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<span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif" class="ContentPasted0">I hope to see you today in person at our Senate Orientation (3pm-5pm, Gerlinger Lounge). I’ll be speaking about our Senate leadership priorities for the year. One of our priorities is increasing
UO’s participation in the <b class="ContentPasted0">Interinstitutional Faculty Senate</b>. Last year, I attended their meetings and realized how vital the organization is to having University Senate voices heard at the State level.<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif" class="ContentPasted0">From our UO Senate By-Laws:<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif" class="ContentPasted0">ARTICLE 8: INTERINSTITUTIONAL FACULTY SENATE (IFS) 8.1 Inter-institutional Faculty Senate. Created by the State Board of Higher Education in 1970, the Inter-institutional Faculty Senate (IFS)
brings together faculty voices from the public universities in Oregon.<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif" class="ContentPasted0">The IFS comprises all the Senates from Oregon’s public universities.<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"><a href="http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/education/student-services/about-us/faculty-services-resource-center/faculty-senate.cfm" target="_blank" id="OWAec0f51e6-d68e-4ed3-d33a-2d999cc7a69d" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0">Oregon
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<span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif" class="ContentPasted0">UO Senate has three voting representatives on the IFS: Senate President, Senate Vice-President, and one Senator (who serves a term of two years). We want to elect our IFS Senator representative
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<span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif" class="ContentPasted0">The IFS meetings are in person and via Zoom. I attended the in-person meetings last year at PSU and at Southern Oregon University. I found them extremely useful in understanding some of the challenges
our colleagues face throughout the state and how we could jointly advocate for significant policy changes. The meetings are one-day, on a Friday, once a term.
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<span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif" class="ContentPasted0">Please let me know if you want to nominate yourself or another senator. Also, don't hesitate to let me know if you have any questions about the role.
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"><b>Gerard Francisco Sandoval,</b></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria, Georgia, serif;">PhD</span><br>
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your e-mail pertains to the State of Oregon government (</span><span style="margin:0px"><a href="https://www.oregon.gov/lcd/Commission/Pages/index.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://www.oregon.gov/lcd/Commission/Pages/index.aspx" data-linkindex="3" style="margin:0px" id="OWA2ff446f1-60b1-6943-05f2-8a0340e89e92" class="OWAAutoLink"><span style="font-family:Cambria, Georgia, serif;margin:0px">Land
Conservation and Development Commission</span><span style="font-family:Cambria, Georgia, serif;margin:0px"> </span></a></span><span style="font-family:Cambria, Georgia, serif;margin:0px">and</span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Cambria, Georgia, serif;margin:0px"> </span><a href="https://www.oregon.gov/ohcs/hsc/pages/index.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://www.oregon.gov/ohcs/hsc/pages/index.aspx" data-linkindex="4" style="margin:0px" id="OWA686b99fb-2bab-1f46-51be-2bf8b5d7ead3" class="OWAAutoLink"><span style="font-family:Cambria, Georgia, serif;margin:0px">Housing
Stability Council</span></a></span><span style="font-family:Cambria, Georgia, serif;margin:0px">), please e-mail me at</span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Cambria, Georgia, serif;margin:0px"> </span></span><span style="font-family:Cambria, Georgia, serif;margin:0px"><b>gerard.sandoval@state.or.us.</b></span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Cambria, Georgia, serif;margin:0px"> I
do not use my University of Oregon e-mail account to conduct State of Oregon public service. Thank you.</span></span></span></div>
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