If you want to keep educating yourself, you have to keep leading yourself out from wherever you are now. You don’t stay in your comfort zone.
Cynthia Baer has known since she was five years old that she wanted to be a teacher. Stimulating minds is what she continues to do in everything from freshman English to upper-division literature courses. She is lauded for her energy, her commitment to students, her relaxed yet challenging style and her skill for helping students grasp not just the “how” of writing, but the “why.”
A member of multiple committees, faculty-in-residence at the Writing Center, Stretch English Pilot coordinator and the only lecturer participating in the Dean’s Leadership Academy this year, her investment in SJSU is clear. Baer says she found her intellectual home and family here when she was an undergraduate. Now she relishes helping others do the same.