Susan T. Dennison has a MSW degree and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work at UNCG where she has been on faculty for 20 years. She has an active teaching and research program at UNCG with external funding at both the state and foundation levels. Susan's expertise, teaching, and research have focused on group work for the past 30 years resulting in nine books along with numerous articles. She ran a national group consulting company and presented at both national and international conferences on group work. Susan was an ongoing consultant and trainer for the UNCG Faculty Mentoring Program. As a result of her work on this mentoring project, she co-authored an article and… presented at Lilly South. Susan has come to believe that faculty mentoring programs can not only effectively retain minority faculty but change the entire culture of a university.