Burgess holds an Ed.D. in higher education with a specialization in online learning from Nova Southeastern University, and an M.A. in history from the Johns Hopkins University, with a focus on American public thought. In addition to teaching he spent many years developing adult, continuing education programs at a wide variety of colleges and universities. As Vice President and Provost at the N.H. Community Technical College in Stratham, he helped develop a number of cooperative programs with Granite State College. “I discovered adult, non-traditional learners in my early teaching years”, he says, “and it set the rest of my academic career. The growth of continuing education is perhaps the most significant trend in higher education since the end of World War II, and I’ve always found working adults the most stimulating learners with whom to work”. He also is Executive Director of the Upland Headwaters Alliance, a group of conservation agencies in western Maine and the Mount Washington Valley. If not in front of his computer, he usually is somewhere in the Maine woods or waters.

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