<div dir="ltr"><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-166b1f7d-7fff-a118-ceec-75ed746a9529"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">Distributed <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">on behalf of Academic Senate Chair Ken Barish </span>via <span class="gmail_default" style="">the </span>Senate and Faculty Scotmail Listservs. Senate faculty may receive this message twice.</font></span></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">August 26, 2026</font></span></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,</font></span></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Senate leadership is aware of UCR's current expired registration status in </span><a href="http://sam.gov" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">SAM.gov</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and is actively engaged with the Office of Research and Economic Development to ensure more frequent regular and timely updates to you up until the registration is reinstated. Both VCRED Torres and AVC Greer met with the Academic Senate Executive Council this past Monday regarding the matter and RED’s planned next steps. Additionally, I have participated in meetings on this matter called by Chancellor Hu. </span></font></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Though updates and additional information are expected to be forthcoming directly to you from RED, I write to inform you that we have asked campus Administrative leadership:</font></span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:72pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">to provide an FAQ document for faculty by Friday, August 28, 2026</font></span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:72pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">to provide instructions to faculty on how faculty can manage their federal grant submissions, renewals, and payments now</font></span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:72pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">to provide information on how this has happened</font></span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:72pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">to convey what RED will do longer term so that something like this does not happen again </font></span></p></li></ul><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Please note that faculty are encouraged to:</font></span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:72pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">send a message</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> to </span><a href="mailto:redalert@ucr.edu" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">redalert@ucr.edu</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> to inquire about the status of your submitted grants and seek guidance on what to do about grants you are currently writing or will soon write.</span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:72pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">inform the Academic Senate Committee on Research (CoR) </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">about their impacted grants so that this can be reported in bulk to RED to be addressed and tracked; and for CoR information and record.  </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please use </span><a href="mailto:senate@ucr.edu" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">senate@ucr.edu</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> with the subject line “</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">SAM.gov</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"> </span>Expiration” for your email message to the Senate.</span></font></p></li></ul><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Best regards,</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Ken Barish, Chair</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">Academic Senate</font></span></p></span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">---------------------</span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(79,129,189)">Cherysa Cortez</span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></font></p>

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