Miller Earns Student Leader of the Month

Jordan Miller’s appearances on Baker University’s Baldwin City campus have been rare this fall as she completes her student teaching and prepares to graduate with majors in English and secondary education. However, the influence of Miller’s years of exemplary work as a student, athlete, and volunteer in the university community is still felt each day and has earned her Baker’s Student Leader of the Month recognition.

A native of Ozawkie, Kansas, and a graduate of Oskaloosa High School, Miller excelled as a member of Baker’s track and field team for four years, balancing her javelin-throwing talents with hard work in the classroom. She was named an NAIA All-American Scholar Athlete in addition to an athletic All-American.

“Jordan distinguished herself by winning a four-year education scholarship,” Miller’s nominator said, “and as an honor society member, she has had two literature papers accepted for presentation at international Sigma Tau Delta [International English Honor Society] conferences in both Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Minneapolis, Minnesota.”

Miller’s work was also published in multiple issues of Baker’s literary arts magazine, Watershed, and she has devoted much of her free time to helping to organize student events such as Read Across America and Hallow-Read with the Education Leadership Club.

Miller has worked as a student assistant in Baker’s Department of Humanities, and summers have found her serving as a leader at an equine program, teaching children with autism to groom, saddle, and ride horses.

“Despite her myriad involvements from scholar to athlete to campus leader to student-worker to volunteer, Jordan Miller has maintained a 4.0 GPA, all while cheerfully exhibiting stellar integrity, enthusiasm, intelligence, and leadership ability,” her nominator said. “Jordan is a joy to know and is a true example of Wildcat excellence and achievement.”