Keeling & Associates (K&A) was founded in 1984, when Richard P. Keeling, MD, our CEO, began working with colleges and universities to help strengthen their health-related programs and services. Recognizing the close relationships between health and learning, the company soon broadened its focus to include not only the many components of the student experience, but also the factors that influenced learning itself, and the quality of the campus learning environment. Buildling on Dr. Keeling's experience in both the academic faculty and student affairs, K&A worked independently and with professional organizations in higher education to advance a comprehensive view of learning that drew upon all campus resources to engage and transform students. Twenty years after we began, K&A is now a comprehensive higher education consulting firm with credentials, expertise, and skill in both academic and out-of-classroom programs and services.

K&A's core strengths are in the intellectual capital and experience of our consultants and Senior Associates, our networks of colleagues, and our strong reputation in higher education. Today, K&A consults with Presidents, Chief Academic Officers, senior Student Affairs administrators, Governing Boards, student and faculty groups, and leaders of not-for-profit organizations and ethical businesses that can help students and campuses achieve their goals and improve their learning outcomes.

Through a series of innovative partnerships between carefully selected corporations and colleges, K&A has linked business and higher education -- with the purpose of further improving health and learning on campus. At the same time, Keeling & Associates has also developed key consulting, business development, and publishing partnerships with new clients in business, health care, and community services.

For Keeling & Associates, "health" has always been a comprehensive quality that means more than just fitness or wellness, and isn't limited to medical factors. It expresses both a state of well-being and the capacity to learn -- and it encompasses not just individual students, but also the communities they share.