Matt Baker, Ph.D.
Departmental Chairperson, Department of Agricultural Education and Communications
Professor, Department of Agricultural Education and Communications
Joint Faculty Member, Doc@Distance
Center Associate, CASNR Water Center

TTU, Dept. of Agricultural Education and Communications, P.O. Box 42131, Rm 103, Lubbock, TX 79409
806.742.2816 |   806.742.2880
matt.baker@ttu.edu

Education

• Ph.D., Agricultural Education, Ohio State University (1990)
• M.Ed., Educational Administration, Texas Tech University (1986)
• B.S., Agricultural Education, Texas Tech University (1979)

Dr. Matt Baker became the Chair for the Department of Agricultural Education and Communications in 2000 after thirteen years of cumulative teaching service at University of Florida, California State Polytechnic University, and Ohio State University. His research focuses on developing teaching methods and online training programs, examining learning styles, determining the relationship between critical and creative thinking, and analyzing student evaluations. Dr. Baker has also focused his research on water, with publications on identifying factors associated with teaching water issues in secondary agricultural science programs and analyzing water-related curriculum needs as perceived by agricultural science teachers in programs located within the boundaries of the Ogallala Aquifer.

Dr. Baker is involved in many honorary and professional organizations: Gamma Sigma Delta, Phi Delta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Omicron Tau Theta, Alpha Zeta, the American Association of Agricultural Education, the Association for International Agriculture and Extension Education, the Texas Vocational Agriculture Teachers' Association, and the National Association for Agricultural Education. He has received recognition for an Outstanding Research Paper at the National Agricultural Education Research Conference (2004) and Outstanding Paper Presentation at the Western Agricultural Education Research Meeting (2002). He was the 2002 recipient of the Friend of Extension Award-El Paso County Cooperative Extension.

Courses Taught
Interrelationships of Agricultural Agency Information Systems, Human Dimensions of International Agricultural Development, Research Methods in Agricultural and Extension Education, College Teaching in Agricultural and Natural Resources

Selected Publications

• Hayes, R., Cabrera, V., & Baker, M. (2006). Impact of extension in the Cañete Valley of Peru: A convergence of spatial, economical statistical and anecdotal evidence. Paper presented at the 26th Student Conference on Latin America, Institute of Latin American Studies Student Association, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
• Pomeroy, C., & Baker, M. (2006). The benefit of baskets: The economic, social, and cultural impacts of fair trade of the indigenous Ye’Kwana in the Rio Caura region, Venezuela. Paper presented at the 2006 Association for International Agriculture and Extension Education’s Annual Meeting, Clearwater, FL.
• Baker, M., Pomeroy, C., Liberato, A., & Mashburn, D. (2006). Challenges in community forestry management: A case study of the indigenous tribal village of Santa Teresita in Boliva. Paper presented at the 2006 Association for International Agriculture and Extension Education’s Annual Meeting, Clearwater, FL.
• Womack, W.M., Baker, M., & Dooley, K.E. (2005). Characteristics of creative county extension programs in Texas: Comparison of administrative perceptions to observations in identified creative programs. Journal of Southern Agricultural Education Research, 55(1), 116-128.
• Allen, V., Baker, M., Segarra, E., & Brown, P. (2005). Integrated systems in dry climates: Integrated crop-livestock systems in irrigated, semiarid and arid Environments. Invited presentation to the American Agronomy Society, Salt Lake City, UT.
• Baker, M., Pomeroy, C., Liberato, A., & Mashburn, D. (2005). Challenges in community forestry management: A case study of the indigenous tribal village of Santa Teresita in Boliva. Paper presented at the 25th Student Conference on Latin America, Institute of Latin American Studies Student Association, University of Texas, Austin, TX.
• Kistler, M., Jones, K., Baker, M., & Doerfert, D. (2005). Attitudinal variability among Southern High Plains cotton producers toward integrated crop/livestock systems. Paper presented at the 21st Annual Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education Conference, San Antonio, Texas.