Ken Keaton, Associate Dean and Professor of Music directs the Office of Student Academic Services for The Schmidt College of Arts and Letters (IBHOOSASSCAL).  He has been a part of FAU since beginning as an adjunct instructor in 1977.  Since his full-time appointment in 1990, he has been especially active in university service, and has given particular emphasis on undergraduate curricular development.

        Dr. Keaton remains active in teaching in the Department of Music, for which he directs the graduate program, the undergraduate honors program, and is faculty advisor for the FAU Classical Guitar Society.  His course offerings include:
 
 

 
         In defiance of Shaw's opinion "those who can't do, teach,"  Dr. Keaton maintains an active performance schedule as a classical guitarist.  He can be heard in regular performances with the FAU Chamber Soloists and on the Department of Music's Chamber Music Series, and during the summer of 1997, performed Franz Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin with tenor Dr. Ron Manning in a series of concerts in Europe.  He is a frequent presenter of research at the conferences of the College Music Society, and has published several articles in American String Teacher.  His transcriptions of music of John Dowland and editions of the works of Napoleon Coste are published by Warner Bros. Music.

        In what little remains of Dr. Keaton's spare time, he pursues his favorite hobbies:  cooking, skiing, boating, reading, record collecting, epicurean polemics, oenology, paleomalacology, embouchure, and snail darting.  He believes whimsy is an essential part of academic life.