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BRET EYNON is a historian and Associate Provost at LaGuardia Community College (CUNY), where he leads collegewide change initiatives related to learning, teaching, curriculum, technology, advisement, assessment and strategic planning. The founder of LaGuardia’s Center for Teaching and Learning and its internationally known ePortfolio project, Eynon co-directed (with Georgetown’s Randy Bass) the national Visible Knowledge Project and directed the FIPSE-funded Connect to Learning project, a twenty-four campus community of innovation focused on building student, faculty and institutional learning.

Eynon’s many articles and books include Freedom’s Unfinished Revolution: An Inquiry into the Civil War and Reconstruction; 1968: An International Student Generation in Revolt; and The Difference that Inquiry Makes: Digital Technology in the History and Culture Classroom; as well as Who Built America?, an award-winning series of textbooks, films, and CD-ROMs created with CUNY’s American Social History Project. His most recent books include Open and Integrative: Designing Liberal Education for the New Digital Ecosystem co-authored with Randy Bass (2016); and Catalyst in Action: Case Studies of High Impact ePortfolio Practice, co-authored with Laura M. Gambino (2018).

Writing grants for and leading projects funded by NEH, the Mellon Foundation, FIPSE and the USDOE’s First in the World initiative, Eynon has been honored for his work by the American Association for Higher Education, the American Council on Education, the Community College Futures Association, and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The national Community College Humanities Association has recognized him as a Distinguished Humanities Educator.

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