Jacquie Scott Lynch

Dr. Jacquie Scott Lynch is a Teaching Professor and Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett, the Honors College.

Since joining the Barrett faculty in 2001, Professor Scott has specialized in teaching Barrett's signature interdisciplinary seminars, The Human Event and The History of Ideas, which explore major foundations of human thought and creative expression from antiquity to the present. She teaches the honors creative writing seminars Writing about Self and Place and Screenwriting 101 for All Majors and offers special topics courses that explore diversity, inclusion, and belonging in modern literature.

Professor Scott's thirty years of administrative leadership experience include chairing the Barrett Honors Faculty and directing the Barrett Faculty Mentoring Program for Teaching Excellence, a program she established in 2006 to help ensure the success of faculty new to teaching honors seminars at ASU. She managed the credit-bearing curriculum and faculty for Barrett's Center for Personal Development as its inaugural Assistant Director from 2019-2021. In her appointment as a Dean's Fellow for the Lorraine W. Frank Office of National Scholarship Advisement, she innovated ASU's platforms for mentoring students applying for nationally-competed scholarships such as Fulbright English Teaching Assistantships, Fulbright Killam Fellowships, and Undergraduate Fulbright UK Summer Institute Scholarships. Supported by an Arizona Board of Regents Learner-Centered Education Grant, she founded the Barrett Writing Center, a student success resource that is celebrating its 20th year. She represented faculty on the executive committee that designed Barrett's nine-acre, 140 million dollar Tempe campus. Before joining Barrett, she managed the business operations for ASU's Department of English, ran an ophthalmology practice, and worked as an advertising manager at Boston Magazine.

An advocate of undergraduate study abroad, she has taught thirteen Barrett educational travel programs, and she and her husband fund a Travel Scholarship for Barrett students. In 2017-18 she joined ASU's Leadership Academy and led a cohort of 30 ASU faculty through ASU's inaugural Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) Effective Teaching Practices curriculum.

Professor Scott has received the ASU Provost's Award for Excellence in Classroom Performance, the ASU Faculty Women’s Association Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, the Outstanding Achievement and Contribution Award from the ASU Commission on the Status of Women, and the Associated Students of ASU Centennial Professorship for her support of undergraduate student success. She is a six-time Devils' Advocates "Apple Polisher" Faculty Appreciation honoree and a two-time winner of Barrett's Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching.