Rich Campbell

MA - College Student Development - ASU
Associate Director, Outdoor Programs
Appalachian State University
828-262-2475
campbllrh@appstate.edu

I have been teaching students for 18 years in a variety of settings and pursuits including mountaineering, rock climbing, backpacking/trekking, sea kayaking, road and mountain biking, telemark and alpine skiing, canoeing, caving, rafting, challenge courses, extended backcountry expeditions, international adventure travel, and a variety of courses in the classroom. I have implemented over 26 multi~week backcountry expeditions and instructed well over 1,000 field days in outdoor education. Some of the expedition course locations I have been fortunate enough to course direct include North Carolina, the Everglades in Florida, the Tetons and Wind River Mountains in Wyoming, the North Cascades in Washington, Alaska, New Zealand, and Fiji.

Completing a NOLS Instructor’s Course in 1991 provided me with an outstanding foundation to my work in the field of outdoor adventure education. Working in the non~profit sector in the early 1990’s as an Associate Director of Eagle’s Nest Foundation and Director for the Hante Mountain School, also affiliated with Eagle’s Nest, has contributed to my professional development in significant ways that continues to complement my work in academia.

I continue to seek new challenges in an effort to remain current and focused in my work. Most recently (June 2006 ~ June 2007) ~ through an initiative I was fortunate enough to have helped develop ~ I was invited to spend one year on the South Island of New Zealand on a faculty exchange at Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology. Teaching in the School of Travel, Tourism, and Recreation at CPIT, which offers one of the largest and most respected Outdoor Adventure Education degree programs in New Zealand, challenged and inspired me in innumerable ways, and influences the work I do today at ASU.

These experiences~along with a Bachelor’s Degree in Outdoor Recreation and a Master’s Degree in Student Development ~ have provided my foundation for guiding a large, comprehensive university outdoor program. In addition, I maintain a connection to a variety of organizations that inform my work including the Association for Outdoor Recreation and Education, Association for Experiential Education, American Canoe Association, American Mountain Guides Association, Wilderness Medicine Institute, and others.

I have been with ASU Outdoor Programs since 1994 in a variety of different roles, currently serving as Associate Director.

Andrew Miller

MA - College Student Development -ASU
BS - Recreation Management - ASU
Coordinator, Land Based Programs and Climbing Wall
ACA Open Water Coastal Kayak Instructor
PCIA Based Managed Climbing Instructor
828.262.4954
millra@appstate.edu

Andrew’s strength lies in the training and development of outdoor leadership skills in the areas of risk management, program planning, backpacking, rock climbing, spelunking and sea kayaking. He has worked with adjudicated youth in adventure settings and served as board chairman for the Mountain Alliance; a non-profit organization dedicated to the leadership development of youth through service and adventure. Andrew has worked with Outdoor Programs since 1996 and has led various expeditions for ASU students to locations including Wyoming, Alaska, and New Zealand. He currently supervises all land-based and climbing wall activities with Outdoor Programs and is responsible for the development of comprehensive outdoor recreation and education programs and the training and assessment of field instructors. Andrew is a qualified climbing and sea kayak instructor with extensive experience in backcountry travel, adventure leadership, and outdoor instructor training.

DAVE "HUTCH" HUTCHISON

MA - Student Development - Miami University
Coordinator, Water Based Programs and First Ascent
828.262.7388
hutchisonde@appstate.edu

Dave Hutchison has been working at Appalachian State University since 1999 as the Coordinator for Club Sports and additionally as the Coordinator for First Ascent (OP's Wilderness Orientation program for First Year Students) since 2002.  He's been involved in adventure programming since getting hooked on outdoor education in Graduate School at Miami University where he received his Master's Degree in Student Development. Before that he spent a couple of post college years as a Triathlon geek / outdoor sports bum (and waiter) in Boulder, Colorado. It was there that he developed a passion for the outdoors and adventure.  His undergraduate experience was spent studying literature (in between swim practices) at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. class of 1993. He is originally from Alma, Michigan among the soy bean fields of the midwest.