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Dear Colleagues,
As we move through Week Nine, I’d like to express appreciation for our exceptional UC San Diego students.
Ever since the pandemic began, our students have been tightly focused on preserving a sense of community and supporting one another. Their careful compliance with requirements for symptom screening, testing, isolation, masking, social distancing, and other safety practices is a large part of how UC San Diego has successfully avoided campus outbreaks even though we had over 9.000 students living on campus during the past year. And student leadership, through the GPSA and Associated Students, was essential to all of the strategic planning for Return-to-Learn.
At the same time, our students have kept up their academic momentum, engaged in research and creative activity, and pursued internship experiences. As they navigate these last few weeks, full of due dates for important homework assignments, projects, papers, and exams, I ask that you please continue to offer students the caring and compassionate approach you have been showing them throughout the pandemic.
Please join me in congratulating the Class of 2021 who will graduate a few weeks from now!
Best wishes,
Elizabeth H. Simmons
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Compassion during finals
We encourage instructors to approach Spring ‘21 finals with empathy for all Triton community members. Exams are stressful under ordinary circumstances and the ongoing challenges we face related to the pandemic may contribute to heightened anxiety and difficulties with academic performance. Providing students with empathy and support through this particularly difficult period will help ensure their academic progress is not negatively impacted by the disruptions experienced over the past year. Please review the Remote Exam FAQs for Educators for additional guidance.
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Ethics in the Public Sphere lecture
Join the Department of Philosophy on June 3 for a presentation by Jeff McMahan, Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University, titled “How Can Procreation be Permissible?”
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Upcoming Return to Learn town halls
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We will continue to have town halls throughout the summer, including combined sessions for faculty and researchers. Please be sure to check the Return to Learn website for dates.
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Enrollment Management transitions
Please join us in congratulating Adele Brumfield, Associate Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Management, and LeShane Saddler, Director of Admissions, on their acceptance of leadership positions at the University of Michigan and St. Ambrose University (respectively). During their tenure at UC San Diego, we saw record-breaking numbers of applications and made significant gains in attracting and retaining excellent students from historically underrepresented groups. We wish them all the best in their new roles.
While we will miss Adele and LeShane, we will be in good hands with Debi Kammerer, a UC San Diego alumna who will serve as Interim Director of Admissions during the transition.
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UC salary increases
We are pleased to share that salary scales for academic appointees will be increased by a general range adjustment of 3%. Effective July 1, 2021, salary scales for non-faculty, non-represented academics, including academic administrators, academic coordinators, and continuing educators, will increase by 3%. Full-time faculty administrators will be eligible for a 3% merit-based increase. Effective October 1, 2021, professorial and teaching professor scales, graduate student researcher scales, and the scales for academic student employees will be increased by 3%.
In addition, there will be a 3% general salary increase for eligible staff (policy-covered, non-represented) employees. The salary increase will take effect July 1, 2021 for monthly paid employees and July 21, 2021 for bi-weekly paid employees.
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New and improved marketing resources
To ensure the highest possible quality of marketing materials, academic and administrative departments are now required to seek approval from University Communications for all marketing materials designed for external audiences, as well as highly visible materials designed for internal audiences such as large-format banners, pole banners, and major event signage. More information can be found on the brand site, but please don’t hesitate to reach out to brand@ucsd.edu if you have additional questions.
Lastly, the Marketing Council has launched a Marketing Channel Directory – a comprehensive list of promotional vehicles on campus. This directory is intended to serve as a one-stop repository of campus communication channels to help you identify the best ways to get your message in front of your target audience.
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Staff Association elections
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Error for Outlook iPhone users
ITS has discovered that Outlook iPhone users who have their university mail configured using the built-in mail app are no longer receiving emails (this issue does not appear to affect UC San Diego Gmail iPhone users).
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Time to Rock and Roach: Bringing Experiments from the...
With the global COVID-19 pandemic forcing many biology students out and away from the traditional lab setting, Division of Biological Sciences professors at UC San Diego had to rethink what it meant to do hands-on activities. Their solution? To...
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biology.ucsd.edu
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$5 Million Grant Grows Capacity of UC San Diego's...
It's hard to deny there are social and environmental challenges at the San Diego-Tijuana border. But where some fold their hands in despair or show up to protest vociferously yet briefly, others see vibrant opportunities and stay to do the hard...
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ucsdnews.ucsd.edu
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Cross Border Effort to Vaccinate 10,000 Maquiladora Workers
A coalition of six United States subsidiary companies have sponsored a COVID-19 mobile clinic to vaccinate 10,000 maquiladora workers employed in Baja California, Mexico. "We started, six to eight months ago, talking to the private sector on how...
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ucsdnews.ucsd.edu
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UC San Diego Response to Pandemic Recognized with...
The University of California San Diego has received the 2021 American Council of Education/Fidelity Investments Award for Institutional Transformation for its science-based, real-time approach to maintaining a low infection rate among students,...
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