<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-3a8c599c-7fff-742c-880e-b50fda3ca82c"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Dear Colleagues,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We are excited to announce that the inaugural meeting of the XR Future Faculty Forum (F3) will take place at this year's IEEE ISMAR conference in Sydney, Australia. Read on, or head to <a href="https://ismar23.org/program-future-faculty-forum">https://ismar23.org/program-future-faculty-forum</a> for more details about this new academic professional community!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">This Forum aims to foster a vibrant community of scholars and educators who are eager to collaborate, learn, and advance together toward or in an academic career in the rapidly evolving field of immersive technologies. Forum meetings will be a means to introduce students who are curious about an academic career. And, Forum meetings will be a venue where colleagues can reconnect and collaboratively develop future generations of academic researchers.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The ISMAR XR F3 meeting will feature panels of professors discussing various aspects of professorship, including tenure, organizing a research program, teaching, and professional service, and more generally what aspects of their profession they really like and dislike, and why. Additionally, the Forum will include “speed advising” sessions in which students will be able to have several short advising sessions with current faculty. In these sessions, attendees will have the opportunity to ask more specific questions pertaining to a particular professor's experience while learning from a breadth of experiences. The panels and speed advising sessions will feature diverse faculty to provide attendees with various perspectives on the meaning of, success within, and preparation for professorship. Throughout the forum, there will be an emphasis on creating and sustaining an academic environment that is diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">There will also be a social event after the forum where conversation can continue in an informal and fun setting!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">If you are interested in volunteering or attending the ISMAR 2023 Forum, head to the website and fill out one of the forms linked there! <a href="https://ismar23.org/program-future-faculty-forum">https://ismar23.org/program-future-faculty-forum</a></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">And please spread the word! Send this to the professors you know who can share their wisdom, and send this to students and researchers who are curious about becoming professors!</span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div>Contact: <a href="mailto:futurefacultyforum@gmail.com">futurefacultyforum@gmail.com</a>.<br><br>Organizers<br>Matt Gottsacker<br>Cassidy R. Nelson<br>Niall L. Williams<br>Gregory F. Welch<br>Joseph L. Gabbard<br></div></div>