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<div class="">Dear colleagues,</div>
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<div class="">As the subject lines indicates, this is another quick reminder that Climate and Diversity will be holding a department-wide Town Hall meeting tomorrow, 3:30 pm, SSR. Based on requests from the community, the two topics to be discussed will be:</div>
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1. Mental health concerns for PhD students and postdocs:</i> What resources are currently in place, what initiatives are planned/under way, what else could we be doing as a department to address this challenge?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class=""><i class="">2. How we, as a department, define climate and equity:</i> For example, at what point do individuals having negative experiences constitute an overall negative climate for the department?
An individual? 10% of our community? More than 50%? How might we ensure equitable treatment of individuals in interactions between subgroups of our department (i.e. between instructional staff, lecturers, TAs, faculty, within research groups, etc.)?</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);" class="">I look forward to seeing you all </span><font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">tomorrow!</span></font></div>
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<font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">Best wishes,</span></font></div>
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<font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">Zeke Johnston-Halperin</span></font></div>
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<font color="#222222" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class="">Chair, Climate and Diversity Committee</span></font></div>
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