Thirty-six faculty members have volunteered to become mentors in the Faculty in Residence Education Program, administered by the Department of Residence Life, for the 2010-11 academic year. The program is a student-success initiative which incorporates faculty mentorship in the residential environment. Faculty-led programs and general faculty involvement in residence halls provide opportunities that foster both intellectual and personal development for students. Research supports that a strong connection between students and faculty outside of the classroom significantly impacts students' success in college.
Faculty mentors collaborate with residence hall staff members to develop and implement programs and interactions ranging from community-building activities to academic and intellectual discussions. Mentors are asked to commit to one hour per week (or four hours per month) and may choose to work solely with first-year students or with all levels of college students (first-year through graduate).
Faculty mentors for 2010-11 are:
College of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Natural Resources
Berlin Nelson and Harlene Hatterman-Valenti, AES plant pathology
David Buchanan, animal sciences
Brenda Deckard, Ed Deckard, Kirk Howatt and Alan Zuk, plant sciences
Amy Ganguli, range science
Jeff Stachler, Extension plant sciences
College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Michael Burns, Kate Gronewold, Amy Miller, Nadene Vevea and Andrea Weber, communication
Linda Fricker, dean’s office, arts, humanities and social sciences
Jo Cavins, English
Carol Cwiak, emergency management
Anne Zmyslinski, mass communication
College of Business
Kay Hopkins and Tim Peterson, business
Chanchai Tangpong, management and marketing
College of Engineering and Architecture
Bakr Aly Ahmed, architecture and landscape architecture
Wei Lin, civil engineering
College of Human Development and Education
Dipra Jha, apparel, design and hospitality management
Larry Napoleon and Anita Welch, School of Education
Florin Salajan, distance and continuing education, School of Education
Sherri Stastny and Greg Gass, health, nutrition and exercise sciences
College of Pharmacy, Nursing, and Allied Sciences
Daniel Friesner, pharmacy practice
College of Science and Mathematics
Jim Coykendall, mathematics
Erin Gillam, Angela Hodgson and Julie Schroer, biological sciences
Rob Gordon and Wendy Gordon, psychology
For more information about the program or how to become a faculty mentor, contact Tammie Reger, at 1-7106 or tammie.reger@ndsu.edu.