TITLE: Recognizing Isabel Baca for receiving a 2017 Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award.

SUMMARY: Recognizing Isabel Baca for receiving a 2017 Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award.

FULL TEXT:
WHEREAS, The Senate of the State of Texas is pleased to recognize Dr. Isabel Baca, who has been honored with a 2017 Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award by The University of Texas Board of Regents; and WHEREAS, Established in 2008, the Regents' Outstanding Teaching Awards recognize faculty members in The University of Texas System who have demonstrated extraordinary classroom performance and innovation in undergraduate instruction; and WHEREAS, Dr. Baca is an associate professor of English at The University of Texas at El Paso, where she serves as an instructor in the Rhetoric and Writing Studies Program and as the director of the Undergraduate Bilingual Professional Writing certificate program; and WHEREAS, Her bicultural upbringing helped shape her professional interests, and she has built a rewarding career with a focus on community writing, bilingual professional writing, and service learning; and WHEREAS, Dr. Baca is a community-engaged scholar who has worked with more than 25 area nonprofits through her work at the university; these partnerships enable students to apply their knowledge in beneficial real-world settings as writers, translators, researchers, website developers, and social media platform developers; and WHEREAS, A highly respected mentor and academic, Dr. Baca regularly presents at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, and she has received numerous accolades for excellence in her profession; she is truly deserving of recognition for her exemplary accomplishments; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, That the Senate of the State of Texas, 85th Legislature, 1st Called Session, hereby commend Dr. Isabel Baca for her outstanding contributions to higher education and congratulate her on receiving a 2017 Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award; and, be it further RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be prepared for her as an expression of esteem from the Texas Senate. Rodr guez President of the Senate I hereby certify that the above Resolution was adopted by the Senate on August 14, 2017.