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<div dir="ltr"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #0d0d0d">Dear Colleagues of Engineering,<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #0d0d0d">You might have heard that there are discussions of merging the Undergrad Council, Research Council and Grad and Professional Studies Council into an expanded Faculty Senate,
which will include instructional, research and clinical faculty in addition to the tenured and tenure track faculty.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #0d0d0d">A “Faculty Governance Unification Subcommittee” was created at the “Faculty Governance Retreat” on Oct. 8. Attached FYI is the first report of the subcommittee that will be
discussed at the Faculty Senate Meeting today. </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #0d0d0d">If you have any suggestions or requests, please let Joe Charlson, Shankar Chellam, Dmitri Litvinov, Richard Willson or me know. Thank you.</span><span style="COLOR: #0d0d0d"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #0d0d0d">Shin-Shem Steven Pei</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #0d0d0d">Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #0d0d0d">University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-4005</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #0d0d0d">713-743-4433 (o); 832-228-1161 (cell);</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #0d0d0d">713-743-3621 (Yessica Contreras); 281-241-6001 (fax)</span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #0d0d0d"></span></p>
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