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BAKER PROUD | Fall 2017

Baker Launches New Degree Offerings

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aker University is proud to unveil three new undergraduate majors on the Baldwin City campus
this fall, and a new online Doctor of Education
program launching in spring 2018. As the first
university in Kansas, Baker University continues its long
history of recognizing educational needs and developing
innovative programs for the ever-changing higher education landscape.

Recreation
"Recreation majors can travel down several paths when
pursuing their profession," said Associate Professor Dr.
Verneda Edwards. "From nonprofit community organizations, commercial recreation, employee services, tourism
and hospitality, private membership organizations, armed
forces, and park agencies, students have many avenues to
pursue through this recreation major."

Health Humanities
Baker's health humanities program is the first multidisciplinary degree of its kind to be offered in Kansas.
"The number of undergraduate health humanities
programs in the U.S. has more than quadrupled since the
year 2000, and I am thrilled that Baker University is now
home to the first and only one in Kansas," said Associate
Professor of English Dr. Tamara Slankard. "Graduates in
this rapidly growing field of study are in high demand
because they are well-rounded, holistic thinkers who
demonstrate factual knowledge and practical skills as well
as the ability to engage in humanistic inquiry."

Doctor of Education in Instructional Design
and Performance Technology
With a forecast from the Kansas Occupational Outlook
Handbook of nearly 25 percent growth through 2020 for
instructional designers and coordinators, this in-demand
degree is well suited for professionals working in corporate, military, health care, and government fields and in
K-12 and post-secondary education.
"What makes the Baker EdD in IDPT program distinctive is that it unites instructional design and technology
(the design, development, utilization, management, and
evaluation of learning) with human performance technology (the systematic approach to improving individual and
organizational performance)," said Dr. Marcus Childress,
dean of the School of Education. "By combining these two
fields into an EdD degree, candidates will come away with
the knowledge and unique set of skills necessary to lead
and direct the future training and performance needs of
their organizations."

Public Health
"We are very excited to introduce a major that prepares
students to enter a professional health care field that is
continually unifying policy makers, professional agencies,
universities, and health care and allied health care providers with a goal to impact a full range of factors touching an
individual's general health," said Dr. Chris Todden, director of exercise science and public health. These students
can become key players in public health nursing, physical
activity, law, research, communication, and education.

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