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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear CALS Faculty,</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">In this email, we are combining our summary of the last Faculty Senate meeting (January 23) and the agenda items for the upcoming meeting on February 6th. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Faculty Senate met on January 23<sup>rd</sup>, and here are a few things we think are important to report on:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">C11 issued their report on the Nominating Committee practices and reform. The report is attached to this email. Additionally, a Nominating Committee resolution was passed allowing faculty (not administrators or only
the Nominating Committee chair) to select faculty who will appear on the final CAFT ballot. As you all may know, elections are underway now, and we encourage you to vote.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The next Faculty Senate meeting is Monday, Feb. 6<sup>th</sup>, and the agenda can be found</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://facultygovernance.arizona.edu/events/779-faculty-senate-meeting"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">
here</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">. </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We did want to alert you to a few items that we think are of interest to faculty:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">There will be a discussion related to the
<a href="https://facultygovernance.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/2023-02/FINAL_REDACTED_01-30-2023%20-%20SAFETY%20REPORT.pdf">
<span style="color:#1155CC">General Faculty Safety/Security report </span></a> which was released yesterday and details the failures within our institution to keep our colleague Dr. Tom Meixner safe. It also details other cases of harassment, intimidation and
safety issues happening at UA. We encourage all faculty to read this report. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-alternates: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Additionally, on the agenda is a discussion of furlough reimbursement in light of<a href="https://facultygovernance.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/2023-01/Why%20ASU%2C%20UA%20poured%20%24125.5M%20into%20athletics%20at%20height%20of%20pandemic%20%282%29.pdf"><span style="color:#1155CC">
the news report</span></a> detailing athletic bailouts during the pandemic. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-numeric: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-alternates: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">And finally, you’ll notice that the UITS Centralization plan is being discussed, in part because of a memo of concern that was sent by the CALS Faculty Council.
<a href="https://facultygovernance.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/2023-01/Memo_UITS%20Centralization%20Project_Final%20%281%29.pdf">
<span style="color:#1155CC">The memo can be found here</span></a>. Thank you to our Faculty Council members for their work on this. <o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Register for the Feb. 6th Faculty Senate meeting here:
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://arizona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_boEgb_6KT6Ow6I9wVmyLTw"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://arizona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_boEgb_6KT6Ow6I9wVmyLTw</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">As always, please feel free to reach out to us via email or via our anonymous qualtrics survey with your feedback or thoughts: Qualtrics survey link:
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://uarizona.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4ZXIgJJOLxYVaD4"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://uarizona.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4ZXIgJJOLxYVaD4</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Ravi Goyal, Tim Ottusch, Katie Zeiders </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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