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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#163E64;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#163E64;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">SPRING 2025 CONVOCATION<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#163E64;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#163E64;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Thursday, April 17, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#163E64;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#163E64;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">11 a.m. to noon<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#163E64;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#163E64;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">(Classes & offices on the main campus will
be cancelled/closed .)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#163E64;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#163E64;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Faculty, Staff and Students,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#163E64;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#163E64;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">This is a reminder that our Spring 2025 Academic Convocation will be next Thursday,
April 17</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#191919;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#191919;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">,</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#163E64;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#163E64;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">
honor</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#191919;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#191919;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">ing</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#163E64;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#163E64;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">
Dr. Brian Zator, Regents Professor and Professor of Music.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#163E64;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#163E64;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"> Dr. Zator became the university’s
most recent recipient of the highest academic distinction bestowed upon faculty by The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents when named “Regents Professor” for academic year 2023-2024. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#163E64;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#163E64;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#163E64;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#163E64;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Convocation is scheduled from 11 a.m. to noon in the University Music Building,
Concert Hall. </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#191919;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#191919;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#163E64;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#163E64;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">All classes and offices on the main campus will be cancelled/closed from 11 a.m.
to noon to allow students, faculty and staff to attend. Faculty will participate in full academic regalia and gather for the processional at approximately 10:45 a.m. Faculty are asked to enter the Music Building using the sliding glass doors located at the
northeast entrance (closest to the stadium) of the building and will line up in the first-floor hallway of the Music Building.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#163E64;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#163E64;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">Faculty who are unable to attend are to consult their respective dean in advance.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#163E64;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#163E64;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%">We look forward to seeing everyone at the Convocation! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Tammi Vacha-Haase, Ph.D.
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