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Linda L. Baer is Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs at The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system. Dr. Baer received her Bachelors Degree in Sociology from Washington State University, Masters in Sociology from Colorado State University and her Ph.D. in Sociology from South Dakota State University. Dr. Baer regularly assumes leadership roles in the state in instructional technology, bridging colleges and universities with the workplace, assessment and accountability, and educational transformations. Her publications and presentations include work in demography and rural sociology, the myths and realities of technology-enhanced education, and the building of virtual partnerships. A book chapter was co-authored in Continuous Quality Improvement: Making the Transition to Education, entitled "Partners in Progress: An Integrative Approach to Educational Quality." She has co-authored a book entitled: Partnering in the Learning Marketspace published by Educause and Jossey-Bass. She has also made national presentations on assessment of quality, the role of faculty governance in accreditation, and readiness issues for virtual learning partnerships. She has presented on Developing the ABCs of Successful Partnerships and Building the Successful Partnership Portfolio. Honors include the Gamma Sigma Delta Outstanding Teacher Award, a Distinguished Service Award from the Great Plains Sociological Society, a Centennial Woman, an Outstanding Educational Leadership Award from Native American Students at Bemidji State University, and the Outstanding Leadership Award from the Northwest Indian Opportunities Industrialization Center in Bemidji, Minnesota. Dr. Baer has served in numerous offices in professional organizations and regional societies. She serves on the Kellogg Foundation Forum for Higher Education Transformation, the Midwest Higher Education Commission steering committee for the Distributed Learning Workshop, and was on the Association of American Colleges and Universities committee that produced Facing Change: Building the Faculty of the Future. Dr. Baer served as the co-chair of the initial years of the Minnesota Virtual University initiative, where she led the statewide effort to provide Minnesota citizens with better access to post-secondary instruction and other services made available by partner institutions and businesses throughout the state. Currently she is participating in the Educause National Learning Infrastructure Initiative project on developing partnerships in the learning marketspace.
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