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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Senators, please distribute this message to your colleagues and those you represent.
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<span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#212121">Dear UO Senators, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#212121">As you can imagine, the situation Senate Leadership is now leading is dynamic, politically complex, and rapidly evolving. Hence, I wanted to provide a quick update on our Senate Leadership’s
role in the current negotiations. I want to clarify that <b>Senate Leadership is leading the negotiations</b>, and we are in direct contact with the encampment and administration. Our shared goal is to reach a satisfactory resolution that ends peacefully.
During my update at the UO Senate meeting on Wednesday, we will provide specific details on the approach Senate Leadership is taking to ameliorate this conflict as quickly as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#212121">Cordially,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#212121">Gerard and Alison<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Gerard Francisco Sandoval,</span></b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"> PhD</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">President, <a href="https://senate.uoregon.edu/" target="_blank" title="https://senate.uoregon.edu/">University Senate</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Professor, <a href="https://pppm.uoregon.edu/" target="_blank" title="https://pppm.uoregon.edu/">School of Planning, Public Policy and Management</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">University of Oregon</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">147A Hendricks Hall</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Eugene, OR, 97403-1209</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">541-346-8432</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Alison Schmitke,</span></b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"> PhD</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">University Senate Vice President</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Senior Lecturer II, Education Studies</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="color:black">Senate President <senatepres@uoregon.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, May 17, 2024 at 5:15</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">PM<br>
<b>To: </b>uosenate@lists.uoregon.edu <uosenate@lists.uoregon.edu>, Senate Vice President <senatevp@uoregon.edu>, Sandy Weintraub <sandymw@uoregon.edu>, Betina Lynn <betina@uoregon.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Hopeful Progress and New Beginnings<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Senators, please distribute this message to your colleagues and those you represent.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Dear UO Senators, </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Garamond",serif">As the conflict on campus escalates, Senate Leadership believes we need a new negotiation approach informed by shared governance to encourage authentic dialogue,
mutual understanding, and empathy. Hence, Senate Leadership has consulted and secured the agreement of the University of Oregon administration and the UO Palestine Coalition. We have asked Professor Michael Dreiling, the Department Head of Sociology, to be
an intermediary between the UO administration, the UO Senate, and the UO Palestine Coalition. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Professor Dreiling has agreed to serve in this role as he is a well-respected scholar on social movements and has extensive experience as a mediator, having served
as the first faculty union president. Professor Dreiling will promote the values and interests of the university mission, its students, staff, faculty, and administration. Toward this end, Professor Dreiling, collaborating with the UO Senate, shall seek to
codify, in a single text, an agreement between the UO Palestine Coalition and the University of Oregon administration. As this mediation progress moves forward – starting tonight - all parties will enter this dialogue, negotiating in good faith towards an
expectation of agreement and expedited progress.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Cordially,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Gerard Sandoval and Alison Schmitke </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Gerard Francisco Sandoval,</span></b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"> PhD</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">President, <a href="https://senate.uoregon.edu/" target="_blank" title="https://senate.uoregon.edu/">University Senate</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Professor, <a href="https://pppm.uoregon.edu/" target="_blank" title="https://pppm.uoregon.edu/">School of Planning, Public Policy and Management</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">University of Oregon</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">147A Hendricks Hall</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Eugene, OR, 97403-1209</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">541-346-8432</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Alison Schmitke,</span></b><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif"> PhD</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">University Senate Vice President</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif">Senior Lecturer II, Education Studies</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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