Keeling & Associates, LLC (K&A) is a higher education consulting and professional services firm that creates “change for learning.” Founded in 1999, the firm works exclusively in higher education—with colleges and universities, state university systems, and higher education professional organizations—on projects that have a common purpose: to advance learning and improve outcomes for both students and institutions. K&A has worked with more than 350 institutions of higher education across the United States and Canada and has facilitated strategic reviews and visioning or planning projects for more than 115 colleges and universities, including for whole institutions or schools, divisions or major departments, and institutes and centers, as well as higher education professional organizations and their related foundations. K&A’s executive search service places exceptional candidates in both interim and permanent campus leadership roles. Through those projects and services, and the comparative and contextual research needed to advance them, K&A has gained a broad understanding of the particular challenges and opportunities facing institutions today.