<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dear Colleagues,</span></div><p dir="ltr" class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please share the following information with students.</span></div><br class=""><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are now inviting applications for the M.S. and Ph.D. programs in </span><span class="" style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rhetoric, Theory and Culture</span><span class="" style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (RTC) at </span><span class="" style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Michigan Technological University</span><span class="" style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. We have a distinctively interdisciplinary character. Our graduate faculty includes nationally recognized scholars in rhetoric and composition, technical communication, communication and media, literature, cultural studies, modern languages, and philosophy. We welcome applications from students looking to make connections across these related fields of research. Most of our students receive funding through teaching, which we support through sustained pedagogical training. Our program is organized through discussion-based seminars, and students are invited to participate in a variety of ways in a vibrant scholarly community.</span></div><br class=""><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We accept applications for admission at any time, but applicants seeking funding should have their applications in to the Michigan Tech Graduate School </span><span class="" style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by January 15, 2022</span><span class="" style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div><p dir="ltr" class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Information about our graduate programs is available </span><a href="http://www.mtu.edu/humanities/" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span class="" style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Please direct any questions to me, Andy Fiss (</span><a href="mailto:afiss@mtu.edu" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">afiss@mtu.edu</span></a><span class="" style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">). </span></div><p dir="ltr" class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you!</span></div><br class=""><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Andy</span></div><div class="" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Andrew Fiss, Ph.D.<br class="">Associate Professor of Professional & Technical Communication<br class="">Director of Graduate Studies, RTC: Rhetoric, Theory, and Culture<br class="">Michigan Technological University Humanities Department<br class=""><a href="mailto:afiss@mtu.edu" class="">afiss@mtu.edu</a> / <a href="http://www.mtu.edu/humanities/" class="">http://www.mtu.edu/humanities/</a> </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class=""></div></body></html>