- 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 Elect |
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| Laurie Frank [has been an experiential educator since working as a camp counselor. He became a teacher and taught all grades. Most of his career was spent at the university level. He earned his bachelor's degree in junior high education, a master's degree in administration, and a doctorate in curriculum and instruction. He retired from Northern Illinois University in 2001 and continued to write, travel, and present workshops. He has interests in environmental ethics, indigenous cultures, processing experience, and history. He is a life-long learner who thrives on creating new ways of teaching and learning about nature and human nature.] | |
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Steve Pace, President |
| Steve Pace [has been an experiential educator since working as a camp counselor. He became a teacher and taught all grades. Most of his career was spent at the university level. He earned his bachelor's degree in junior high education, a master's degree in administration, and a doctorate in curriculum and instruction. He retired from Northern Illinois University in 2001 and continued to write, travel, and present workshops. He has interests in environmental ethics, indigenous cultures, processing experience, and history. He is a life-long learner who thrives on creating new ways of teaching and learning about nature and human nature.] | |
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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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Maurie Lung, Member at Large |
| Maurie Lung is a licensed Marriage Family Therapist currently operating her own business, Life Adventures Counseling and Consulting. Starting from a camping background, moving into the classroom, and finally to an outdoor office, she integrates her knowledge of recreation, experiential education, and psychology to provide sensitive, educational and adventure-based therapeutic services for people of diverse ages, cultures, and life styles. | |
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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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Jessie Barrie, CRC-Sponsored |
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| Jess Barrie is the Chair of the Experiential Education Department at Albuquerque Academy, an independent school for grades 6-12 in Albuquerque, NM. Jess holds her PhD in Educational Leadership and Organizations from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focused on the affects of adventure education on adolescent girls' inner motivational resources. Jess also works as the Crisis Management Coordinator at Albuquerque Academy, is on the steering committee for the Independent School Adventure Education Network and is a member of the Board of Directors for the Association for Experiential 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 April 30, 2008 (pdf)
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)
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)
