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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Many friends and family and students we know are facing tremendous financial hardships now. A few have experienced the loss of a loved one from COVID-19; some are
now experiencing the loss of loved ones as normal medical care is not functioning as usual. Our staff and faculty are fearful for their future. People have told me they feel things are being done to them and they will not be able to contribute to making our
immediate future better for themselves and their colleagues, the way they know how.</span></div>
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I have five important messages today:</div>
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<div style=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">1) If you are scared to speak out because you
fear retaliation, please do not be. Speak directly to me, your unit heads, <a href="mailto:mclainj@email.arizona.edu" title="mailto:mclainj@email.arizona.edu">
Jeannie McLain</a>, <a href="mailto:jmratje@email.arizona.edu" title="mailto:jmratje@email.arizona.edu">
Jeffrey Ratje</a> or a <a href="https://compass.arizona.edu/faculty-council" title="https://compass.arizona.edu/faculty-council">
Faculty Councilor</a> about your concerns. You will not be retaliated against.</span></div>
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<div style=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">2) You may speak out anonymously at
<a href="https://businessaffairs.arizona.edu/financial-taskforce/get-involved" title="https://businessaffairs.arizona.edu/financial-taskforce/get-involved">
the UA</a> and you can use <a href="https://compass.arizona.edu/grapevine" title="https://compass.arizona.edu/grapevine">
Grapevine</a> in our enterprise.</span></div>
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<div style=""><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">3) I know you have good ideas to address your serious concerns. Please get these to me, your unit head, Jeannie McLain, Jeffrey Ratje, onto Grapevine
or to a Faculty Council member.</span><br>
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<li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Just because you are a staff member, you are
<b>not</b> automatically a soft target to layoff;</span></li><li>Just because you are a career track faculty member, or any other kind of teacher, who is not on a tenure track you are
<b>not</b> automatically a soft target to layoff;</li><li>Just because you are a not-yet tenured or not-yet continuing status faculty member, you are
<b>not</b> automatically a soft target to layoff.</li></ul>
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In the past, I have seen people in administrative positions say, "look to your left, look to your right - this is so bad that two of you will not be here soon".</div>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Instead, I ask you again today to look at your friends and close work colleagues, look at your families, and join me in working to ensure we are all here tomorrow.
We have a revenue crisis and we need you here to contribute for each other as only you can. This will be hard. But know that no matter how bad it actually is, only you can make it better.</span></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Best regards,</span></div>
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<b>Make our long haul shorter: </b><i>keep healthy and keep people working-- lead by example to suppress SARS-CoV-2 transmission.</i></p>
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To decrease cortisol’s insidious health affects and avoid burn out, I’m back to regular email practices. Please use URGENT in the subject line of emails to me only if they actually are; when sending URGENT emails outside of our “normal hours” please text me
to look at my email. Individual personnel SARS-CoV-2 INFECTION or overt COVID-19 is an IMMEDIATE PERSONNEL WELLBEING issue and must be marked URGENT, just like any other individual personnel wellbeing issues should continue to be.</p>
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Please use “Time sensitive” in the subject line of emails when appropriate but DO NOT text me.</p>
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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>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#767676">Vice President for Agriculture, Life and Veterinary Sciences, and
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#767676">THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#767676"><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#767676">Forbes Building, Room 306 | 1140 E. South Campus Drive<br>
P.O. Box 210036 | Tucson, AZ 85721-0036<br>
Office: 520-621-7621<br>
<a href="mailto:sburgess@cals.arizona.edu"><span style="color:rgb(118,118,118)">sburgess@cals.arizona.edu</span></a><br>
<b><a href="https://alvsce.arizona.edu/"><span style="color:rgb(139,0,21)">alvsce.arizona.edu</span></a></b><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:#1F4E79">The University of Arizona is located statewide on the ancestral homelands of indigenous peoples.</span></p>
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