay Packers. | |
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Steve Pace, M.S.W., Past President |
| 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. 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 secretary of their Board of Trustees. Steven’s areas of expertise include interpersonal and group communication, mediation and conflict resolution, therapeutic use of adventure education, as well as outdoor program administration, and risk management. | |
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Rob Rubendall, Treasurer |
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| Rob Rubendall grew up in rural Pennsylvania and attended a small, liberal arts college in Massachusetts. Prepared for absolutely nothing practical, he stumbled into the early adaptive Outward Bound movement in the 1970s and never looked back. Currently Director of Boston University’s Sargent Center, he oversees a wide variety of outdoor experiential programs on 700 acres in New Hampshire. Formerly a NOLS instructor, itinerant outdoor educator, youth counselor, Elderhostel administrator, teacher and ropes course contractor, Rob enjoys his current role encouraging younger professionals to redefine experiential education. In his spare time, he enjoys sea kayaking, cross-country skiing, hiking, and volunteer work. | |
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Drew Brennan, PhD, member at large Director of Active Curriculum Colorado Rocky Mountain School 1493 County Road 106 Carbondale, Colorado 81623 (970) 963-2562 www.crms.org |
| Drew's steady involvement in the Association for Experiential Education since 1992 has helped him develop a rich community of colleagues and friends that have inspired and helped guide his development as an educator. He credits years spent as a canoe guide and instructor in Northern Minnesota as the spark that encouraged a lifetime in experiential education. He has since taught in higher education, worked as a therapist, and facilitated challenge and outdoor experiences, and conducted research in the field of adventure education. Drew has served on the regional council in the Northwest Region, convened a regional conference, and currently serves as a reviewer for the Journal of Experiential Education. Recently, Drew returned to the West, and is looking forward to exploring the Colorado Plateau with his family. At the Colorado Rocky Mountain School, a private co-educational boarding school on the West Slope of the Rockies, he helps to oversee one of the country's first outdoor programs. | |
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Tom Lindblade, PGLC-sponsored |
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| Tom Lindblade has been a Counselor and Experiential Educator for over forty years. For twenty five of those years he taught in and Coordinated the Field and Experiential learning Program at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn Illinois, and since retirement in 2000, continues to teach there in an adjunct capacity. He has led field studies which have taken students to fifty countries and many wilderness areas of North America. Tom is active on several Boards including the Association for Experiential Education, the Illinois Paddling Council, and Prairie State Canoeists. He is an Instructor/Trainer for the American Canoe Association and continues to train Canoe Instructors for various organizations. | |
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Andrew J. Bobilya, CRC-Sponsored |
| Andrew Bobilya, Ph.D. is currently an Assistant Professor and Co-Chair of the Outdoor Education Department at Montreat College in Montreat, NC, USA. His background includes serving as a field instructor, trainer and program director for various camp and wilderness programs. His current research interests include first-year college student transition programs, wilderness experience program outcomes and the intentional use of solitude in educational programming. He has served AEE in a variety of volunteer roles including the Heartland Region Chair and Council of Regional Chairs, Treasurer. He enjoys spending time outdoors with his wife, Kirsten and daughter Lilyanne. | |
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Jeff Baierlein, CRC-Sponsored |
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| Jeff Baierlein has been involved with AEE as accreditation reviewer, regional treasurer, and presenter at international and regional conferences, and contributed to recent editions of Administrative Practices of AEE Accredited Programs and AEE's Manual of Accreditation Standards for Adventure Programs. With over 20 years professional experience in experiential education, Jeff is the past Executive Director of the AEE-accredited Boojum Institute for Experiential Education, served as Instructor and Course Director for Outward Bound, and has been Education Director with two outdoor education programs. Jeff holds a BS in Environmental Education and a BS in Human Development from Prescott College and an MS in Management from Antioch University. He does consulting and training with experiential education organizations worldwide and instructs for Wilderness Medical Associates. Previous to joining AEE's Board, Jeff sat on the Boards of Prescott College, Northwest Environmental Education Council, and Idyllwild Community Fund of the Community Foundation, and was a member of the Washington State Governor's Council on Environmental Education. | |
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Jennifer Payne, Secretary |
| Currently Jennifer is the Career Resource Center and Internship Program Director at Sterling College in Northern Vermont. Prior to her work at Sterling, and during, Jennifer traveled around the world twice with the Semester At Sea program. Before circumnavigating the globe Jennifer directed educational summer adventure travel programs for high school students at Windsor Mountain International (formerly Interlocken Center for Experiential Learning). A former Outward Bound instructor, summer camp director and a veteran world traveler, she has been an active member of the Association; currently serving as the Secretary of the Board of Directors and the Chair of the Conference Scholarship Committee. Jennifer’s servant leadership began years ago when she served on conference Service Crews and Host Committees and then moved onto leadership roles, serving as the Chair of the Conference Advisory Committee and Secretary, Treasurer, and Chair of the Northeast Region Advisory Council. She is an American Red Cross first aid, swimming and lifeguarding instructor, a certified Professional Ski Instructor of America., and a connoisseur of chocolate. Some of her favorite past times are biking, backpacking, watching sunsets, and canoeing with her husband, Woody, and her son Luke. Jennifer has a B.A. in Psychology from the State University of New York at Geneseo and a M.S. in Recreation, Park, and Tourism Administration (with an Outdoor Adventure Education focus) from Western Illinois University. | |
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Bob Stremba, PGLC-sponsored |
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| Bob Stremba, Ed.D., attended his first AEE conference at Fort Worden, Washington, sometime in the 1980’s and has been hooked ever since. He is currently Program Director and Associate Professor of Adventure Education at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado—the third college where he has developed an adventure education degree program. Current professional interests include exploring ways to to use experiential activities for engaging students in learning the theory, concepts and models of experiential education. Bob also works seasonally for Outward Bound Wilderness, course directing and instructing courses focused on leadership and renewal for youth and adults. | |
Mike King, Treasurer- Elect, Berry College
Mary Pat Sullivan, Member at Large
The Board of Directors uses the John Carver’s Policy Governance Model to guide their work. Please click on the link below to review a short article about this system of governance.
http://www.carvergovernance.com/model.htm
AEE Policy Register
AEE Policy Register July 2008
This document defines the policies that the AEE Board of Directors has adopted to define the framework within which the Association may operate.
11/27/06 Conference Call (pdf)
01/08/07 Conference Call (pdf)
11/07 Meeting (pdf)
07 Annual General Membership Meeting (pdf)
07 AGM Presentation (ppt)
07 Annual Agenda Overview (ppt)
12/11/07 Conference Call (pdf)
01/25/08 Meeting (pdf)
03/03/08 Conference Call (pdf)
03/25/08 Conference Call (pdf)
04/28/08 Conference Call (pdf)
05/14/08 Conference Call (pdf)
06/06/08 Meeting (pdf)
07/09/08 Conf Call (pdf)
08/18/08 Conf Call (pdf)
09/30/08 Conf Call Notes (pdf)
Who to Ask - the AEE Board or the AEE CEO/Staff
Have an idea or concern? Here’s how to make it heard. (pdf)
Information on Touch the Future Campaign
AEE Touch the Future Campaign (pdf)
A Board of Directors managed fund
Thinking About Becoming a Member of the Board of Directors?
Information on joining the Board (pdf)
