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The Biographical Profile of Kenneth Bruffee

Education/Experience

PhD Northwestern University

MA Northwestern University

BA Wesleyan University

Bruffee is currently the Professor of English emeritus of Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He has also taught at the University of New Mexico, Northwestern University, the University of Virginia, Columbia University, Cooper Union, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Selected Honors

Keynote Speaker at Pen State 24th Annual National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing, 2007.

Founding editor of WPA, the journal of the National Council of Writing Program Administrators, of which he was a co-founder

New York University Faculty Resource Network Scholar in Residence, 1998–2000.

Delivered the University of Memphis Marcus Orr Higher Education Lecture on “Changing Paradigms in College and University Teaching,” 1996

Broeklundian Professorship at Brooklyn College, 1991–94, and was a Wolfe Institute Faculty Fellow, 1991–92.

Keynote speaker at the Brown University Conference on Peer Tutoring, 1984 and 1993

Directed a FIPSE-funded Institute in Peer Tutoring and Collaborative Learning in 1979–82.

First Chair of the Modern Language Association Teaching of Writing Division (1976)

Bruffee served as the Director of the Brooklyn College Honors Academy for over twenty years http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/bc/text/showcase/honorsacademy.htm

Bruffee has led colloquia on collaborative learning, liberal education, and the authority of knowledge at Bard College, Brown University, Bucknell University, University of Chicago, Colby College, University of Colorado, Columbia University, University of Delaware, Hobart-William Smith College, Lewis and Clark College, Union College, University of Memphis, University of Minnesota, New York University, University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, the U.S. Army War College (Carlisle), and at the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Workshop on Interpreting the Humanities at Princeton University.

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