<div dir="ltr">Dear Graduate Students,<div><span class="gmail-il"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail-il">The</span> Political Science Department has received a Call for Nominations for <span class="gmail-il">the</span> Outstanding Teaching Assistant (<span class="gmail-il"><b>OTA</b></span>) Award and <span class="gmail-il">the</span> Distinguished Teaching Award (<b>DTA</b>). Please see below for details.</div><div><br></div><div><b>OTA:</b></div><div><span class="gmail-il"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail-il">The</span> Department is invited to honor <b>two</b> graduate students (plus one alternate) to be recipients of <span class="gmail-il">the</span> Outstanding Teaching Assistant (<span class="gmail-il">OTA) </span>Award. Graduate students who held TA or Associate-In positions during <span class="gmail-il">the</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,252,0)"><b>Winter 2022, Spring 2022, or Fall 2022</b></span> quarters are eligible to be nominated for <span class="gmail-il">the</span> <span class="gmail-il">OTA</span> Award. (<u>Please note that these eligible quarters for the <span class="gmail-il">OTA</span> are slightly <b>different</b> from <span class="gmail-il">the</span> ones listed on <span class="gmail-il">the</span> TADP website</u>). If you wish to apply for this award, please send copies of your teaching evaluations (both numerical and written commentary) from <span class="gmail-il">the</span> relevant quarters to <b>Lori</b> Jaramillo at <a href="mailto:sarah.oatman@ucr.edu" target="_blank"><lorena.jaramillo@ucr.edu></a> no later than <u><b>11:59 PM on Sunday, March 19.</b></u></div><div><br></div><div><b>DTA:</b></div><div><br></div><div>Graduate students who held TA or Associate-In positions during <span style="background-color:rgb(255,252,0)"><b>Spring 2022, Fall 2022, and/or Winter 2023</b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(254,254,254)"> quarter(s)</span> are eligible to be nominated for <span class="gmail-il">the</span> Distinguished Teaching Award (<b>DTA</b>) award. Applications for <span class="gmail-il">the</span> DTA Award must be made <b>directly to <span class="gmail-il">the</span></b> <b>campus</b>. Students may self-nominate for <span class="gmail-il">the</span> DTA. Please see below for details. Please note that self-nominations require an <b>additional</b> nomination letter by faculty, graduate student peers, or undergraduates. The DTA nomination deadline is <u><b>11:59 PM on Sunday, April 9.</b></u></div><div><u><b><br></b></u></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="font-size:12px;margin:0px;clear:both;font-family:"Segoe UI","Segoe UI Web",Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><div style="margin:0px;font-kerning:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;text-decoration-line:underline;line-height:19.425px;font-family:Arial,Arial_EmbeddedFont,Arial_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span style="margin:0px">Call for Nominations for <span class="gmail-il">the</span> Distinguished Teaching Award </span><span style="margin:0px">(<span class="gmail-il">DTA</span>) for Graduate Students 2023</span></span></div></div><div style="font-size:12px;margin:0px;clear:both;font-family:"Segoe UI","Segoe UI Web",Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><p style="margin:0px;font-kerning:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:19.425px;font-family:Arial,Arial_EmbeddedFont,Arial_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span style="margin:0px"></span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:19.425px;font-family:Arial,Arial_EmbeddedFont,Arial_MSFontService,sans-serif"> </span></p></div><div style="font-size:12px;margin:0px;clear:both;font-family:"Segoe UI","Segoe UI Web",Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><div style="margin:0px;font-kerning:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:19.425px;font-family:Arial,Arial_EmbeddedFont,Arial_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span style="margin:0px">Started in 2014, <span class="gmail-il">the</span> Distinguished Teaching Award (<span class="gmail-il">DTA</span>) is a highly competitive award granted by Graduate Division that recognizes exceptional teaching demonstrated by a graduate student as a Teaching Assistant or Associate-In during Spring 2022, Fall 2022, or Winter 2023. While Outstanding Teaching Assistant (<span class="gmail-il">OTA</span>) Awards are determined by <span class="gmail-il">the</span> department and have as many as 100 winners across campus, <b>only two</b> Distinguished Teaching Awards are given annually. Awardees are selected by a committee appointed by Graduate Division based on <span class="gmail-il">the</span> strength of nomination letters and <span class="gmail-il">the</span> nominee’s student teaching evaluations during <span class="gmail-il">the</span> award period. <span class="gmail-il">DTA</span> recipients are recognized with an award and receive a monetary prize. </span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:19.425px;font-family:Arial,Arial_EmbeddedFont,Arial_MSFontService,sans-serif"> </span></div></div><div style="font-size:12px;margin:0px;clear:both;font-family:"Segoe UI","Segoe UI Web",Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><p style="margin:0px;font-kerning:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:19.425px;font-family:Arial,Arial_EmbeddedFont,Arial_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span style="margin:0px"></span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:19.425px;font-family:Arial,Arial_EmbeddedFont,Arial_MSFontService,sans-serif"> </span></p></div><div style="font-size:12px;margin:0px;clear:both;font-family:"Segoe UI","Segoe UI Web",Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><div style="margin:0px;font-kerning:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:19.425px;font-family:Arial,Arial_EmbeddedFont,Arial_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span style="margin:0px"><span class="gmail-il">The</span> UCR Graduate Division invites nominations from faculty, graduate peers, and undergraduate students wanting to honor a graduate student teacher who demonstrated effective, impactful, or innovative approaches to teaching in <span class="gmail-il">the</span> classroom <span class="gmail-il">over</span> <span class="gmail-il">the</span> past year. <b>Please visit our website for more information and <span class="gmail-il">the</span> link to submit nominations:</b> </span></span><a href="https://tadp.ucr.edu/teaching-awards/distinguished-teaching-awards" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" style="margin:0px"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;color:rgb(5,99,193);font-size:12pt;line-height:19.425px;font-family:Arial,Arial_EmbeddedFont,Arial_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span style="margin:0px">https://tadp.ucr.edu/teaching-awards/distinguished-teaching-awards</span></span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:19.425px;font-family:Arial,Arial_EmbeddedFont,Arial_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:19.425px;font-family:Arial,Arial_EmbeddedFont,Arial_MSFontService,sans-serif"> </span></div></div><div style="font-size:12px;margin:0px;clear:both;font-family:"Segoe UI","Segoe UI Web",Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><p style="margin:0px;font-kerning:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:19.425px;font-family:Arial,Arial_EmbeddedFont,Arial_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span style="margin:0px"></span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:19.425px;font-family:Arial,Arial_EmbeddedFont,Arial_MSFontService,sans-serif"> </span></p></div><div style="margin:0px;clear:both;font-family:"Segoe UI","Segoe UI Web",Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><div style="margin:0px;font-kerning:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;margin:0px;outline:transparent solid 1px;line-height:19.425px;font-family:Arial,Arial_EmbeddedFont,Arial_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span style="margin:0px">Questions? Please email </span></span><a rel="noreferrer noopener" style="margin:0px"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;outline:transparent solid 1px;color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration-line:underline;line-height:19.425px;font-family:Arial,Arial_EmbeddedFont,Arial_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span style="margin:0px"></span></span></a><font size="4"><a href="mailto:tadp@ucr.edu" target="_blank" style="">tadp@ucr.edu</a><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Arial_EmbeddedFont,Arial_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none;line-height:19.425px"></span><span style="margin:0px;line-height:19.425px;font-family:Arial,Arial_EmbeddedFont,Arial_MSFontService,sans-serif"> </span></font></div></div><div style="font-size:12px;margin:0px;clear:both;font-family:"Segoe UI","Segoe UI Web",Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><p style="margin:0px;font-kerning:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:19.425px;font-family:Arial,Arial_EmbeddedFont,Arial_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span style="margin:0px"></span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:19.425px;font-family:Arial,Arial_EmbeddedFont,Arial_MSFontService,sans-serif"> </span></p></div><div style="font-size:12px;margin:0px;clear:both;font-family:"Segoe UI","Segoe UI Web",Arial,Verdana,sans-serif"><div style="margin:0px;font-kerning:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;line-height:19.425px;font-family:Arial,Arial_EmbeddedFont,Arial_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span style="margin:0px">Sincerely,</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Arial_EmbeddedFont,Arial_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> </span></div></div></div><div style="font-family:Ga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