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Please see the string below for clarification on my email from earlier this afternoon.</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 30, 2021 8:19 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Staten, Michael E - (statenm) <statenm@arizona.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Zeiders, Katharine Hunsdon - (zeidersk) <zeidersk@arizona.edu>; Skorupski, Kayle Jeanne - (kayleskorupski) <kayleskorupski@arizona.edu><br>
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Dear Mike,</p>
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Thank you for clarifying. That will address the concerns that we heard.</p>
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Sincerely,</p>
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<b>From:</b> Staten, Michael E - (statenm) <statenm@arizona.edu> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 30, 2021 8:17 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Renquist, Benjamin J - (bjrenquist) <bjrenquist@arizona.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Zeiders, Katharine Hunsdon - (zeidersk) <zeidersk@arizona.edu>; Skorupski, Kayle Jeanne - (kayleskorupski) <kayleskorupski@arizona.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Email to MS</p>
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I’m sorry that I didn’t make myself clear. In no way am I suggesting that you should feel any sort of pressure to teach unmasked. On the contrary, I am trying to provide cover and support for those faculty who do not feel they can do their job effectively
while teaching with a mask. I haven’t heard anybody advocate for them or their students. I have heard from several such faculty and I sympathize with their situation. </p>
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Unless and until the UA requires masking, this is my honest advice to faculty. It is an individual decision until then. I will distribute your concern and my reply to the distribution list shortly.</p>
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<span style="color:#201F1E">We are emailing you as Faculty Council members (and have copied in our FC chair); since you’ve sent this email, we’ve received many concerned emails from faculty and staff in our units. Usually, we’d take this concern to Faculty
Council to address, but </span><span style="color:black">Faculty Council does not convene during summer months. In turn,
</span><span style="color:#201F1E">we are reaching out to you directly </span><span style="color:black">to address</span><span style="color:#201F1E"> this. </span></p>
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<span style="color:#201F1E">The email you sent states, “<i>I’m willing to let instructional mission delivery be compromised only up to a point</i>”. And then follows up by proposing that faculty “<i>strongly consider teaching this semester without a mask if
they think their instructional style and the nature of the subject matter would be significantly compromised via masked delivery</i>”.
<span style="background:white">Given that CDC now recommends masking independent of vaccination status, this e-mail contradicts the recommendations of our best infectious disease experts. It further goes directly against the “strongly recommended” use of masks
for indoor and group activities that was included in the .ppt file you attached to his e-mail. This powerpoint was created by public health experts at the University of Arizona. </span> </span></p>
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<span style="color:#201F1E">Related, we can envision no subject in which a mask would compromise delivery. We further feel that when read as a whole, this e-mail suggests that you believe masks will affect the instructional mission and that you will not let
that happen. We are very concerned that instructors may inadvertently believe they will be punished if they chose to instruct with a mask. </span></p>
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<span style="color:#201F1E">We are reaching out to ask you to please clarify your email and advise that all instructors follow CDC recommendations and wear a mask while teaching. Our instructors should be supported in following CDC guidance to keep themselves,
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