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<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-size: 12pt;">Dear Engineering Faculty Member:</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:#1F497D">If you are teaching a graduate course this Fall, I hope you have received this email from your department’s Graduate Program Director. Other than once graduate course instructor, I have not heard from any other
faculty. Can I request you to please read the email below and please let your Graduate Program Director and I know of the students who are in danger of getting a D or F in your course this Fall by
<b>5 pm tomorrow (Tuesday, October 28, 2019)</b> so that we can advise these students accordingly. If you have done so that is even more effective.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:#1F497D">Best regards,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:#1F497D">Suresh Khator</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:#1F497D">Suresh K. Khator, Ph.D., P.E. Phone: 713-743-4205</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:#1F497D">Associate Dean, College of Engineering Fax: 713-743-4214</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:#1F497D">Professor of Industrial Engineering Email:
<a href="mailto:skhator@uh.edu">skhator@uh.edu</a> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:#1F497D">E421 Engineering Building 2
<a href="http://www.ie.uh.edu/faculty/khator">www.ie.uh.edu/faculty/khator</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:#1F497D">Houston, TX 77204-4008</span></p>
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<b>From:</b> Khator, Suresh <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 17, 2019 4:03 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Donnelly, Vincent M <vmdonnel@Central.UH.EDU>; Feng, May <qfeng@Central.UH.EDU>; Glennie, Craig L <clglenni@Central.UH.EDU>; Grigoriadis, Karolos <mece2hv@Central.UH.EDU>; Han, Zhu <zhan2@Central.UH.EDU>; Jackson, David R <elee1l5@Central.UH.EDU>;
Karim, Alamgir <akarim3@Central.UH.EDU>; Larin, Kirill <klarin@Central.UH.EDU>; Myers, Mike <mtmyers@Central.UH.EDU>; Rifai, Hanadi S <rifai@Central.UH.EDU>; Rimer, Jeffrey <jrimer@Central.UH.EDU>; Sharma, Pradeep <psharma@uh.edu>; Sun, Li <lsun3@Central.UH.EDU>;
Wang, Keh-Han <KWang@Central.UH.EDU><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Tedesco, Joseph W <jtedesco@Central.UH.EDU>; Vernon-Harrison, Miranda A <mavernon@Central.UH.EDU>; Akay, Metin <makay@Central.UH.EDU>; Ballarini, Roberto <rballari@Central.UH.EDU>; Harold, Michael P <MPHarold@Central.UH.EDU>; Lim, Gino J <ginolim@Central.UH.EDU>;
Roysam, Badri <broysam@Central.UH.EDU>; Sharma, Pradeep <psharma@Central.UH.EDU>; Soliman, Mohamed Y <msoliman@Central.UH.EDU><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Graduate Courses</p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dear Graduate Program Directors,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Several of our students receive D or F grades in their courses due to variety of reasons, lack of proper background is certainly one. For international students if they drop below 9 hours they are not full time students. However,
Homeland Security allows an international student to be on Reduced Course Load due to academic reasons for one semester during their entire course of study in addition to RCL during their last semester. When a graduate student gets a D or F their GPA drops
below 3.0 and it is very hard for them to bring it up to 3.0 as it takes three As to make up for an F and two As to make up for a D.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Beginning this semester, I am requesting you to please ask all your graduate course instructors to let you know the names of the students who are doing poorly in their courses and are in danger of getting a D or F. Either you
or I could counsel them to drop the course.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">I would like the graduate course instructors to let us know of these students by October 24<sup>th</sup> (a week from today). I would appreciate to treat this important an urgent. As you know, success of admitted students is
a shared responsibility.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Best regards,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
Suresh Khator</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:#1F497D">Suresh K. Khator, Ph.D., P.E. Phone: 713-743-4205</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:#1F497D">Associate Dean, College of Engineering Fax: 713-743-4214</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:#1F497D">Professor of Industrial Engineering Email:
</span><a href="mailto:skhator@uh.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">skhator@uh.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:#1F497D">
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:#1F497D">E421 Engineering Building 2
</span><a href="http://www.ie.uh.edu/faculty/khator"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">www.ie.uh.edu/faculty/khator</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:#1F497D"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:#1F497D">Houston, TX 77204-4008</span></p>
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