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Rodney Alan Crater has been a post-secondary teacher and educator for the last 24 years at the community college, private non-profit university, private for-profit university, and public for-profit university level . During this time he had the pleasure learning meditation and teaching Computer Science courses at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, a consciousness-based educational institution that was founded by under the guidance of the late Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the guru of The Beatles. Rodney has graduate degrees in education, computer science, bioinformatics, and has plans to pursue further degrees in biology, planetary science, and astronomy in the future.
In his spare time Rodney tends to his “mini farm-like property” on an acre and a half in the city where he and his wife tend their 10 adopted chickens, large organic garden, and soon again hive of honeybees. They share the land with a herd of about 30 roaming deer that lay around at will, drink from a small pool, and make rounds through the town daily eating everyone’s foliage. In addition, numerous rabbits, squirrels, birds, and other assorted animals roam the grounds freely at all hours.
Rodney has also worked in the past for a number of years in a real estate brokerage and property management firm, as a corrections officer and sergeant, and as a communications/navigation technician on F4s and F18s in the United States Marine Corps.
Semper Fi
