MSU’s Baker now leads university’s First-Year Experience program

Contact: Harriet Laird

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State’s Hannah Baker is the new director of the university’s First-Year Experience program.

Baker enters the role after more than four years as academic coordinator in the College of Education’s Department of Teacher Education and Leadership. As First-Year Experience leader, she is overseeing the expansion of FYE 1003, a new three-hour course for freshmen students designed to enrich their connections to the 147-year-old land-grant institution.

“Connecting students to each other is also a major goal of this program, and Hannah is the perfect person to help expand and improve the solid foundation Mississippi State has established in First-Year Experience. Her impressive skillset will help us advance all of our work in student success across campus,” said Eric Moyen, MSU assistant vice president for Student Success.

Baker previously served the university from 2016-2017 as assistant director of marketing for MSU Athletics before a three-year stint with the University of Oklahoma. She holds an MSU bachelor’s degree in kinesiology and a master’s in adult and higher education from OU.

This fall, FYE courses will increase from 35 sections last fall to at least 50 classes, enrolling a large number of MSU’s incoming freshman cohort. Registration for FYE classes may be completed in the same manner as traditional courses.

“These classes are specifically about Mississippi State and how students can make the most of their experience here,” Moyen added.

For more information on the FYE program, visit studentsuccess.msstate.edu/services/first-year-experience, email studentsuccess@msstate.edu or call 662-325-2957.

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