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Meet Professor Elaine Baker

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Dr. Elaine Baker, Professor of Psychology; MU-ADVANCE Administrative Partner; and Director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL), will soon be retiring after 36 years at Marshall University.

Beginning her academic career at Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio, Dr. Baker says that hers was an “accidental life.” As a junior, the Dean of Students came to her and insisted that she pick a major. She was enrolled in a psychology course and decided that that was what she would do. After completing her B.A., Dr. Baker went on to Miami University where she would earn a M.A. in General Psychology and a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, specializing in Animal Behavior. Following one year as an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Wilmington College, Dr. Baker was offered and accepted a position in Marshall’s Psychology Department, where she has dedicated herself to her students and to the improvement of the university at large.

Dr. Baker has not yet mapped out her retirement plans. She will continue to care for her elderly mother, and plans to volunteer for Branches Domestic Violence Center and perhaps the Public Library. Teaching English abroad or joining the Peace Corps in Bulgaria are just a few of the many possible adventures in Dr. Baker’s future.

Although she “accidentally” became a psychologist, Dr. Baker says that if she had her life to live over, she would do it exactly the same.

The faculty and staff of the College of Liberal Arts extends a sincere thanks and much gratitude for nearly four decades of dedication.

name:  Elaine Baker
title:    Professor
office:  Old Main 109
phone: 304.696.5268
email:   bakere@marshall.edu