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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Dear Colleagues, </span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#333333">Pursuant to</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><a href="http://policy.ucop.edu/manuals/smg-hr-policies.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:#333333;text-decoration:none">
</span><span style="color:#003399">Regents Policy 7702 ‒ Performance Management Review Process</span></a><span style="color:#333333">, a</span><span style="color:black"> senior leadership development assessment of all Senior Management Group (SMG) members is
required every five years. I am writing to review the accomplishments of Rodolfo Torres, who has served as Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development since 2019. You may view more information about the process, as well as his self-assessment materials,
at <a href="https://chancellor.ucr.edu/senior-leadership-development-assessments" target="_blank">
https://chancellor.ucr.edu/senior-leadership-development-assessments</a>. </span>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">I would appreciate your thoughts and comments via
</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><a href="https://ucriverside.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4VnFVVfN32O7rBs" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">this confidential online form</span></a><i><span style="color:black">.</span></i><span style="color:black">
Please comment specifically on Vice Chancellor Torres’ leadership, vision, and skills, either internally to his unit and/or as a campus senior administrator. This can include strengths and areas for development, as well as any specific challenges you observe
his areas of responsibility facing in the coming years and your advice on confronting these challenges and providing leadership in the future. Your response will be shared with the confidential review committee, and be held in strict confidence, in conformity
with the </span><a href="https://documents.ucr.edu/HR-Resources/pm-5-year-review-procedures.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">Senior Leadership Development Assessment Procedures</span></a><span style="color:black">.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">This is also an important time to remind the campus community of the regular avenues to report concerns or to provide feedback, including the annual review process and</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><a href="https://help.ucr.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">
</span><span style="color:#1155CC">https://help.ucr.edu/</span></a><span style="color:black">. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">If you have any questions about this request, please contact Beth Claassen Thrush at
</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:purple"><a href="mailto:smg_review@ucr.edu" target="_blank">smg_review@ucr.edu</a></span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">. I hope to receive your response by
<b>November 22</b>. Thank you for your participation. </span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Sincerely,</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:4.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Kim A. Wilcox, Chancellor</span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Confidentiality of Evaluative Responses</span></b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Contributors are highly encouraged to provide their name and institutional affiliation with the feedback to provide context, and the University of California will strive
to keep your name and institutional affiliation confidential to the extent permitted by university policy and/or applicable state and federal law. In order to keep their identity confidential, contributors may want to avoid putting information in the body
of their responses that would identify them. </span><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:8.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">If contributors choose to remain anonymous when providing feedback, it may not be possible to follow up or take action on specific concerns. Anonymous responses will be
shared with the supervisor, but not the review committee.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
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