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<i>Sent on behalf of Senate Chair Ken Barish and the Graduate Council</i></div>
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<b>UCR Senate Town Hall – Future of Doctoral Programs at the UC (In-person)</b></div>
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Dear Colleagues,</div>
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The Graduate Council of the UCR Division of the Academic Senate will host an <b><u>in-person</u> </b>division
<b>Town Hall on the Future of Doctoral Programs at the UC on Tuesday, May 27, 2025, from 2:00 - 4:00 PM in Winston Chung Hall (WCH) 205/206</b>. This will be an opportunity to hear from faculty and student speakers representing various colleges, disciplines,
and interdisciplinary programs on the pressing concerns facing UCR's graduate programs and the applicability/limitations of the issues laid out in the UC Report on Future of Doctoral Programs for UCR. The goal of the Town Hall is for faculty to collectively begin
discussions to ensure that there are plans in place to address the unique challenges we face at UCR as well as those in common with other UC campuses. It is anticipated that the forum will provide a venue to guide plans for the future of graduate education
at UCR with appropriate consideration of discipline specific needs and in alignment with the educational, research and scholastic missions of UCR. </div>
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A link to the Report on the Future of Doctoral Programs at the UC can be found <a href="https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/reports/future-of-doctoral-programs-report-2025.pdf" id="OWA99c84e92-9cc1-e5e4-512a-764da37e6e09" class="x_OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0" title="https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/reports/future-of-doctoral-programs-report-2025.pdf" data-linkindex="0" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin: 0px;">
here</a>. </div>
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Best Regards,</div>
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Viji Santhakumar, Graduate Council Chair</div>
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Ken Barish, Academic Senate Chair</div>
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