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(Lev Gonick is donating one hour of his time to the winning bidder)

Lev Gonick is CWRU's vice president for information services and chief information officer. He comes to CWRU from California State University at Monterey Bay, where he is chief information technology officer.

From 1996-99, Gonick was university dean for instructional technology and academic computing at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona. Under his leadership, Cal Poly Pomona became a national leader in charting the future of higher education in the digital age. MediaVision, that university's digital education content development and delivery system, has been recognized with awards from both the technology and education communities.

Gonick has served as national chair of the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative on Institutional Readiness for Online Instruction, and he has been a consultant to more than 30 universities, colleges, and museums across the country and in Canada.

He also has consulted and lectured at numerous international universities, including ones based in Australia, Japan, and South Africa.

Twelve years ago, Gonick supported the development of HealthNet and Mango, one of southern Africa's first Internet nodes in facilitating connectivity between healthcare professionals and nongovernmental organizations in the field.

He has been involved in designing and implementing the Digital Learning Network project in five west African countries and another multimedia learning initiative called Seeds of Peace in Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and Palestine. Gonick founded the International Political Economy Network in 1993, and he has been associated with Communications for a Sustainable Future (csf.colorado.edu) since its founding also in 1993.

Gonick received his B.A. in political science from Ohio State University in 1981, his M.A. in political science from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1983, and his Ph.D. in political science at York University in Toronto in 1992.

He began his teaching career as an assistant professor of political science at Wilfrid Laurier University from 1992-94. In 1994, he held a Pew Faculty Fellowship in International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

In 1994 and 1995, Gonick held faculty appointments at Arizona State University - West, the University of Guelph, and Wilfrid Laurier University. He held distinguished visiting professorships at Northern Arizona State University in 1995 and at Arizona State in 1996.

Gonick, 42, is a citizen of the United States and Canada. He and his wife, Barbara Weltman-Gonick, have two children.

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(Lev Gonick is donating one hour of his time to the winning bidder)

We accept Mastercard and Visa(not American Express) payments and cash payments. All money is due by Friday, July 16.

The executives will meet with the winning bidders at a time convenient to both parties, on or before December 1, 2004.