Three NDSU faculty and three doctoral students joined nearly 1,300 minority students, faculty members and education leaders from more than 40 states at the Institute on Teaching and Mentoring in Atlanta Oct. 30-Nov. 2. The goal of the institute is to address the shortage of minority faculty at American colleges and universities.
The NDSU students are all Doctoral Scholars Award recipients through the Southern Regional Education Board, which hosts the institute. The students are Jennifer Odom, plant pathology; Liz Cambron, cellular and molecular biology; and Jamin Ashley, electrical and computer engineering.
The faculty who attended the conference in support of their students were Julie Pasche, assistant professor of plant pathology and Odom's adviser; Kendra Greenlee, assistant professor of biological sciences and Cambron's adviser; and Samee Khan, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and Ashley's adviser.
The annual institute offers strategies for how to be successful in graduate school and as new faculty members. Sessions are held on topics ranging from how to get published to guidelines to be a good mentor.
The Southern Regional Education Board was established in 1993. The program has worked with more than 1,130 doctoral scholars and 650 graduates. It provides students with multiple layers of support, including mentoring, counseling and advocacy, financial assistance, research funding, career counseling and early career support.
NDSU is recognized as one of the nation's top 108 public and private universities by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.