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<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear Colleagues,</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">I'm writing to share about a new program to help colleges and universities take stock of the services they provide to support faculty and improve their offerings, which
will likely be of interest to many on this listserv.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Ithaka S+R's Instructional Support Assessment Institute</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> will bring together representatives from
the library, teaching and learning centers, information technology, accessibility services, and faculty development offices to review and update their institution’s approach to assessing instructional support needs. Together we will gather qualitative and
quantitative evidence that will allow participating colleges and universities to create a coordinated, cross-campus strategy for instructional support, including the capacity to track the evolving practices and needs of instructors.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The program
<b>begins this fall, and we welcome expressions of interest</b>. The call for participants can be found
<a href="https://sr.ithaka.org/blog/crafting-your-institutions-strategy-for-instructional-support/" target="_blank">
here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Warmly, Danielle<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404042;mso-ligatures:none">Danielle Cooper (she/her)</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404042;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
Director, Libraries Scholarly Communications, and Museums<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Ithaka S+R<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404042;mso-ligatures:none">Twitter:
<a href="https://twitter.com/dm_cooper"><span style="color:blue">@dm_cooper</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404042;mso-ligatures:none">Linkedin:
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielle-miriam-cooper/"><span style="color:blue">Danielle Miriam Cooper</span></a><br>
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