<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Michael,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you for taking the time to bring me up to speed on some of the history of Black Studies and Ethnic Studies at UO. You probably can tell that I was ignorant of all of this when we began putting together this resolution. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Clearly, there is a complex and troubling history here. The last thing we want is for this resolution - which is specifically about recognizing and taking steps to dismantle systemic racism at UO - to perpetuate systemic inequity. We welcome amendments and will discuss any that are moved tomorrow. Michael, your comments underscore to me the possibility that any mention or omission of specific departments and programs carries the possibility of triggering unintended consequences stemming from histories of which we are unaware. I encourage us all to be mindful of that possibility <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">as we discuss this resolution tomorrow.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">-Ell</span></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"> </span></div></span></span>
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 9, 2020, at 2:57 PM, Michael Hames-Garcia <<a href="mailto:mhamesg@uoregon.edu" class="">mhamesg@uoregon.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: red;" class="">Dear Elliot,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: red;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: red;" class="">I have so much to say in response, but not enough time so I apologize for the scattered nature of this reply.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><<Please accept my apology for the removal of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies from the resolution. I understand that its omission from the resolution feels like yet another case of devaluation and erasure from our institutional priorities. Of course, that was not the intention. Our rationale for taking out mention of specific programs was twofold. First, we did not feel comfortable calling on a program to take on still more burden without fully consulting the faculty in that program. The rapid evolution of this resolution has precluded us from doing that. We received this feedback from one faculty member who we reached out to for input, "<span style="" class="">I feel like we’re being asked to sign off on behalf of our communities, programs, and departments without any time to consult with them. For example, while I appreciate the sentiment of support for more hires in IRES, I don’t recall being asked by the senate about how to make IRES classes a requirement or what would work best for us."</span>>><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: red;" class="">Yes, I am aware of Brian’s reply to you. I was blind copied on it. I think you can understand that as a response grounded in the very issues that I discussed in my earlier email. A decision appeared to be made in the earlier draft about our curriculum. However, other parts of the resolution called for increased support for IRES. That was also removed.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: red;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><<Second, while acknowledging the tremendous amount of work that the IRES faculty have done for scholarship and teaching around these issues, including that program only seemed to us to be disrespectful to all the other programs and departments that also do relevant work and teaching. We specifically discussed this issue and vacillated between naming ALL such programs on campus or referring to them collectively while not naming each one individually. We decided on the latter, and this language from the resolution is certainly intended to include not only IRES but all programs and departments that work and teach in these areas: "<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(43, 43, 43); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">Identifying and promoting existing scholarship and curricula,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">such as</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the Black Studies minor, that illuminate and mitigate structural racism and oppression and their effects on society…"</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class="">>></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: red;" class="">And, with all due respect, truly, for other units that contribute to the study of race,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">we are, by definition, THE academic department dedicated entirely to it</i>. We are the hub at which those other units you gesture to come together. I don’t think that BLST or CSWS or CMAE or CLLAS will disagree with this statement. That is because of our decades-long record of mutual support and collaboration with all of those other units. Any unit on campus that addresses race also has great respect for IRES. I can guarantee that. It is elsewhere that we are assumed not to have substance.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><<Michael, you also note that we do name exactly one academic program - the new Black Studies minor that the Senate will vote to approve as part of the curriculum report at the meeting tomorrow. At this particular moment in time, it felt appropriate to us to name the one program we are creating on campus that focuses on the experiences and lives of Black Americans. Additionally, it is notable that the creation of the Black Studies minor stemmed from the 2015 Black Students Task Force demands, which added further weight toward including Black studies in the resolution as a way of highlighting the senate’s action on that list tomorrow.>><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: red;" class="">All of this makes sense, but also continues the mistaken impression that Black Studies has not been done in IRES since 1972 when the late Professor Ed Colman developed the Ethnic Studies Certificate. The insistence kin 2017 on developing a separate program derailed two-years of work on the part of the Ethnic Studies Department to develop a minor in Black Studies in response to the Black Student Demands. After a year of visiting on the subject, discussion convened among faculty across the university, and a drafted proposal, we were told by CAS to scrap our plans. There is much about that fiasco that I cannot even begin explain here. But suffice it to say that there would have been a Black Studies minor proposal before the Senate two years ago if CAS and the President’s Office had not shut us down and attempted to force something else into being.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: red;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: red;" class="">The Black Student Task Force initially called for ES 101 to be required of all students. A few students who were unhappy with IRES’s centering of queer and feminist intellectual frameworks derailed that Ad Hoc Committee on ES 101 and what emerged was a demand for a separate Black Studies Program. Over the course of this year, following apologies from Dean Blonigen and President Schill, Black Studies Director Avinnash Tiwari has made efforts to return Black Studies in some way to a closer relationship with IRES (on the model of the Native Studies Program that we developed or the Latinx Studies Minor that we have proposed this year). However, the Black studies faculty in our department—we have at least five tenure-track faculty working in the field of Black studies, probably a majority of the tenure-track Black Studies faculty on campus at this point—are deeply traumatized by mistreatment we have suffered over this issue. One of tenured Black Studies faculty in IRES is considering leaving because of it. Two others got outside offers this year and may not have gone on the market had it not been for the serious disrepect we have endured in recent years over the Black Studies issue.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: red;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: red;" class="">By way of contrast, I convened a meeting of faculty and student advisors from across campus last October to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">begin</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>discussion of a Latinx Studies minor. Our proposal was approved by the Undergraduate Council last week. Eight and a half months from start to finish. We were given no funding to support our effort. (According to Course Leaf, the University committed $180,000 to support the development of the Black Studies minor—not including what IRES spent on bringing speakers from Black Studies program at Cornell University and elsewhere during our 2016 planning efforts.)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: red;" class="">In sum, we had a proposal for a Black Studies Minor fully drafted three years ago. We were not allowed to submit it. As a result, students have had to until now for the minor to be approved by the senate. This university has harmed Black students who could have already pursued a minor. That harm was rooted in the refusal to recognize and defer to the expertise of our department. I have to believe that the ease with which we were delegitimized, punished, and dismissed with regard to an issue as important as the study of Blackness is because we are Black Indigenous People of Color. This is not about one administrator’s decision in this or that moment or about intentions. It is about<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">systemic racism</b>. I cannot overstate the cost to our emotional and physical health and to our relationship with the University from the many collateral effects of these events.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: red;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">We will bring this resolution to the floor tomorrow and, in the mean time, continue to welcome suggestions for how it can be improved. We will begin our discussion with the motion as it currently stands on the senate website, <a href="https://senate.uoregon.edu/2020/06/05/us19-20-18-resolution-against-racism-and-systemic-oppression/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">here</a>. Should someone bring a motion to amend the resolution to name specific other programs or to make other specific changes (and we have already received suggested edits to other sections of the proposal), we will of course discuss and vote on those.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I want to close by thanking everyone - senators and others - for voicing your input on this motion. Working on this resolution is not an easy first step, and indeed none of the steps we as an institution will be taking across the coming years will be easy if we do them right. But Elizabeth and I very much appreciate the spirit of collective action that everyone is bringing to this. In the end, we are working toward the same broad goal and everyone we’ve connected with has been eager to do the hard work and do it as well as we can.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""><span class="apple-style-span">-Ell</span></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">On Jun 9, 2020, at 1:06 PM, Anne 'Michelle' Wood <<a href="mailto:miche@uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">miche@uoregon.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">HI Michael - Thank you for this insight; you raise troubling issues. My desire is to get something going, and a motion requires debate, but perhaps this is something we should take more time with. Tomorrow is STEM-boycott; I wish we were making more of an effort to postpone business to another day and to get a document with more wholehearted support. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Thanks<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Michelle<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><hr size="2" width="975" align="center" style="width: 731.3pt;" class=""></div><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Michael Hames-Garcia <<a href="mailto:mhamesg@uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">mhamesg@uoregon.edu</span></a>><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Tuesday, June 9, 2020 1:02 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Anne 'Michelle' Wood <<a href="mailto:miche@uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">miche@uoregon.edu</span></a>>; Elizabeth Skowron <<a href="mailto:eskowron@uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">eskowron@uoregon.edu</span></a>>; '<a href="mailto:uosenate@lists.uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">uosenate@lists.uoregon.edu</span></a>' <<a href="mailto:uosenate@lists.uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">uosenate@lists.uoregon.edu</span></a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Uosenate] UO Senate Meeting, Wed. June 10th 3-5 pm -- announcement<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ArialMT, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: ArialMT, serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Hi Elizabeth and all,<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I want to thank Edward and others for bringing up some of the shortcomings of the resolution. Personally, since I had given input on different parts of the proposal at two different stages, I found myself disappointed with the final product.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Among my disappointments was the removal of any mention of IRES in the resolution. The IRES Department and its earlier incarnations have been a force for studying and teaching about race, ethnicity, indigeneity, and white supremacy since 1972. It began as a certificate program housed in the English Department. It became an independent program in the social sciences in the 1990s. It became a department a decade ago and now has a PhD program approved to begin admitting students this coming year.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">As a hub for research and teaching on these issues, its faculty have been massively overtaxed. At the same time, we have acted as a support network for faculty of color across campus (not only in CAS). Our faculty have participated in searches for administrators and for faculty in a number of departments, but have met with candidates during their visits in vastly more cases. (I, personally, have been on search committees in Education Studies, English, Cinema Studies, and Political Science, as well as searches for the CAS Dean, the University President, and the Chief Civil Rights Officer). Every one of the President’s Ad Hoc Committees set up after the Black Student Protests in 2013 had an Ethnic Studies professor on it. Similarly, Ethnic Studies faculty provided expertise serving on committees for the Black Studies Cluster Hires, took time to meet with candidates during their visits, and organized a welcome picnic when they arrived. This last was one of many informal social events and formal receptions that the Department has organized in an effort to retain faculty of color at the University of Oregon going back to the 1990s. When then-Vice Provost Russ Tomlin was going to eliminate an African Americanist history line in the History Department some time back, it was the Ethnic Studies faculty who met with Russ en masse to successfully advocate for the position. When history professor Peggy Pascoe passed away, it was Ethnic Studies that organized an annual event in her memory. At least three members of our department were involved centrally at one time or another in the change of the University’s multicultural requirement to the new Difference, Identity, and Agency requirement.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I could go on, but I am sure you get the point. Without the labor and expertise of IRES faculty over the past two decades, the University of Oregon would be far worse off on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are by definition the location on campus where “scholarship and curricula . . . that illuminate and mitigate structural racism and oppression and their effects on society” is located. We currently have three black-identified tenure-track faculty members (two of whom are tenured) in a department of eleven faculty. Even where work on race and racism is done far from the Social Sciences Division, we have structural links that support those faculty. Our graduate faculty draws from PPPM, Education, WGSS, Sociology, History, English, Cinema Studies, Anthropology, SOJC, Political Science, Romance Languages, and Theater Arts.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">To make IRES invisible at this time (while singling out the Black Studies Minor, which doesn’t technically exist yet) repeats the mistakes that senior administrators made (and have since personally apologized for) a few years ago in attempting to build a Black Studies Program apart from IRES. Without IRES courses, there couldn’t be a Black Studies Minor.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">This invisibility also repeats an ongoing pattern of misrecognition, disappearance, and marginalization of our department that extends back at least to the Deanship of Wendy Larson, who infamously told us that Ethnic Studies could not become a department because we are not a “discipline.” After a student campaign and our own lobbying of Russ Tomlin and then-Provost Linda Brady, a committee was formed to evaluate our suitability to be a department. In order to provide cover so that it did not appear that Dean Larson had “caved” to our demands, both Women’s and Gender Studies and International Studies were also taken up and departmentalize. Neither of those units had asked to departmentalize much less campaigned extensively for years to achieve the status.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Ten years ago, we were moved to “temporary space” in Esslinger Hall because we had outgrown the space we were borrowing from History in McKenzie Hall. Within two years of moving to Esslinger, we were moved off campus to the Alder Building (which no student can find). Thus, at the same that the University was extracting huge quantities of surplus labor from our faculty and staff, we were literally shoved off campus. We have now outgrown the space in Alder and there is no move into an on-campus space in sight (despite construction cranes everywhere).<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">There is only so much disrespect faculty of color can take. Our faculty have won major national awards for their scholarship. We have faculty in our small department who have won both the Ersted Award and the Herman Award for Distinguished Teaching. I think that a majority of our faculty have won Martin Luther Kind Awards. We have won these honors despite the overwhelming service the University has demanded of us. Perhaps most shocking of all, in the 15 years that I have been at the University of Oregon only four faculty of color have left the department (one to UC Irvine, one to UC Berkeley, one to the University of Hawaii, and one to Yale University). At the same time, we recruited Guggenheim Fellow Laura Pulido from USC and have never been turned down by our top choice candidate in a job search. We have managed to create a functional academic department that is the definition of excellence in every way and is a magnate for faculty of color researching race and racism. Meanwhile, everywhere else on campus, white faculty blame the lack of diversity in Eugene for their inability to recruit and retain faculty of color.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">We have accomplished all of this despite an unrelenting lack of respect for our scholarship, teaching, and service at this University. It is constantly assumed that what we do can be replicated as an added week or two in some other class. I cannot think of another discipline that is so often trivialized.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I cannot support a Senate resolution that continues to devalue and marginalize the work that I do and the Department that I helped build.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Respectfully,<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Michael<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">--<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Dr. Michael Hames-García<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><i class="">(pronouns: he–him or they–them)</i><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><i class="">Professor of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon<br class="">Vice President for Equity & Diversity of the United Academics of the University of Oregon (UAUO) (our faculty union)<br class="">Vice President of the Oregon chapter of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT-OR)</i><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/michaelhamesgarcia.com/__;!!C5qS4YX3!X_yUJIkbCtxbiowkNXd0WnnMy0NfsRL-wDgtPeI3KwkQ84CYNfwYB4f5k9D_awcBGA$" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">https://michaelhamesgarcia.com/</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">DREAMER ALLY:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">I support all students regardless of status or identity.</i><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">DISCLAIMER:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">This account is maintained for professional communications. Unless otherwise indicated, the content and opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of nor are they endorsed by the University of Oregon or the Oregon University System.</i><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">From:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><<a href="mailto:uosenate-bounces@lists.uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">uosenate-bounces@lists.uoregon.edu</span></a>> on behalf of Anne 'Michelle' Wood <<a href="mailto:miche@uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">miche@uoregon.edu</span></a>><br class=""><b class="">Date:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Tuesday, June 9, 2020 at 7:11 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Elizabeth Skowron <<a href="mailto:eskowron@uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">eskowron@uoregon.edu</span></a>>, "'<a href="mailto:uosenate@lists.uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">uosenate@lists.uoregon.edu</span></a>'" <<a href="mailto:uosenate@lists.uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">uosenate@lists.uoregon.edu</span></a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Re: [Uosenate] UO Senate Meeting, Wed. June 10th 3-5 pm -- announcement</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">HI Elizabeth, I am happy to co-sponsor the bill. It may need tweaking, but there are going to be quite a few steps on this journey and this gets us going. Thanks</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Anne "Michelle" Wood</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><hr size="0" width="81%" align="center" class=""></div><div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:uosenate-bounces@lists.uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">uosenate-bounces@lists.uoregon.edu</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><<a href="mailto:uosenate-bounces@lists.uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">uosenate-bounces@lists.uoregon.edu</span></a>> on behalf of Jay Butler <<a href="mailto:jbutler7@uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">jbutler7@uoregon.edu</span></a>><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Monday, June 8, 2020 4:05 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Elizabeth Skowron <<a href="mailto:eskowron@uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">eskowron@uoregon.edu</span></a>>; '<a href="mailto:uosenate@lists.uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">uosenate@lists.uoregon.edu</span></a>' <<a href="mailto:uosenate@lists.uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">uosenate@lists.uoregon.edu</span></a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Uosenate] UO Senate Meeting, Wed. June 10th 3-5 pm -- announcement<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Thanks for the update, Elizabeth. The article/quote you included is quite on point. As I emailed you last week to add my name as a co-sponsor to the proposed resolution, and then today, contemplating skipping the meeting in solidarity with #shutdownacademia, your email helped me see the true reason of what our collective mission is. I will most definitely be attending Wednesday’s senate meeting.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">Thank you,</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Jay Butler</b><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Business Affairs Office, Payroll<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">UO Senate, Classified Senator<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">UO Senate, Senate Executive Committee<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Environmental Issues Committee<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">VPFA Diversity Committee<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">University of Oregon<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><a href="mailto:jbutler7@uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">jbutler7@uoregon.edu</span></a></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">T | 541.346.1126<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">F | 541.346.1109<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Pronouns: he/him/his<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Webdings; color: green;" class="">P</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; color: green;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: "Arial Narrow", sans-serif; color: green;" class=""> Please consider the environment before printing this email.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:uosenate-bounces@lists.uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">uosenate-bounces@lists.uoregon.edu</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><<a href="mailto:uosenate-bounces@lists.uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">uosenate-bounces@lists.uoregon.edu</span></a>><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">On Behalf Of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Elizabeth Skowron<br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Monday, June 8, 2020 3:46 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>'<a href="mailto:uosenate@lists.uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">uosenate@lists.uoregon.edu</span></a>' <<a href="mailto:uosenate@lists.uoregon.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">uosenate@lists.uoregon.edu</span></a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>[Uosenate] UO Senate Meeting, Wed. June 10th 3-5 pm -- announcement<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Dear Colleagues in the University Senate,<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Please find a copy of the June 10<sup class="">th</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Senate Meeting below. I want to share that I’d given some thought to cancelling the meeting in light of the requests circulating to #shutdownacademia on Wed for the day,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.shutdownstem.com/__;!!C5qS4YX3!Vla1JQotz5fhMG-FtvSi3LCksJitRVqp3oZaRBRtNCbR9JNS2yztYRzI2Erq88dN$" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">https://www.shutdownstem.com/</span></a>. We have heard from a few senators who have emailed to share that they may not attend the senate meeting in support of this call. These are important collective actions and each needs to do what they believe are the best actions for themselves. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I have decided as senate president to proceed with a modified senate meeting on Wed. I believe that each of the items retained on the agenda are—more or less so—in keeping with efforts to take action against racism and systemic oppression.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;" class=""><span style="font-family: Symbol;" class="">·</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>we will be considering and voting on the attached resolution, which we have prepared at the behest of a student advocacy group, and in consulting with many individuals on campus<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;" class=""><span style="font-family: Symbol;" class="">·</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>we will be honoring several colleagues who have been nominated and selected for awards for excellence in shared governance and other leadership and service contributions to the UO, including several colleagues of color<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;" class=""><span style="font-family: Symbol;" class="">·</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>we will voting on a new senate VP, and be accepting a number of courses and program mods necessary for such mods and courses to be offered in the coming fall term, including new courses on UO Difference, Race, and Inequality and<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin-left: 1in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;" class=""><span style="font-family: "Courier New";" class="">o</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Approval of an undergraduate minor in Black Studies. Effective Fall 2020<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin-left: 1in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;" class=""><span style="font-family: "Courier New";" class="">o</span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Changing the name of the Doctor of Philosophy in Ethnic Studies and a Master of Arts in Ethnic Studies to a Doctor of Philosophy in Indigenous, Race and Ethnic Studies and a Master of Arts in Indigenous, Race and Ethnic Studies (effective Fall 2021)<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><p class="xxmsolistparagraph" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 1in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> <o:p class=""></o:p></p><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Last week I seriously contemplated whether or not to proceed with the senate meeting. I came across this article in the NYT which I found helpful: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/opinion/whites-anti-blackness-protests.html__;!!C5qS4YX3!X_5uigh8C44wDQNWT5LbT9IeQwapKZViYAU0dQTh-UYJHyiWixD2PQ00R6d0PWAbdHs$" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: windowtext;" class="">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/opinion/whites-anti-blackness-protests.html</span></a>. <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;" class="">My book is coming out in a few months, and I don’t know if I’m going to be alive to see it, because I’m a black man.</span></i><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;" class=""> </span></i><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;" class="">On Monday evening my agent, a liberal white woman in her 30s, sent an email informing me that she was postponing our important meeting with my editor the next day. The agency representing my book was observing a Blackout Day “to honor George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and the countless other black men and women who have been unjustifiably brutalized and killed.”</span></i><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;" class=""> </span></i><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;" class="">The company planned to “take this time to reflect and think about long-term actions we can take both as individuals and as an organization to address the systemic racism that persists in our business and communities,” she added.</span></i><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;" class=""> </span></i><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;" class="">To paraphrase, my agent was pushing back a meeting necessary for the completion and timely release of my book — which is about how black people can apply the lessons we derive from traumatic experiences to our careers — so that white people could reflect on how to help black people. I countered, insisting that our meeting take place as scheduled because black people’s lives are in danger, and I shouldn’t have to sacrifice momentum on a book written for black people because white people are performing empathy.</span></i><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 8pt;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">This helped me personally to make the decision to hold this week’s meeting. I hope that many of you are able to join as well. I’m available to talk further if you wish…feel free to reach out via email or phone.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Thank you,<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Elizabeth<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="border-style: none none dotted; border-bottom-width: 3pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div><h1 style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 24pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Senate Meeting Agenda – June 10, 2020<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></h1><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Location: Zoom (Please find link below the agenda)<br class="">3:00 – 5:00 P.M.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">3:00 P.M. Call to Order</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" class=""><li class="xxmsonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><s class="">Introductory Remarks; Senate President Elizabeth Skowron</s><o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="xxmsonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Remarks; Senate Vice President & President-Elect Elliot Berkman<o:p class=""></o:p></li></ul><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class=""><s class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">3:10 P.M. Approval of the Minutes</span></s></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;" class=""><s class="">May 13, 2020</s><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">3:15 P.M. State of the University</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" class=""><li class="xxmsonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">President Michael Schill<o:p class=""></o:p></li></ul><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">3:30 P.M. New Business</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" class=""><li class="xxmsonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">US19/20-18: Resolution Against Racism and Systemic Oppression<o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="xxmsonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Election: Senate VP & President-Elect for 2020-2021<o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="xxmsonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Spring 2020 Curriculum Report; Frances White, Chair of UOCC<o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="xxmsonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><s class=""><a href="https://senate.uoregon.edu/2020/05/13/us19-20-16-resolution-to-adopt-an-open-access-scholarship-policy/" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class="">US19/20-16: Resolution to Adopt an Open Access Scholarship Policy</span></a>; David Condon (Psychology), Margaret Sereno (Psychology)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></s>(deferred to Fall, 2020)<o:p class=""></o:p></li></ul><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">4:10 P.M. Awards</span></strong><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;" class=""><li class="xxmsonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Shared Governance Award: Sierra Dawson, Jennifer Espinola, Chris Esparza; Intro by Elizabeth Skowron & Jessica Cronce<o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="xxmsonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Classified Staff Award: Cimmeron Gillespie,<span class="xxapple-converted-space"> </span>Intro by Steve Mital and Robyn Hathcock; and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Char Fentress,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Intro by Allie Heaman<o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="xxmsonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Wayne Westling Award: Kassia Dellabough, College of Design; Intro by Kristin Grieger<o:p class=""></o:p></li><li class="xxmsonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">OA Award: Herlinda (Linda) Leon; Intro by Amalia Gladhart<o:p class=""></o:p></li></ul><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">4:58 P.M. Open Discussion</span></strong><br class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">4:59 P.M. Other Business</span></strong><br class=""><strong class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">5:00 P.M. 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