<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks for sending us this report, Sherryl.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I'm new to SFCS, but I'm willing to share that Southeast Asian Studies recently decided to discontinue our undergrad minor for reasons very similar to the challenges listed in the SFCS report.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">One other point to note that wasn't highlighted in the report is that -- if I remember correctly -- student advising and administration of the SFCS minor (like the one for SEAS) falls under the Multi-Disciplinary Unit (MDU). As some of you know the staff in MDU have always been and continue to be overworked and overstretched. That situation is unlikely to change in the near future.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I think it's a good idea to discontinue the undergrad minor now and focus on the graduate DE.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">-- WG</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br><div>Weihsin Gui (he/him/his) <a href="mailto:weihsin.gui@ucr.edu" target="_blank">weihsing@ucr.edu</a></div><div>Associate Professor of English<br></div><div>University of California-Riverside<br></div><div><a href="http://eepurl.com/hqu4cP" target="_blank">MLA Southeast Asia Forum mailing list</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 5:49 PM Sherryl Vint <<a href="mailto:sherrylv@ucr.edu">sherrylv@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Dear colleagues,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Please find attached the report from the internal review of the SFCS minor.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><div class="gmail_default">We are required to give a response to this report by <b>April 25.</b> Please send me any comments you may wish to convey to the Committee on Educational Policy by then.</div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">They are recommending that the minor be discontinued, due to a lack of successful building of an undergraduate cohort, and the ongoing lack of resources on campus.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">As you may recall, after we restructured and renamed the minor in 2017, Nalo Hopkinson was to have taken leadership of this part of the program. She has since separated from UCR.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">A few years ago, when I was assigned to CAP, I also wrote to see if anyone wanted to do the Directorship work for the SFCS program overall, but no one wanted to. We continue to have no budget other than what the Director makes available out of personal research funds. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">If anyone would like to take over the Directorship now, I'd be happy to have someone else step up. In the absence of someone else wanting to do so, I'm happy to continue doing this work for the Graduate DE. GIven my service burden as Chair of English, however, I do not have the capacity to do any building of the Minor.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">If no one expresses an interest in taking leadership for the Minor, I'm going to reluctantly concur that the program should be discontinued. It has a lot of potential, but without anyone putting energy into it, it will continue to flounder.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">best,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Sherryl</div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Sherryl Vint (she/her)</font><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Professor and Chair, Department of English</font></div><div><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font size="1" face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><i>"We at UCR would like to respectfully acknowledge and recognize our </i><i>responsibility to the original and current caretakers of this land, water, </i><i>and air: the Cahuilla, Tongva, Luiseño, and Serrano peoples and all of </i><i>their ancestors and descendants, past, present, and future. 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