<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Dear English Majors,<div><br></div><div>I hope you’re doing well.</div><div><br></div><div>We need your help!</div><div><br></div><div>For the second year, the English Department is asking English majors and minors to nominate a faculty member you think goes above and beyond for the undergraduate experience in English.</div><div><br></div><div>This award will recognize an English faculty member for their teaching, mentoring, advising or other contributions to the student learning experience in English, between spring quarter 2025 and winter quarter 2026.</div><div><br></div><div>Please use this link to nominate a faculty member for the 2026 AEnglish Department Award for Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Education:</div><div><br></div><div><div style="display: block;"><div style="-webkit-user-select: all; 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text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">James Tobias, Ph.D.</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Professor <br>Chair, Department of English</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div><div>https://ucr.zoom.us/j/95465985946?pwd=Z1A4Yk1UZDhBTjY5UkJ5R1VQTWUvQT09<br><br><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 9px;">"We at UCR would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our responsibility to the original and current caretakers of this land, water, and air: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. Today this meeting place is home to many Indigenous peoples from all over the world, including UCR faculty, students, and staff, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to live and work on these homelands."</span></div></div></div></div></div>
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