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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As members of the faculty in the premier STEM-focused Division on campus, we are all</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">already leading the way on
capacity-building and strengthening to support STEM students at the UA. </span><br>
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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-size:12pt">The attached
</span><span style="font-size:12pt">report serves to highlight very specific ways in which we might further contribute to UA </span><span style="font-size:12pt">student success in STEM, with an emphasis on underrepresented minority students (broadly defined,
and inclusive of people with disabilities, women, veterans, LGBTQ students as well as people of color and first generation to college). </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-size:12pt">I personally found this report very helpful when crafting a USDA training grant last summer, and highly recommend it (especially if you are developing training grants or NSF broader impacts
sections).</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Please reach out to our UA colleagues and authors of this report, Vignesh Subbian and Guadalupe Lozano, at
<span style="background-color:rgb(190,190,190)">steminhsi@email.arizona.edu</span> if you are interested in collaborating on specific recommendations outlined in the report. </p>
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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">The reference (and link to the report) is also found here: <font size="2" style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:rgb(190,190,190)">Lozano, Guadalupe
and Franco, Marla and Subbian, Vignesh,</span></font><font size="2" style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(190,190,190)"> </span></b></span></font><font size="2" style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"><b><i><span style="background-color:rgb(190,190,190)">Transforming
STEM Education in Hispanic Serving Institutions in the United States: A Consensus Report</span></i></b></span></font><font size="2" style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(190,190,190)"> </span></b></span></font><font size="2" style="color:rgb(33,33,33); font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:rgb(190,190,190)">(April
12, 2018). Available at SSRN: </span></font><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fssrn.com%2Fabstract%3D3238702&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHv19qFJP6xXvSksloSPyxzfqZLFA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPlnk542633" class="OWAAutoLink" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" previewremoved="true"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:rgb(190,190,190)">https://ssrn.com/abstract=3238702</span></font></a></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Regards,</p>
<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Melanie Hingle</p>
<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">UA Faculty Senator Representing CALS, 2018-20</p>
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hinglem@email.arizona.edu <br>
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