Pam Buffington is C21U's Director of External and Faculty Engagement. In addition to her role with C21U, she is also the Associate Director for Academic Technology with the Office of Information Technology. She has extensive experience at Georgia Tech and has worked in a variety of roles and responsibilities since 1995 enabling innovative uses of information technologies in both research and academic/instructional capacities.

To date, she has managed the technology component for development of more than 20 unique MOOCs, including 3 sponsored through a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant, as well as blended and flipped classroom pilots, and several related University System of Georgia initiatives dealing with innovation in the delivery of post-secondary instruction.