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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Sent on behalf of Academic Senate Chair Ken Barish<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Please find attached Academic Council Vice Chair Ahmet Palazoglu’s April 22, 2025 announcement about the formation of a new systemwide Academic Senate Task Force on UC Adaptation
to Disruptions (UCAD). Delay in distributing this letter was an inadvertent oversight.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">To quote the attached, this<i> “task force was established by the Academic Council in recognition of the need to proactively consider how the University can uphold its teaching,
research, and public service missions in the face of potentially severe and unpredictable external disruptions…UCAD’s goal is to develop response strategies that safeguard the University’s core functions amid federal executive actions, shifting partnerships
with federal and state governments, and other changes in the higher education landscape”.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">The link to the Academic Senate Task Force on UC Adaptation to Disruptions (UCAD) webpage is
<a href="https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/committees/ucad.html">here</a>. I encourage faculty to submit input or questions to the task force via
<a href="mailto:AcademicSenateUCAD@ucop.edu" target="_blank">AcademicSenateUCAD@ucop.edu</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Many thanks to Senate colleagues who were able to attend this week’s town hall.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Ken Barish, Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Academic Senate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#F1AB00">__________________________</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#4F81BD">Cherysa Cortez</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#4F81BD">Executive Director, Academic Senate</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#4F81BD">University Office Building 221</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:cherysac@ucr.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:blue">cherysac@ucr.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#4F81BD"> </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#4F81BD;letter-spacing:2.0pt">UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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