Tiffany Baffour, Higher Education

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Tiffany Baffour's Bio:

Professional goals include capacity-building to support institutional change and development in public higher education. Dr. Tiffany Baffour is Director of The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and Associate Professor of Social Work at Winston-Salem State University. In her full-time administrative role, she provides comprehensive leadership for the University's faculty development and distance learning programming efforts. At WSSU, she also served as Department Chair of Behavioral Sciences & Social Work, from 2010-2012. She is an advocate for quality and accessible public higher education systems. Baffour has taught at Florida State, University of Maryland, University of Missouri-Columbia, Howard University, James Madison University and Winston-Salem State University. An accomplished researcher of health, social and racial justice issues, Baffour has led recent efforts as principal research investigator of an evaluation to examine the effectiveness of a community-based intervention aimed at ameliorating health disparities and senior researcher of a state-wide evaluation of Disproportionate Minority Contact within the NC juvenile justice system. She received her Ph.D. in Social Work from Howard University; Master of Arts degree in Sociology from the University of Delaware; Master of Social Service Degree (accredited Master of Social Work program) from Bryn Mawr College and Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from New Jersey City University. Dr. Baffour has written widely and offered juried presentations on the application of Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR) as a means for the improvement of health and social disparities in low wealth communities. Her research interests are violence prevention, restorative justice theory, mental health, health disparities, and gender issues. She has diverse experience as program developer, therapist and social worker with juvenile offenders, children, and adults with mental health and substance abuse vulnerabilities.

Tiffany Baffour's Experience:

Chairperson, Department of Behavioral Sciences & Social Work at Winston-Salem State University
July 2010 - August 2012
Served an adminstrative role as Chair of large inter-disciplinary (psychology, sociology, social work and gerontology) department of approximately 25 full-time faculty and 15 part-time faculty. Student enrollment for combined disciplines totaled about 700. Provided leadership and oversight of faculty and academic programs aimed to attract evening/weekend, distance learning and traditional students.
Assistant Professor at University of Maryland Baltimore County
August 2006 - May 2010
Taught classes on social policy, technology in human services and field education. Conducted research and submitted manucripts on key topics involving social justice and racial and health disparities.
Assistant Professor at Florida State University
August 2003 - August 2006
Taught graduate and undergraduate courses on research, women's issues and field education. Served as Co-PI/ Project Director on NIH grant (sub-contract of FAMU/Harvard Project Export Grant. Served on various University-wide and College-level committees.
Director, Center for Teaching and Learning at Winston-Salem State University
August 2012
Responsible for creating institutional structure for combining and coordinating University-wide efforts for faculty professional development and distance learning. Duties include oversight of personnel, communication of policies and procedures and oversight of all workshop and training activities. Coordinating efforts include working with academic departments and support areas to support faculty excellence.
Associate Professor at Winston-Salem State University
July 2010
Taught upper-division classes on social work practice, policy and professional development. Developed grant proposals as team lead with Trans-disciplinary group of faculty. Most successful effort resulted in award to University's Center for Community Safety to conduct a state-wide assessment of disproportionate minority contact (dmc) in the juvenile justice system. This effort lead to inter-face with state and national policy makers aimed at reducing dmc.

Tiffany Baffour's Education:

Howard University
1999 – 2003
P.hD.
Bryn Mawr College
1997 – 1999
Master of Social Service (accredited MSW)
Concentration: Practice with individuals, families and groups
University of Delaware
1992 – 1997
Master of Arts (M.A.)
Concentration: Sociology
New Jersey City University
1988 – 1992
B.A. in Political Science

Tiffany Baffour's Interests & Activities:

evidence-based pedagogy; academic-community partnerships; community-based participatory research; health advocacy; evidence-based violence prevention interventions; public health social work

Tiffany Baffour

College Administrator & Associate Professor | Higher Education

Hi, I'm Tiffany Baffour. Welcome to my profile!

Tiffany Baffour's Bio:

Tiffany Baffour's Experience:

Chairperson, Department of Behavioral Sciences & Social Work at Winston-Salem State University

Assistant Professor at University of Maryland Baltimore County

Assistant Professor at Florida State University

Director, Center for Teaching and Learning at Winston-Salem State University

Associate Professor at Winston-Salem State University

Tiffany Baffour's Education:

Howard University

Bryn Mawr College

University of Delaware

New Jersey City University

Tiffany Baffour's Interests & Activities: