George Keller

George Keller (1928–2007) was an American scholar of higher education, Professor of Higher-Education Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, from which he retired in 1994. Keller obtained his BA and MA from Columbia University, where he served as an assistant dean and editor of the school's alumni magazine. His work covering the Columbia University protests of 1968 earned him the Atlantic Monthly’s award as Education Writer of the Year. He also received a U.S. Steel Foundation Award for distinguished service to higher education from Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965. and which has been cited over 200 times since its publication in 1983. At the time of his death, he has completed a book Higher Education and the New Society, to be published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2008. He was also the editor of Planning for Higher Education, the journal of the Society for College and University Planning.