Mentoring can play a pivotal role in supporting faculty members’ success, job satisfaction, and career advancement. However, developing and maintaining successful mentoring programs can be challenging! This discussion panel will highlight how three universities have created and sustained successful mentoring programs on their campuses.
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Columbia University is an institutional member of the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD). The NCFDD is a nationally-recognized independent organization dedicated to supporting faculty, particularly under-represented faculty, post-docs, and graduate students in making successful transitions throughout their careers.
About the panelists:
Dr. Chelsea Chandler is the Director of the Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE) at Bowling Green State University. Chelsea is an experienced educator whose expertise lies at the intersections of teaching, learning, and curriculum design. As the Director of the CFE, Chelsea supports holistic faculty development through programming and resources related to teaching, learning, and scholarship. Since Chelsea joined the CFE, she has collaborated with faculty and college administrators to develop and implement mentoring opportunities for early and mid-career faculty.
Dr. Zúñiga is professor in the School of Social Work at San Diego State University (SDSU). She serves as the Campus Director of the SDSU-UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Interdisciplinary Research on Substance Use. She Co-Principal Investigator and Faculty Development Core Director of the SDSU FUERTE Program, (Faculty United towards Excellence in Research and Transformational Engagement). Trained as an epidemiologist, she is a public health researcher with over 20 years of experience in community-based participatory research with communities impacted by migration and communities in the U.S.-Mexico border region. Over the last 20 years Dr. Zúñiga has mentored over 44 junior faculty, 32 (73%) of whom are underrepresented in health-related research; 43 PhD students, 23 of whom are underrepresented; and nine post-doctoral fellows, six from underrepresented groups. Her own background as a Latinx faculty and researcher and over 20 years of experience as a mentor to underrepresented junior faculty gives her an in-depth understanding of how to lead system-level efforts to support scientific workforce diversity.
Dr. Luna Lu is the Reilly Professor of the Lyles School of Civil Engineering, associate dean of faculty at the College of Engineering, and founding director of the Center for Intelligent Infrastructure (CII) at Purdue University. Prof. Lu is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Science. Dr. Lu has extensive research expertise in concrete, NDT and sensing technologies and structure sensing and monitoring. Her work has garnered many scientific awards, including the 2014 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, 2019 Purdue Faculty Scholar, 2020 Vebleo Scientist Award, 2021 ASCE Gamechanger, 2022 ASCE Alfred Noble Prize, 2023 TIME’s best invention, and 2024 Edison Award- gold place. She also is the founder and CEO of Wavelogix Inc.
