In his role as Guttman’s OER Campus Coordinator, Dr. Samuel Finesurrey works with faculty to adopt, alter, and create open educational resources to save students money and simultaneously making materials timelier and more relevant. Further, he has used his academic training to participate in the development of new OERs, including his work on the textbook U.S. Government and Politics in Principle and Practice: Democracy, Rights, Freedoms and Empire. Dr. Finesurrey received his Ph.D. in Cuban history, with a specialization in U.S. foreign policy and oral history from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.