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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear Campus Community:
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The message below is being sent by UCR’s Accreditation Liaison Officer on behalf of our accreditor, the WASC Senior College and University Commission. More information
about UCR’s upcoming accreditation visit can be found </span></i><a href="https://wasc.ucr.edu/2022-wscuc-special-visit"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">here</span></i></a><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The University of California, Riverside is hosting a remote review by the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC) on February 10-11, 2022 in connection
with its accreditation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">WSCUC understands that not everyone who may wish to participate can be invited to or attend scheduled remote meetings and has therefore established a confidential email account
to give everyone the opportunity to communicate with the team.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The email account is created by WSCUC and only authorized WSCUC staff and team members have access to the emails submitted. The emails are not viewed by any representative
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The email account is created for this review only and will be closed once the interview sessions are completed. Only comments made before or during the review will
be considered as part of the review process. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Institutional stakeholders are invited to provide comments on issues of academic rigor and consistency, availability of student support services, accuracy of information
provided by the institution, and other matters related to the quality of the educational experience or the operational effectiveness of the institution.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Institutional reports, remote interviews with groups and individuals, and email comments become part of the information collected and reviewed by the team. If the
team chooses to include information derived from confidential emails as a part of its findings in the team report, the information will be presented to keep the author’s identity confidential. Please note that team members will not respond individually to
comments provided through the confidential email account. However, the input from comments, along with other forms of information, will be considered as the team undertakes its work and develops recommendations to the institution.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The team is not able to meet individually with members of the campus community, so please do not use the email account to request private appointments.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">To write to the
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team, please address your email to: <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="mailto:ucr@wscuc.org"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">ucr@wscuc.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">
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