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Amy Baldwin

Senior Lecturer, Literacy & Academic Success

  • University of Central Arkansas
  • Department of Student Transitions

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Amy Baldwin, Ed.D., is the former director of the Department of Student Transitions at the University of Central Arkansas, and current Senior Lecturer of Literacy and Academic Success.

Prior to teaching at UCA, she taught at University of Arkansas - Pulaski Technical College, a two-year institution. She wrote the first, ground-breaking student success textbook for community colleges and the first student success textbook for first-generation students for Pearson Education. She is also the lead author of College Success (2020), College Success Concise (2023), and Preparing for College Success (2023), an Open Education Resource (OER) by OpenStax. She posts "bite-size" faculty development ideas, inspirations, strategies, and confessions on Instagram @thecuriousprofessor.

You find out more about her at www.itsinthesyllabus.com and www.higheredparent.com or at LinkedIn.