Four faculty members who have reached full professor status will lead a panel discussion during lunch on Tuesday, May 4, in the Memorial Union Hidatsa room. Virginia Sublett, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; Dinesh Katti, College of Engineering and Architecture; Michael Robinson, College of Science and Mathematics; and Marion Harris, College of Agriculture, Food Systems and Natural Resources, will discuss their perspectives and experiences of the promotion process. Robinson and Sublett are among the most recent group of NDSU faculty to be promoted to full professor.

To register, go to www.ndsu.edu/FORWARD.

This event is the first in a series aimed at encouraging and assisting associate professors as they prepare for promotion. The panelists are drawn from different colleges and will describe different paths to success in various disciplines.

This series of events is part of ADVANCE FORWARD’s mid-career mentoring program and the PROMOTE program funded by an ADVANCE PAID grant. The National Science Foundation ADVANCE PAID grant involves a group of states led by Utah State University in partnership with Kansas State University, New Mexico State, University of Kansas, University of Idaho, Oregon State University and NDSU.

Dana Britton, a Kansas State University faculty member involved in the PROMOTE program, was on campus last semester to conduct interviews and focus groups for the research phase of the project. "PROMOTE proposes to both increase our understanding of the transition from associate to full professor and to address the difficulties women face through an interview study and an implementation phase," Britton said.