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<span style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">Dear Graduate Students, Faculty, and Advisors:</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">The Graduate Division is now <b>accepting nominations for the 2021 Commitment to Graduate Diversity Award</b>. This award celebrates UCR faculty who actively
champion efforts to promote and maintain a diverse and inclusive campus climate, with some focus on our graduate student populations. The recipient will be recognized at the Commencement Ceremony and receive an award plaque. </span><span style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in"> All
UCR ladder-rank faculty members are eligible for the award. </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">Letters of nomination are invited from current and former faculty, and from graduate students. To be considered, a faculty member must receive at least one
letter of nomination. Letters should specifically discuss what makes the nominee an outstanding candidate for the award. <span style="background:white">The committee will take into consideration how the nominee's efforts have either enhanced the diversity
of our graduate students (through outreach, recruitment, mentoring or other efforts), or helped establish our campus as an inclusive environment of belonging for diverse students. </span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">Nominees of previous years will require re-nomination to be considered by this year's committee; prior letters will be included in their new file. </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">Please submit nominations letters no later than <b>Monday April 19, 2021 </b>using either this link: </span><span style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a href="https://form.jotform.com/60695156082964" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">https://form.jotform.com/60695156082964</span></a></span><span style="color:#201F1E;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in"> </span><span style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">or
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Emma Wilson, Ph.D.<br>
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University of California - Riverside</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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