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Dear Colleagues, I am writing to thank all of you who shared your
time and talents in ensuring that we were able to launch a <i>First Year
Success Series</i> this fall with such a rich and diverse set of
workshops to new students focused on helping to avoid or negotiate the
common out of class pitfalls of the first year. I encourage you to
log on to the website
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http://success.ucr.edu/content/blogcategory/7/16/</a> (click
<i>Sign Up Now</i></font> at the top of the page to review the complete
list of workshop offerings) and become more familiar with the
series. To encourage student participation in our first year of the
series we have contacted faculty teaching introductory courses across the
university and asked permission to include a link to the series in the
<i>Resources</i> folder of each course's iLearn website. We are
additionally are offering an incentive for participation. Each week
students who attended a FYSS workshop during the week will be entered in
to a drawing for a $200 bookstore gift certificate. Your help in
encouraging first year students to take advantage of the help and support
available from the division of Student Affairs, Housing, UCR Libraries
and Computing and Communications would be tremendously helpful and
appreciated!<br><br>
Thank you again, <br>
The First Year Success Series Implementation Team<br>
Susan Allen Ortega, Diane LeGree, Jami, Grosser, Jennifer Miller, Scott
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