Name:	Keith Morton
Title:	Professor
Department:	Department of Public and Community Service Studies
Organization:	Providence College
Phone:	(401) 865-1204
Email:	kmorton [a] providence.edu
Address:	- - Providence, RI 02918-0001

Brief Biography:
Currently Professor of Public and Community Service and American Studies at Providence College, Keith Morton has worked in the areas of experiential education, community development, community service and community theory for the past twenty years. Prior to joining Providence College in 1994, he worked as program and then executive director of the University of Minnesota YMCA, which runs intensive service learning programs for 500 participants each year; and as director of Campus Compact's national Project on Integrating Service with Academic Study. He serves on the boards of several local and national organizations dedicated to improving the quality of life for people in their communities, and is particularly interested in youth and sustainable community development. He also works regularly as a workshop leader and trainer for education and community based organizations. His teaching and scholarship focus on the historic and present meanings of community and service in people's lives.

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