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This fall has been an incredibly busy time for everybody, with a lot of changes on every front. Our budget planning process for FY21 has involved many revisions (we're now working on our fifth), but the latest university budget model leaves CALS, specifically,
in a better position than it was the last time we met on Dial-the-Dean to discuss the budget. I look forward to sharing this information in detail at the Fall 2020 Semiannual Update & Awards Celebration, which will now be held on December 8.</div>
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I am inspired by your creativity and grit. I have seen exemplary adaptation and fortitude under huge challenges. You have converted programs as diverse as developmental health screenings, laboratory teaching and multi-day national conferences to virtual formats.
We have hired colleagues and recruited students over Zoom.</div>
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This weekend, the university kicks off <b>#BearDownEverywhere</b> Homecoming 2020. "A" Mountain will be virtually lit; Chef Omo will give cooking lessons; there will be webinars, virtual tours, and a Giving Day with a digital donor wall.</div>
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Our alumni team is hosting a CALS UA Trivia Showdown, and I am looking forward to welcoming CALS alumni and friends "back to campus" on Saturday morning. This will be a different Homecoming, but it will be historic, and it is going to make next fall's event
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I am grateful to each and every one of our faculty, advisors and staff who have taken the additional time to reach out to our students to acknowledge their stress and the challenges they are facing and to make sure they are doing okay. Flexibility with course
policies and deadlines can be helpful, but I know it also adds more to your plates as their instructors. The additional student needs mean the online shift has increased your workloads substantially. I and your unit heads see it and will recognize it in annual
and other personnel reviews.</div>
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I hope you can find a good balance between our students needs and your own. However, as I have said many times before, we are often forced to choose the least worst of our options. This marathon is not over; it won't be for a while yet, and I recommend you
prepare yourself for some false dawns--and in the meantime proactively chose to laugh. Do so with your students, too. They need it as much as you do. Remember, for those living alone and especially those new to our enterprise, meeting people outside is low
risk. We will all (faculty, staff and students) have tough times in the next 12 months. Be kind to each other.</div>
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Tomorrow, our nation pauses on the 102nd anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I to honor the veterans of our armed forces who sacrifice so much.</div>
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I am honored to serve Arizona with you.</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>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; line-height:107%; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#767676">Vice President for the Division of 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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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>
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