Education
Ph.D., Educational Leadership, Curriculum and Culture, Miami University of Ohio Oxford
M.A., History, University of Kentucky
B.A., History, Transylvania University
Publications
Jonathan Tyler Baker and Jaimie Biermann, “The Disadvantaged, the Slow Learner, the Handicapped, and Minorities”: Ohio Higher Education and the Conation of Race and Ability, 1970 to 2000,” The Journal of Curriculum Theory, Winter 2024 (upcoming)
Jonathan Tyler Baker, “Access, Intelligence, and Taxes: Why Ohio Public Two-Year Higher Education Nearly Failed in the 1970s,” Ohio Valley History, Spring 2024 (upcoming)
Jonathan Tyler Baker, “Consigned to the Graveyard: Transylvania College and the Unlikely Success of the American Liberal Arts College After World War II,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Spring 2023. DOI: 10.1353/khs.2022.0019
Jonathan Tyler Baker, Reflections of a Rural White Working-Class Kid in Higher Education, Currere Exchange Journal, 7(1), 26–32, 2023.
Jonathan Tyler Baker & Sophya Tukhvatulina, Reflections of Adult Learners in Asynchronous Online Degree Programs, Journal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education, vol. 6, no. 1. https://doi.org/10.36021/jethe.v6i1.344
Jonathan Tyler Baker, “A Policy of Accessibility: Ohio Higher Education’s Attempt at Equity, 1975-1983,” Ohio History, Fall 2021.
Jonathan Tyler Baker, “Rhodes’ Way or the Highway: The Consequences of Politics and Ideology in Ohio Public Higher Education After World War II,” Ohio Valley History, Winter 2022.
Jonathan Tyler Baker and Kate Rousmaniere, “Book Review,” Going to College in the Sixties by John R. Thelin in History of Education Quarterly (59)3 (2019): 433-435.
Jonathan Tyler Baker, “Higher-Class Whites,” in Encyclopedia of Critical Whiteness Studies in Education, ed. Zachary Casey, Boston: Brill Sense, 2021.
“The Purpose of Education: Character in the Rust Belt,” Op-Ed, The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 28, 2017. https://www.chronicle.com/article/Commentary-HopeCare-Can/239279
In Memories of a Glorious Past: Transylvania College and the Liberal Arts in American Higher Education, Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky: UKnowledge, 2017.
Historical Markers at Transylvania University for “Imagining the Past: Transylvania’s Buildings Then and Now,” 2014.
Conference Papers
“The Disadvantaged, the Slow Learner, the Handicapped, and Minorities”: Ohio Higher Education and the Conation of Race and Ability, 1970 to 2000,” Conference of the Journal of Curriculum Theory, October 2022.
“So You Wanna Help Me Build a Black History Curriculum at HBCU for White Folks?” And Other Things We Did During the Pandemic,” Conference of the Journal of Curriculum Theory, October 2021.
“The Role of Capitalism in Ohio Higher Education” at the Organization of Education Historians Conference, October 2019.
“Historical Challenges in the Development of Ohio Higher Education,” at the Ohio Education Association Conference, March 2019.
“How Ohio Higher Education Helped the State Rust,” at the Southern Historians of Education Conference, March 2019.
“Ohio’s Battle Against Higher Education, 1945-1970,” at the Miami University Graduate Student Forum, November 2018.
“In Memories of a Glorious Past: The Changing Identity of American Liberal Arts Colleges,” at the annual Ohio Valley History Conference, October 21st, 2017.
“The Role of Rest in Leadership: Friends, Focus, and Foundational Growth,” at the annual Collegiate Leadership Conference of Ohio, November 14, 2015.
“Moving into Tomorrow: Trustees and Architecture at Transylvania College, 1950 to 1970,” at the annual Transylvania University Jones Grant Lecture Series, December 1, 2015.
“Selfless Leaders: Sacrifice and Service in Student Life,” at the annual Kentucky Collegiate Leadership Conference, Transylvania University, April 2014.
“Leadership: Selfless and Sacrificial,” at the annual Kentucky Collegiate Leadership Conference, Centre College, April 2013.