Rose Baker

Rose Baker is a professional associate for Management Development. She joined Penn State Management Development Programs and Services in 2001 as a full-time faculty member. She became a part-time professional associate in 2006.

Dr. Baker brings nearly 20 years of instructional design, project management, and teaching experience, and more than 10 years of business experience, to her position at Penn State. Formerly, she worked as an instructional designer and project manager with General Motors, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Training and Educational Systems Associates, University of Phoenix, Huntingdon County Career and Technology Center, and the Pennsylvania public school system. She performed benchmarking and instructed and researched global trends for e-business and coaching strategies. She was a partner in successful retail businesses for more than 10 years and has worked as a manuscript review consultant for Corwin Press, Inc., Penn State Workforce Education, and Penn State faculty.

In addition to her appointment in Management Development, Dr. Baker is also the program manager for the Workforce Assessment Center at Penn State. She was formerly employed by the Penn State World Campus to perform and analyze survey and interview evaluations of courses.

Dr. Baker earned a B.A. in mathematics and chemistry from Washington & Jefferson College, and an M.Ed. in adult education and a Ph.D. in instructional systems from Penn State. She is a certified teacher with an Instructional II certificate, and a certified Project Management Professional  with the Project Management Institute.

In these assignments, Dr. Baker was involved in all aspects of instructional design and project management, including multiple levels of analysis, material design and development, implementation and multilevel evaluation, and all aspects of general management (operations, human resource planning, finance, sales, marketing, and strategic planning). She has also worked as a manuscript review consultant for Corwin Press, Inc., Penn State Workforce Education, and several Penn State professors.