Hugh Potter Baker was a graduate of the Michigan State College of Agriculture

Michigan State University

Michigan State University is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Act.MSU pioneered the studies of packaging,...

; Yale's School of Forestry

Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies is one of the graduate professional schools of Yale University. Founded to train foresters, it now trains leaders and creates new knowledge that will sustain and restore the health of the biosphere and the well-being of its people...

 (M.F., 1904); and the University of Munich (Ph.D., Economics, 1910). He was the second and fourth Dean of the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University

History of the New York State College of Forestry

The New York State College of Forestry, the first professional school of forestry in North America, opened its doors at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, in the autumn of 1898. After just a few years of operation, it was defunded in 1903, by Governor Benjamin B. Odell, in response to public...

, from 1912–20 and 1930–33.

Baker previously had worked with Gifford Pinchot

Gifford Pinchot

Gifford Pinchot was the first Chief of the United States Forest Service and the 28th Governor of Pennsylvania...

 at the United States Bureau of Forestry and Forest Service

United States Forest Service

The United States Forest Service is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 155 national forests and 20 national grasslands, which encompass...

 (1901–04). Immediately before coming to Syracuse, Baker was Professor of Forestry at the Pennsylvania State College

Pennsylvania State University

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After his second stint as Dean of the College of Forestry, Baker went on to become President of the University of Massachusetts

University of Massachusetts

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(1933–47).