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Hey Highlander staff!</div>
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Next <b>Tuesday, March 26 and Wednesday, March 27</b>, we are hosting the fourth annual
<b>UCR Staff Conference</b> -- and we hope you'll join us! <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">
<b><a href="https://bit.ly/2024-ucr-staff-conf" id="LPlnk" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://bit.ly/2024-ucr-staff-conf" data-loopstyle="linkonly">>>> Registration is open now</a></b></span><b><a href="https://bit.ly/2024-ucr-staff-conf" id="LPlnk" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://bit.ly/2024-ucr-staff-conf" data-loopstyle="linkonly">.</a> </b>To
sign up, simply click on the blue button, "<b>Register with your Zoom account</b>." Then, you will "Enter the Lobby" so you can
<b>reserve your spot for any specific sessions</b> that you want to join.</div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This year's conference will be hosted
<b>ONLINE </b>on<b> Zoom Events</b>. We hope that makes for a better attendee experience for all of you. 🙂</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Our </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><b>2024 speaker lineup</b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> includes several
<b>guest presenters</b> that we're excited to share with you: </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Day one keynote:</b> <b><a href="https://www.taramohr.com/" id="LPlnk721707" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.taramohr.com/" data-loopstyle="linkonly">Tara Mohr</a>,
</b>who will present <b>"Stepping into Your Playing Big"</b> – key ideas and practical tools from her internationally acclaimed
<i>Playing Big leadership program </i>and her award-winning book,<i> Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create, and Lead.</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Day two keynote:</b> <b><a href="https://doyinrichards.com/" id="LPlnk" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://doyinrichards.com/" data-loopstyle="linkonly">Doyin Richards</a>,</b> who will present "<b>Real
Talk About Race and Mental Health in America Today</b>"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Jacob Ravenscraft:</b> "</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Positive Traits to Fight the 5 Dysfunctions of a Team"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Jo Mackness & Andenet Emiru</b>, Staff Advisors to the Regents (STARs):
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Overview of summary from UC campus visits</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Jen Bowser</b>, Co-Chair of
<b><a href="https://cucsa.ucla.edu/" id="LPlnk649196" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://cucsa.ucla.edu/" data-loopstyle="linkonly">CUCSA</a></b> (Council of UC Staff Assemblies): "Volunteering to Lead"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Our sponsor, <b>Schools First Credit Union,
</b>on the best ways to save money right now and long term with their School Employee Mortgage programs</span></div>
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We also have several amazing presenters from our UCR colleagues in the schedule. The lineup and session descriptions can all be found on this
<b><a href="https://bit.ly/2024-ucr-staff-conf" id="LPlnk" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://bit.ly/2024-ucr-staff-conf" data-loopstyle="linkonly">registration page</a></b>. Click on each session to open the session summary.</div>
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Lastly, on Wednesday afternoon, we're hosting an <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">
<b>in-person</b></span><b> closing session / staff mixer at the Alumni & Visitors Center from 2:00-3:30 p.m.
</b>There will be snacks, bevvies, and a fun activity led by members of our conference planning committee.
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><b>Please <a href="https://forms.gle/NTjDnmRYswEqxrKWA" id="LPlnk" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://forms.gle/NTjDnmRYswEqxrKWA" data-loopstyle="linkonly">
>>> RSVP</a></b></span> to let us know if you can make it so that we can provide an accurate head count for catering.
<b>Space is limited to 150 attendees</b>, so please register for the closing session – but ONLY if you actually plan to come!</div>
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We do hope you'll brave the wild and wooly outdoors to come celebrate with us, together with your friends and colleagues. Community-building is more important than ever in a remote and hybrid work environment!</div>
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Please email<b> </b>us at <b>staffassembly@ucr.edu</b> if you have any trouble with
<b><a href="https://bit.ly/2024-ucr-staff-conf" id="LPlnk" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://bit.ly/2024-ucr-staff-conf" data-loopstyle="linkonly">registration for the conference</a></b>, or if you have any other questions.</div>
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Thank you,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: white;"><b>Melanie Ramiro</b></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"> </span></p>
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