Chairman & Senior Executive Consultant

Richard P. Keeling, MD leads Keeling & Associates, LLC (K&A), an independent higher education consulting practice in New York City. K&A helps colleges, universities, and professional associations in higher education develop and implement strategy, promote student success, improve student learning, strengthen programs and services, and enhance organizational effectiveness.

Dr. Keeling is Co-Chair and Co-Founder of the International Center for Student Success and Institutional Accountability, formed through a partnership of K&A and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA). He also is Senior Fellow for the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement and a Senior Scholar of the American College Personnel Association (ACPA); he is serving his second term on the Board of Directors of the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS). He has been President of the American College Health Association, the Foundation for Health in Higher Education, the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, and the International Society for AIDS Education. He served two terms as Editor of the Journal of American College Health, is Co-Editor of Science Education and Civic Engagement: An International Journal, and is a member of the editorial boards of three other professional journals.

Dr. Keeling took his Bachelor’s degree in English, summa cum laude, from the University of Virginia and received his doctorate in medicine from Tufts University. After completing residency training in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Hematology at the University of Virginia, he directed the Department of Student Health at that institution for 13 years. He left Virginia to become Executive Director of University Health Services and Professor of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he served through 1999. In both institutions, he was the only person who was simultaneously a tenured regular faculty member and a senior student affairs administrator.

Dr. Keeling has received the highest awards of both the American College Health Association and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA), and, in 1996, he was named Health Educator of the Year by the American Association for Health Education. He has received two honorary doctorates in science. His most recent honors are the Bernard Mayes Award of the University of Virginia Alumni Association’s Serpentine Society and the Clifford Reifler Award of the American College Health Association.

Dr. Keeling is the author of more than 150 published articles, chapters, monographs, and books. He edited both monographs in the Learning Reconsidered series, produced collaboratively by NASPA and ACPA. The primary focus of his work is on institutional and professional strategies to improve outcomes and effectiveness in higher education. His clinical experience, teaching, and scholarship center on immunodeficiency diseases and their effects on individuals, society, and culture.