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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Sent on behalf of Senate Chair Ken Barish and the Graduate Council</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">UCR Senate Town Hall – Future of Doctoral Programs at the UC (In-person)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">The Graduate Council of the UCR Division of the Academic Senate will host an<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b><u>in-person</u> </b>division<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">A link to the Report on the Future of Doctoral Programs at the UC can be found<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/reports/future-of-doctoral-programs-report-2025.pdf" title="https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/reports/future-of-doctoral-programs-report-2025.pdf"><span style="color:#0078D7">here</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Viji Santhakumar, Graduate Council Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Ken Barish, Academic Senate Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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