Rob Eaton is a professor of religious education at BYU-Idaho, where he also teaches a course for all new faculty members. Rob also spent eight years as an associate academic vice president, helping create what has become BYU Pathway Worldwide—an online program now serving over 57,000 students in over 160 countries. He also oversaw efforts to improve learning and teaching among the campus-based faculty.
Rob has an especially winding career path, which was a bit embarrassing to him until he read Range. Now he just feels well-rounded. He earned a bachelor’s in international relations from BYU and a law degree from Stanford, where he was named the outstanding oralist in the law school’s appellate court competition. Before ditching the legal and corporate world for teaching, Rob practiced law for seven years in Seattle and worked as a vice president of a consortium of Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies in the Northwest for three years. He has written a number of books on religious themes as well as a biography, but Improving Learning and Mental Health in the College Classroom is his first work in the scholarship of learning and teaching.
