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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear CALS Faculty,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Here are some important updates and information from the February 6th Faculty Senate Meeting (and remember that a recording of each faculty senate meeting can be found</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://arizona.app.box.com/s/xypikopn45wdko3esv4r16bdiumw5y5s"><span style="color:#1155CC">
here</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> if you’d like to view it). </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dr. Jenny Lee, the Chair of the General Faculty Committee on University Safety for All, provided a brief report about the committee’s report entitled
<a href="https://facultygovernance.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/2023-02/FINAL_REDACTED_01-30-2023%20-%20SAFETY%20REPORT.pdf">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">Oversight and Response Failure Broken Trust</span></a>. Her remarks are attached, along with a newly released 1-page FAQ document about the report. We encourage all faculty to read it. The Faculty
Senate passed a resolution supporting the work of the Committee and the report.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;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">CALS Faculty Dr. Eric Lyons spoke about faculty concerns about the UITS centralization plan. Some of his major points are attached (in a word document). During the conversation,
<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g1ZAHGPCXcI4zmy6G2ilJzJSOyqlfSNsEWwAYpP987I/edit?usp=sharing">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">a Union FAQ document</span></a> about the UITS Centralization plan was shared by a non-senator through the Q&A. We think it may be helpful for folks to understand the scope of the project and what
this means for the UA community.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">There are two upcoming Faculty Senate meetings to know about:</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Feb 27th, 3-5 pm - a special session devoted to procedural processes and recent changes/concerns (</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://arizona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oKEjewEBQKOjUdgALvA3EA"><span style="color:#1155CC">register
here</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">) and March 13th, 3-5 pm (</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://arizona.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pE2CvNlORn-qq2EVzNrdMg"><span style="color:#1155CC">register here</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">).</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">Unrelated to Faculty Senate, but important for CALS Faculty to know about: We are attaching a Framework for the AIB College Committees. There are several important points covered
in the document detailing costs funded by the academic units versus CALS central funds. </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">As always, happy to hear from you all - please feel free to reach out directly via our anonymous qualtrics survey:
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://uarizona.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4ZXIgJJOLxYVaD4"><span style="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, Tim & Katie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Faculty Senators,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">CALS</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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