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    <p><font face="Calibri">If you are a <u><b>new GE and </b></u><u><b>were
            unable to attend the mandatory GE training </b></u><u><b>last
            week</b></u>, please read below. Otherwise ignore.</font><br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial
Narrow",sans-serif;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Greetings,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><span
            style="font-family:"Arial
Narrow",sans-serif;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">You
            are receiving this email because you were unable to attend
            the New Student Orientation and Mandatory GE Training
            September 19th. The makeup for thus training is Thursday,
            September 28th, 2017, 1-5 pm, in the Crater Lake Room in the
            EMU. 
          </span><span style="font-family:"Arial
Narrow",sans-serif;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">This
            training, which is a product of the contract negotiations
            with the GTFF, will provide you knowledge of university
            policies, resources, and strategies for dealing with
            challenges you may face in your new role as teachers,
            administrators, and researchers at the UO.  It will cover
            topics such as sick leave, Title IX policies, the Americans
            with Disabilities Act, resources available to employees, and
            other issues pertinent to your role as a Graduate Employee. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><b><span
              style="font-family:"Arial
Narrow",sans-serif;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">All
              Graduate Employees in the first term of their appointment
              must take the training. There are no exceptions.
            </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial
Narrow",sans-serif;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial
Narrow",sans-serif;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Attendance
            will be recorded, and you will be paid for the time you
            spend in the training. Once you have completed the
            training, you have fulfilled your obligation, and do not
            have to take the training again in subsequent terms. If you
            do not participate in the training you risk losing
            subsequent GE appointments.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial
Narrow",sans-serif;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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Narrow",sans-serif;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"> </span><span
            style="font-family:"Arial
Narrow",sans-serif;color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#2E75B6;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Best
            wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">Tori C Byington, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">Graduate School<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">University of Oregon<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">541-346-2461<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:byington@uoregon.edu">byington@uoregon.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">"Not everything that is faced can be
          changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced"---James
          Baldwin<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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