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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">September 19, 2023</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;text-indent:-.1pt"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Dear Colleagues,</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;text-indent:-.1pt"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Welcome to a new academic year.</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;text-indent:-.1pt"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">The Academic Senate of the University of California is one of the most influential faculty governments in the world. Our Senate is empowered to exercise direct
control of the University’s academic mission. We advise on all other matters crucial to the operation of the University such as academic personnel evaluation and promotion, budget, hiring, admissions, and long-range planning. Our system is unique in that the
Senate is indeed (or at least is committed to) an equal partner in </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><a href="https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/governance/bylaws/bl40.html"><span style="color:#1155CC">shared governance</span></a><span style="color:black">,
both on our campus (Riverside Division) and the systemwide UC (Academic Council).</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;text-indent:-.1pt"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><a href="https://senate.ucr.edu/committees"><span style="color:#1155CC">Our Senate</span></a><span style="color:black">, with 26 standing committees and Faculty Executive
Committees for the seven Schools and Colleges, are ready to start a new year, which promises to present several critical issues to our campus as we continue to both build and explore the new landscape of instruction and research brought on by on-line instruction,
generative AI, graduate education, IT restructuring, and their impact on the faculty upholding the core instruction and research mission of the university. We look forward to working together to chart our way forward. Our Senate will be as robust as we hear
and speak the voice of our membership of more than 1,200 senate faculty. I look forward to hearing from you. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;text-indent:-.1pt"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Finally, I hope all of you will plan to attend the in person Fall Divisional Meeting of the Academic Senate on December 5, 2023, starting at 1:00 pm, in Room
110A of the Genomics Auditorium.</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;text-indent:-.1pt"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Sincerely, </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;text-indent:-.1pt"><i><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Sang-Hee Lee</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="margin:0in;text-indent:-.1pt"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Chair of the Riverside Division of the Academic Senate</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;text-indent:-.1pt"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Professor, Department of Anthropology</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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