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<span class="normaltextrun"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;background:white">As a result of</span></u></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;background:white"> </span></u></b></span><span class="normaltextrun"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;background:white">its
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;background:white">Please note: You may be enrolled in only one ACUE course at a time. Internal ACUE research indicates that a course participant spends approximately
 2-3 hours of activity per week, on average, in each ACUE course.</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;background:white"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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 more information about the ACUE and Texas A&M System partnership, please visit the Scaling Instructional Excellence for Student Success page. </a></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://www.tamuc.edu/collin-higher-education-center/">(CHEC),</a> Office 124<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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