ODU Alumna Wins SCHEV Faculty Award In addition to having a faculty member as a winner of the 2004 Virginia Outstanding Faculty Awards (see previous page), Old Dominion can boast of an alumna among this year’s 11 honorees. Anna Marie Baker (M.S.Ed. ’76), an associate professor of early childhood development at Tidewater Community College’s Portsmouth campus, received one of the prestigious awards, which are co-sponsored by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and TIAA-CREF. Baker, who approaches teaching as both an art and a science, has taught at TCC for 24 years. But she still considers herself as “an emerging teacher of learners.” “I was recently told by Rosalind Frame, fourth-semester TCC student who has attended several colleges in her 35 years of life, that my classes were ‘the most challenging and interesting, yet the most fun classes’ that she has taken on any campus or at any college. These are the meaning-making moments that impact me as a teacher and challenge me to continually connect the learner with the magic of the learning process.”