Dear CSWAC Faculty--

 

It has come to my attention that due to staff transition and a communication snafu, our office neglected to send invitations out to a good half of our CSWAC faculty to our meeting last Monday.  We are deeply sorry for this error.  If you have concerns with regard to the issues covered at the meeting (minutes attached) and would like to discuss them with me, Associate Director Grace Hong, or CSWAC Chair Sarah Haley, do not hesitate to contact any or all of us.

 

On the flipside, given that we invited half of our CSWAC faculty, we had an enormous turn-out for this fall business meeting, with discussion summarized in the attached minutes. Thank you to all who attended and welcome, especially, to our new CSWAC members.

 

Among the big announcements are these:

 

• Rachel Lee will be concluding her five year term as CSW director on June 30, 2020 and has informed the Dean that she will not be seeking a renewal.  (She is looking forward to sabbatical leave.)  CSWAC Chair Sarah Haley will shortly consult with the Dean about forming a search committee for the new Director.  The search will take place in winter quarter with the aim of making recommendations by early spring quarter.

 

• CSW will be fundraising around our 35^th anniversary with “giving days” and our annual Awards ceremony.  We will announce our awards speaker as soon as we get the contract signed. 

 

• The new budgeting model makes long-term planning somewhat difficult.  The ORU directors are meeting to ensure that interdisciplinary research centers such as CSW that truly cross N. and S. campus divides are on EVC Carter’s radar.

 

All the very best,

 

Rachel

 

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Rachel Lee

Director, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Professor of English, Gender Studies, and the Institute of Society & Genetics

Author of The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies (NYU Press, 2014), winner of Best Book in Cultural studies, Association of Asian American Studies 2016

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