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Please aim to have any consultations completed by the end of Wednesday, February 25th.</div>
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This afternoon, I'll be sending you an anticipated timeline for the rest of the committee's work.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Andrea Charette<br>
Director of Faculty Relations and Planning</span></p>
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<b>From:</b> Andrea Charette <andrea.charette@uwaterloo.ca><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 12, 2026 11:17 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> dirssphr@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca <dirssphr@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Tanraj Dulai <tanraj.dulai@uwaterloo.ca>; Jordan Tardif <jatardif@uwaterloo.ca>; Ellen MacEachen <ellen.maceachen@uwaterloo.ca>; Mark Seasons <mark.seasons@uwaterloo.ca>; Alexie Tcheuyap <atcheuyap@uwaterloo.ca><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Fw: invitation from the Director Nominating Committee </div>
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Dear committee members:</div>
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As agreed at our first meeting, I'm happy to provide pairings and assignments for reaching out to your faculty and staff colleagues to encourage and invite input through meetings, if desired.</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" role="presentation">Suzan and Susan, please reach out to pscifac@watarts.uwaterloo.ca and to djakobsh@uwaterloo.ca (RS).</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" role="presentation">Mariam and Riemer, please reach out to socfac@watarts.uwaterloo.ca.</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" role="presentation">Patricia and Phil, please reach out histfac@watarts.uwaterloo.ca and anthfac@watarts.uwaterloo.ca.</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" role="presentation">Doug and Jim, please reach out to philfac@watarts.uwaterloo.ca and clasfac@watarts.uwaterloo.ca.</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" role="presentation">Chris, Brigitte, Robyn, and Sheila, please reach out to staff. (Chris, I believe the three staff are already doing this, but I'd like to include you as an option for staff to speak with as well (paired with
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Mark and Ellen, I will send a follow-up message to the School members to let them know that you are available to receive input, should they wish to speak with externals. I don't expect a huge uptake, but if you do get more requests than you can reasonably
handle, please let me know.</div>
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Tanraj and Jordan, I am hopeful you are in touch with supports that will assist you in forwarding the link to the survey, along with your own encouragement to provide input, to your undergraduate and graduate student peers.</div>
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All best,</div>
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<b>From:</b> UWaterloo Dean of Arts <doa-admin@uwaterloo.ca><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 12, 2026 8:00 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> clasfac@watarts.uwaterloo.ca <clasfac@watarts.uwaterloo.ca>; classtaff@watarts.uwaterloo.ca <classtaff@watarts.uwaterloo.ca>; 'philfac@watarts.uwaterloo.ca' <philfac@watarts.uwaterloo.ca>; philstaff@watarts.uwaterloo.ca <philstaff@watarts.uwaterloo.ca>;
histfac@watarts.uwaterloo.ca <histfac@watarts.uwaterloo.ca>; histstaff@watarts.uwaterloo.ca <histstaff@watarts.uwaterloo.ca>; anthfac@watarts.uwaterloo.ca <anthfac@watarts.uwaterloo.ca>; anthstaff@watarts.uwaterloo.ca <anthstaff@watarts.uwaterloo.ca>; 'socfac@watarts.uwaterloo.ca'
<socfac@watarts.uwaterloo.ca>; 'socstaff@watarts.uwaterloo.ca' <socstaff@watarts.uwaterloo.ca>; pscifac@watarts.uwaterloo.ca <pscifac@watarts.uwaterloo.ca>; pscistaff@watarts.uwaterloo.ca <pscistaff@watarts.uwaterloo.ca>; Jim Diamond <jdiamond@uwaterloo.ca>;
Doris Jakobsh <djakobsh@uwaterloo.ca>; Priti Nayak <p2nayak@uwaterloo.ca>; Scott Kline <scott.kline@uwaterloo.ca><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Jordan Tardif <jatardif@uwaterloo.ca>; Tanraj Dulai <t2dulai@uwaterloo.ca>; Mark Seasons <mark.seasons@uwaterloo.ca>; Ellen MacEachen <ellen.maceachen@uwaterloo.ca>; Alexie Tcheuyap <atcheuyap@uwaterloo.ca>; Jasleen Kaur <j262kaur@uwaterloo.ca>;
Andrea Charette <andrea.charette@uwaterloo.ca><br>
<b>Subject:</b> invitation from the Director Nominating Committee</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">Dear members of Departments becoming the School of Social, Political, and Historical Research,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">The Director Nominating Committee for the School of Social, Political, and Historical Research invites your input into the beginning stages of its work. You are invited to consider and respond to
twelve questions to assist in informing the call for nominations (expected to be issued at the end February) and the criteria we will use to evaluate the nominations and applications.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">Should you wish to meet with two committee members instead of (or in addition to) providing your input online, please reply to this message so those arrangements can be made.</span></p>
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