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<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sent on behalf of Interim Dean John Colombo</span></i></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">To the faculty, staff, and graduate students of the Department of Political Science:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I am writing in regard to your department’s search for its next department chair. I am pleased to let you know that your colleague John Kennedy has accepted this position, with a term scheduled
to begin on July 1, 2021, and to end on June 30, 2026. At that time, he would be eligible for being considered for reappointment.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">As you know, Professor Kennedy will succeed Don Haider-Markel. I would like to thank Professor Haider-Markel for his service and wish him well in his next endeavors.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I would also like to thank you for your participation and feedback during the process of selecting new leadership for your department. In particular, I would like to thank Robert Rohrschneider
for serving as chair of the search committee.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please join me in congratulating – and thanking – Professor Kennedy for taking on this important role.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">John Colombo, PhD</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Professor of Psychology</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Director, Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Interim Dean, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences</span></p>
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