-: I like the students most.
That's what I love about UNA.
I love working with students
and knowing that every day
hopefully I'm not only impacting their lives,
but the lives of the children
that they're going to come into contact with,
that they're going to teach
as they go out all across the country
and know that hopefully
that I've had a little bit of a role in that.
The most fun part about working here at UNA
I would still say is the students
because every day is different.
Every day is something where you see the students are going,
that you're gonna see where they
are so excited about something that they have excelled in,
but then also you get to see the challenges
that they come across.
You get to be a part of working with them
and helping them through the challenges
and answering questions and advising students
and advising is an important role
of being a professor as well.
So going back to that professors need to excel in research
and service and then also their teaching,
one of the challenges is that balance
between all three of those
and also knowing that you'll go up for tenure and promotion
and while those are exciting experiences
and things that you look forward to,
that's also one of your biggest challenges
and it's where you really have
to set yourself up for success
by doing all that you can
to show why you should be promoted at that campus level
and so that's something that you want for yourself
as a professor is to be able to move up through the ranks
of whether assistant professor to associate professor
to full professor and that's the rank that I'm at right now
is at the full professor level.