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<span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="elementToProof">Dear Graduate Students and Faculty, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Graduate Division is launching R’Grad 2.0 next week! This updated system will allow Grad Division to retire DocuSign and extend the benefits of R’Grad to almost all graduate student petitions and forms. We are excited about this
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; background:yellow">IMPORTANT DATES</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; background:yellow">Monday 9/26 and Tuesday 9/27 – R’Grad UNAVAILABLE</span></li><li class="x_MsoListParagraph" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;margin-left:0in">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt; background:yellow">Wednesday 9/28 – R’Grad 2.0 LIVE</span></li></ul>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">DOCUMENTATION</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">While R’Grad is down, Grad Division is updating links and information on the <a href="https://live-ucr-graduate.pantheonsite.io/petitions-and-forms" data-auth="NotApplicable">Petitions and Forms</a> page to direct everyone there
instead of DocuSign. </span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">DOCUSIGN</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Graduate Division is removing links directing people to DocuSign. Forms that are currently submitted in the DocuSign system will still be processed, but no new forms should be submitted once we are live with R’Grad 2.0.
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Any questions or concerns about R’Grad after we go live can be sent to
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">With regards,</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt">Kara</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><b style="font-size: 12pt; color: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Kara Oswood</span></b></p>
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Director, Graduate Academic Affairs</p>
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Graduate Division | University of California, Riverside</p>
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Office: 951-827-3387 (office) | <a href="mailto:kara.oswood@ucr.edu" data-auth="NotApplicable">
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<span style="color:black; background:yellow">To book a Zoom meeting with me, please use this </span><a href="https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/UCR1@o365ucr.onmicrosoft.com/bookings/" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/UCR1@o365ucr.onmicrosoft.com/bookings/"><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in; background:yellow">LINK</span></a><span style="color:black; background:yellow"> to
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