Dr. Shirley Baugher

University of Minnesota

Biography:

Shirley Baugher is dean of the College of Human Ecology at the University of Minnesota and associate director of the Agricultural Experiment Station.

As Dean and the college's chief academic and administrative officer, Baugher is responsible for the college's teaching, research, and outreach programs and for providing overall leadership for educational issues within the college and in partnerships with state, national and international communities.

Baugher has been active in the field of family and consumer sciences for over 30 years, focusing on the integrative and ecological functions within multiple environments that support families and communities.

Baugher received bachelor's and masters degrees from Northeast Missouri State University and a doctorate in Education from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Baugher served as assistant dean and coordinator of international programs in the College of Human Ecology and as assistant dean of the Minnesota Extension Service from 1983 to 1991. From 1992-2000 she worked at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Baugher has additional experience as a deputy administrator in the Extension Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Baugher has received numerous professional honors and awards, including a Fellow of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation from 1987-1990, Leader Award of the Nebraska Association of Family and Consumer Sciences in 1997, and Adult Educator of the Year in 1987 by the Missouri Valley Adult Education Association. She presently serves as editor of the Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences of the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences and President of the Council of Administrators of Family and Consumer Sciences.

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