<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14.6667px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Dear colleagues,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Next Thursday (Oct. 28), during the annual CPTSC conference, the </span><a href="https://cptsc.org/committees/administrators/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Administrators Committee</span></a><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline"> welcomes anyone to meet with us who has interest in Open Educational Resources (OER), programmatic database management, or assisting with editorial work on short topic papers selected for publication in </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:italic;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Programmatic Perspectives</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Specifically, the CPTSC Administrators Committee is looking for </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">two project leaders</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline"> to work on either an </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">Open Educational Resources initiative</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline"> that helps CPTSC members to access vetted OER resources as well as someone familiar with database management to work on a </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">programmatic database project</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline"> import.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">We also will be having an open listening session on Saturday (Oct. 30) that seeks input from CPTSC members and interested parties about these topics or suggestions for new project ideas. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline">If you have any questions regarding the committee’s work, or interest in either of the above roles, please contact either Julia Romberger at </span><a href="mailto:jromberg@odu.edu" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11p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