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Dear colleagues,</div>
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I have invited you to join a folder on Box (<b>2024 SPLS Faculty Meeting Minutes</b>). Invitations have been sent to your institutional addresses as listed on our Primary Faculty list at the SPLS website.</div>
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Notes from our faculty meeting on 23 February 2024, and presentation slides from current and former Associate Directors and our DGS, can be found there. I also have included the agenda.</div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">For convenience here is the Box address. <a href="https://arizona.box.com/s/8926zd16ovp5o9jvkp6vd0dvbfxxoky3" id="LPlnk560884">https://arizona.box.com/s/8926zd16ovp5o9jvkp6vd0dvbfxxoky3</a></span></div>
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We are asked by our Interim Director to review the minutes, which are meant to have captured the key points of the meeting in an accurate manner. If you have any questions or disagree with information as listed, please feel free to contact me (arnold@ag.arizona.edu
or fungi@arizona.edu). Please let me know of any concerns by March 1 at 5pm. </div>
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Thank you to Jesse for helping record notes from the12:30 to the end of the meeting. </div>
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Best regards,</div>
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Betsy</div>
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