Stacy Ybarra

Stacy Ybarra Evans is a 2022 Ricardo Salinas Aspen Fellow first generation Latina from the Southside of San Antonio. She currently serves as the Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Our Lady of the Lake University. She works to develop students' academic skills as a first-year seminar instructor at San Antonio College of the Alamo Colleges District where she worked for 20 years. During her tenure at ACD, she received the Starfish award as a college advisor at Palo Alto College. She is also a current researcher with the Texas Association of Community Colleges helping analyze focus group information on guided pathways, basic student needs and teaching and learning practices. As a contractor with Quality Matters, the leading organization in instructional design standards, she has led teams nationally to get online courses approved. As an ACUE facilitator she works to encourage new teaching practices at San Antonio College from 2021 to present. She graduated from Palo Alto College with an associate degree, Texas A&M University - San Antonio for her bachelor's and master’s degree and Capella University where she conferred her doctorate degree in 2019. She has also brought her voice to bring attention to gender diversity in leadership by participating in leadership programs such as the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber’s Latina Leadership Institute, Leadership SAISD and South San Antonio Chamber’s City South Leadership program.

Publications

Empowering Faculty Vitality and Mitigating Burnout Through Generative AI in Higher Education: Reimagining Learning Environments With Generative AI
Empowering Faculty Vitality and Mitigating Burnout Through Generative AI in Higher Education: Reimagining Learning Environments With Generative AI
Stacy Ybarra. © 2024. 28 pages.
In today's dynamic landscape of higher education, the pervasive issue of faculty burnout has emerged as a pressing concern, casting a shadow over the well-being of educators...