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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Many of our constituents have been working hard to bring to fruition a new department of Society, Environment and Health Equity. The vote is this week. While the WFA itself is not taking
an official position, we are forwarding communication to our list at their request. We do urge you to participate in the upcoming Senate Divisional meeting and to vote. </p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">At the WFA Fall Retreat, we shared plans for a new Department of Society, Environment, and Health Equity
(SEHE) in CHASS. Our proposal is coming up for a vote at the Senate Divisional meeting on
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700" class="ContentPasted0">FEBRUARY 21 (1-3pm online via zoom)</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0"> and we would like to ask for your support.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">SEHE is designed to house two undergraduate majors: A BA in Environmental Studies and a BA in Health
Equity Studies. Here's our </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1laxO9jXcYIFY4AtzkBzY1LelXk-i-gnJ-yW6nTgqGJg/edit?usp=sharing" class="ContentPasted0 OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="link" id="OWA7e363540-c288-6060-99b7-104d0b0824dc"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17, 85, 204);font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">Executive
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">As you can read in our proposal, there is an urgent need for this department. We believe that SEHE can
help to enrich and enlarge UCR’s partnerships around environment, sustainability, and human and more-than-human health, while offering UCR students a meaningful program of study in the arts, humanities, and social sciences that is relevant to their careers,
Inland Empire communities, and the future health of our planet. SEHE will use existing resources; it will require no additional faculty FTE and minimal additional staff. With the creation of SEHE, UCR will join seven other UCs that already offer interdisciplinary
environmental studies-affiliated undergraduate majors. SEHE graduates will be well placed to enter graduate training in public policy, business, city planning, public health and related fields.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">SEHE proposers are WFA members who have worked for many years to support UCR's mission and our students.
Three of the proposers built the existing Sustainability Studies major from scratch; it is now (as of Spring 22) the second-fastest growing major in CHASS. If the new department is not approved, that major will sunset. We ask WFA members to consider supporting
our work to build institutional infrastructure for our students. As WFA members have noted in the past, this kind of work is often marginalized and devalued on our campus.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:20pt;font-family:"Courier New";font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">Senate Divisional Meeting 2/21/23</span></p>
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</span><span style="text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none" class="ContentPasted0">arts, humanities and social sciences</span><span class="ContentPasted0"> oriented around the environment and health. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="ContentPasted0">Our faculty have expertise in ethnography, sociology, history, literary analysis, geography, feminist theory and political science, with a particular expertise
and emphasis on community-based research methods. Our faculty’s record of research spans areas such as rates of vaccine acceptance, the history of nuclear radiation, occupational health and healthcare labor, the logistics industry, carbon accounting, environmental
justice, race, health and medicine, climate emotions. </span></p>
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</span><span style="text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none" class="ContentPasted0">Sustainability Studies major may sunset</span><span class="ContentPasted0">. Sustainability Studies is the second fastest-growing major in CHASS (S22).</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none" class="ContentPasted0">There are careers for future SEHE graduates</span><span class="ContentPasted0">. Sustainability
Studies alumni are employed in sustainability and environment-related careers. SEHE curricula are designed to prepare students for advanced study and community-based work related to social justice, environment and health disparities. </span></p>
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SEHE department is</span><span style="text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none" class="ContentPasted0"> innovative in focusing on environment and health</span><span class="ContentPasted0">. The intersection of environment and health is especially
relevant to our students and communities in the Inland Empire and beyond.</span></p>
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