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<div>Greetings Agvisors - below is Dean Burgess’ message to all CALS students along with action items. Please speak up and voice concerns whether yours or as an advocate to students and peers. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">UA Clicks and welcome event (part 2 of orientation) is the message reminder from the Dean to all: “<i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I have zero tolerance for discrimination of any kind,
at any time and in any place. We will have 100% fairness, equity, and inclusion.” </i></div>
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<div dir="ltr">Be well, </div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">Senior Director, Advising and Student Services</div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">UA College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Office of Career & Academic Services</div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">Forbes Room 203 | PO Box 210036 |Tucson, AZ 85721-0036</div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">Phone: (520) 621-3616 | Fax: (520) 621-8662</div>
<div style="direction: ltr;">Website: cals.arizona.edu/students/advising</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">To schedule an appointment call (520) 621-3616</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 5, 2020 9:04 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> cals-students-undergraduate@list.arizona.edu; cals-students-graduate@list.arizona.edu<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Schuch, Ursula K - (uschuch); Staten, Michael E - (statenm); Antin, Parker B - (pba); Limesand, Kirsten H - (limesank); Hunt, James E - (jeh); Rodriguez Lorta, Nancy G - (nancyr)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Enough is Enough
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Dear CALS undergraduate and graduate students,<br>
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It has been far too long--nearly three months--since I saw your faces and heard your voices in the classrooms, hallways, laboratories and common areas of our college. You have been in my thoughts almost constantly since the university moved its classrooms online.
I miss your energy and enthusiasm. And I know this change has brought on incredible academic and personal challenges for you.</div>
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Now, all of us at the University of Arizona and across the country, and the world, have come face-to-face again with an abhorrent reality of racism. It is long past time that we faced up to it as individuals and as a society.</div>
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George Floyd's death while in police custody on May 25 in Minneapolis is the latest of thousands of unacceptable tragedies for Black lives over hundreds of years. All of these lives mattered. Since the video of Mr. Floyd's desperate pleas to breathe became
public, like you I have been horrified, angry, fearful, felt helpless, frustrated, and sorrowful.</div>
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People living in free and equitable societies do not plead to breathe. They do not fear walking on a street because of their skin color. I cannot imagine what it must be like to fear for my son's safety, or even life, were he to be pulled over by a police officer.
But my friends imagine it every time their sons are driving because they have Black skin. They can imagine it vividly because they have dealt with it personally as Black men. Not having to fear about this is one of my white privileges.</div>
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While I learned this from my friends, I also learned that I will never fully understand their experience of daily life in our nation. But this will not stop me from making a choice and I choose to stand wholly with them against racial discrimination by police
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I believe it is simply unacceptable that anyone face prejudice, injustice, lack of hope, physical or mental abuse, or die
<i>simply because of how they look</i>. I support and stand with everyone who exercises their democratic right to say "enough is enough, now!"</div>
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Every August we hold your college's first year student orientation. I hope you were there when you were a recent high school graduate, or transferring from community college, or back from serving in our military, or making any other change in life. I want to
remind you of the single most important thing I said then:</div>
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<i>I have zero tolerance for discrimination of any kind, at any time and in any place. We will have 100% fairness, equity, and inclusion.</i></div>
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This is absolute and unambiguous.</div>
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Your college will be a place where you can pursue your academic goals and grow in your personal lives without fear of anything, and certainly not discrimination or physical safety. Injustice, inequality and any and every form of prejudice and discrimination
have no place here. Together we must accept nothing less than actively promoting and introducing processes to achieve fairness, inclusiveness, diversity, equality, and equity for everyone.</div>
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When you come back to campus, I want you to know that every face you see--our faculty, staff, fellow students, and especially mine--is fully committed to inclusivity and respect. If you are not feeling at peace, are scared, are not feeling seen or heard, or
not feeling protected, or feeling coerced, or if you are verbally or physically attacked,
<i>I want to know about it.</i></div>
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I want to hear you, and I will immediate take every action I can to remedy your situation.</div>
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On June 1, I sent a similar message to all College personnel: <a href="https://alvsce.arizona.edu/sites/alvsce.arizona.edu/files/1june2020.pdf" id="LPlnk839482">
https://alvsce.arizona.edu/sites/alvsce.arizona.edu/files/1june2020.pdf</a></div>
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Please take advantage of the University of Arizona’s resources available for you to express your concerns or share your thoughts:
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<li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt"><a href="https://equity.arizona.edu/" title="https://equity.arizona.edu/">Office of Institutional Equity</a></span></li><li><a href="https://aasa.arizona.edu/" title="https://aasa.arizona.edu/">African American Student Affairs</a></li><li><a href="https://health.arizona.edu/counseling-psych-services" title="https://health.arizona.edu/counseling-psych-services">Counseling and Psych Services</a></li><li><a href="https://deanofstudents.arizona.edu/support/student-assistance" title="https://deanofstudents.arizona.edu/support/student-assistance">Dean of Students Office</a></li></ul>
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<div>Contact me personally directly at <a href="mailto:sburgess@cals.arizona.edu" title="mailto:sburgess@cals.arizona.edu">
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<div><b>To hear you, I will hold two town halls.</b></div>
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<div><b><span style="color:rgb(200,38,19)">UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS at 12-1 p.m. on Monday, June 8</span>
</b><a href="https://arizona.zoom.us/j/96405846917" id="LPNoLP839364">https://arizona.zoom.us/j/96405846917</a></div>
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<div><span style="color:rgb(200,38,19)"><b>GRADUATE STUDENTS at 1-2 p.m. on Monday, June 8</b></span>
<a href="https://arizona.zoom.us/j/98667613779" id="LPNoLP726018">https://arizona.zoom.us/j/98667613779</a></div>
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<div>I have requested that our Diversity & Inclusion Council immediately act on your needs. There will be safe spaces to discuss your issues and for us all to learn. There will be separate events for graduate students, undergraduate students, and employees
who identify as part of the African American community and for those of us who are allies.</div>
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<div>More information about these forums will be distributed early next week. Please contact Dr. Ursula Schuch, Special Assistant to the Vice President, Diversity and Inclusiveness,
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uschuch@email.arizona.edu</a> if you have input on how our Diversity & Inclusion Council can best help you.</div>
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<div>Sincerely,</div>
<div>Shane C. Burgess</div>
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<div><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#0C234B">Shane C. Burgess</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#767676"><br>
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Office: 520-621-7621<br>
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