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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">Sent on
</span>behalf of Joanna Goode<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">The Education Studies department invites you to attend a colloquium presented by Dr. AJ Alvero<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121">Colloquium title: </span></b><span class="normaltextrun">The Computational Sociolinguistics of Selective College Admissions</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Tuesday, February 6, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">11:30am-12:30pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">HEDCO 230T or via Zoom (link below)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#212121">For those unable to attend, the colloquium will be recorded, and a link shared after the presentation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#212121">This presentation is part of an on-campus interview for an Assistant Professor position in the Department of Education Studies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>About AJ Alvero<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun">AJ Alvero is an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida Department of Sociology, Criminology & Law researching language, race/ethnicity, culture, inequality and stratification, and evaluation through computational perspectives.
His past work analyzing a large corpus of college admissions essays has been published in venues like Science Advances, the Journal of Computational Social Science, the Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning, and other venues. His future work
examines new AI technologies, other systems of evaluation, and Latinx identity. AJ earned his PhD from the Stanford University Graduate School of Education in 2022 where he was a Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow and a Diversifying Academia and Recruiting
Excellence (DARE) Fellow. Prior to entering academia, AJ was a high school English teacher in Miami, FL.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Topic: AJ Alvero Colloquium</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Time: Feb 6, 2024 11:30 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Join Zoom Meeting</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><a href="https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/92050613571?pwd=RDZmY0czeW43TytqR3FMbnFMV2MyUT09">https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/92050613571?pwd=RDZmY0czeW43TytqR3FMbnFMV2MyUT09</a></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Meeting ID: 920 5061 3571</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Passcode: 644149</i><o:p></o:p></p>
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