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<span style="margin: 0px">My dear friends and colleagues:<br>
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I'm very excited about a major 2019-20 Assessment, Teaching, and Learning Initiative: </span><a href="http://bit.ly/2BpQe3q" title="http://bit.ly/2BpQe3q" style="margin: 0px">Supporting Faculty Engagement in Guided Pathways</a></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px">To that end, we have created a very brief survey with a very long title:<span> </span></span><a href="http://bit.ly/2odbDJM" title="http://bit.ly/2odbDJM" style="margin: 0px">Faculty Understanding of and Role Within Guided Pathways</a></p>
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<b>Action Item: </b><span style="margin: 0px">Please forward the survey link, below, to your faculty, as the more responses we receive, the fuller our understanding:</span></p>
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<li><strong>Initiative One Pager:</strong><span style="margin: 0px"> </span><a href="http://bit.ly/2BpQe3q" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="margin: 0px">http://bit.ly/2BpQe3q</a></li><li><strong>Survey</strong><span style="margin: 0px">:</span><span style="margin: 0px"> </span><span style="margin: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline"><a href="http://bit.ly/2odbDJM" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="margin: 0px">http://bit.ly/2odbDJM</a></span><a href="http://bit.ly/2BpQe3q" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="margin: 0px; text-decoration: underline"><span title="Links to an external site." style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; text-indent: -99999px; overflow: hidden; background-repeat: no-repeat; width: 16px; height: 16px; background-image: url("/dist/images/jqueryui/ui-icons_222222_256x240-a2c05c5e96.png"); background-position: -32px -80px"></span></a></li></ul>
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Should you have comments, questions, or concerns, I'd love to hear them! We can Zoom, meet F2F, chat on the phone ... any modality you like! </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(45, 59, 69)">Please
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:10pt; font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","Avenir Next Condensed Medium",sans-serif; color:rgb(0,55,100); line-height:normal"><b style="line-height:normal">2019-20 ATL Initiative:
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Faculty Engagement in Guided Pathways</a>"</span></span></p>
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Your Voice: </span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","Avenir Next Condensed Medium",sans-serif; font-size:10pt; margin:0px; color:rgb(0,55,100); line-height:normal"><a href="http://bit.ly/2odbDJM" title="http://bit.ly/2odbDJM">Take the Survey</a></span><span style="margin:0px; font-size:10pt; font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; font-size:10pt"></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px; font-size:10pt; font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">The problems of racism in writing classrooms are not primarily pedagogical problems to solve alone. Racism is an assessment problem, which can only be fully solved by changing
the system of assessment, by changing the classroom writing assessment ecology. Thus assessment must be reconceived as an antiracist ecology.</span></p>
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B. Inoue, <i><a href="http://bit.ly/2xvacY4" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies</a></i></span></p>
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