{"id":21812,"date":"2025-05-05T12:04:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T16:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=21812"},"modified":"2025-05-05T12:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T16:04:18","slug":"paul-hutchinson","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/profile\/paul-hutchinson\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Hutchinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Paul J. Hutchinson is a Senior Lecturer at Boston University Questrom School of Business teaching in both the undergraduate and MBA programs.\u00a0 Hutch has worked with over 50,000 participants in teambuilding and leadership programs since he began practicing experiential education in 1996. Hutch\u2019s recent professional work has focused on utilizing emerging technologies to enhance experiential learning, from GPS-based urban adventures to virtual teambuilding on-line.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Throughout his career, he has facilitated the development of effective team processes for professional managers and executive teams from industry and nonprofit organizations.\u00a0 He has led backcountry, challenge course, and urban teambuilding programs throughout the United States and Europe.\u00a0 He is a Leave No Trace Master Educator, has extensive training in wilderness medicine, vertical rope work, and has been trained by the National Cave Rescue Commission.\u00a0 He is the Experience Based Training and Development Liaison for the Northeast Region of the Association for Experiential Education and has presented at national and regional conferences including: the Association for Experiential Education, the Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference, the Association for Challenge Course Technology, the American Camp Association, the American College Personnel Association, the National Orientation Directors Association, and the National Association of Campus Activities.\u00a0 He is also a Lead Instructor for Outward Bound-Professional.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hutch earned his Ph.D. in American and New England Studies at Boston University. His dissertation, Crafting an Outdoor Classroom: The Nineteenth-Century Roots of the Outdoor Education Movement, argues that the pedagogy of experiential education resulted from changing perspectives on youth and wilderness in nineteenth century America. His research interests include environmental history, transcendentalism, the relationship between culture and pedagogy, and the intersection of people, planet, and profit within American history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21370,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/21812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/21812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21813,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/21812\/revisions\/21813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}