<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=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-2176c06d-7fff-5216-3e36-a8293b5c291a" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span 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;" class="">Dear ATTW and CPTSC Colleagues,</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" class=""><span 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;" class=""> </span></p><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span 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;" class="">Please share the following information with students.</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span 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;" class="">We are now inviting applications for the M.S. and Ph.D. programs in </span><span 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;" class="">Rhetoric, Theory and Culture</span><span 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;" class=""> (RTC) at </span><span 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;" class="">Michigan Technological University</span><span 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;" class="">. 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 style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span 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;" class="">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 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;" class="">by January 15, 2023</span><span 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;" class="">.</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" class=""><span 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;" class=""> </span></p><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span 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;" class="">Information about our graduate programs is available at </span><a href="http://www.mtu.edu/humanities/" style="text-decoration:none;" class=""><span 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; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">our department website</span></a><span 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;" class="">. Please direct any questions to me, Andy Fiss (</span><a href="mailto:afiss@mtu.edu" style="text-decoration:none;" class=""><span 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; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">afiss@mtu.edu</span></a><span 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;" class="">). </span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" class=""><span 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;" class=""> </span></p><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span 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;" class="">Thank you!</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span 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;" class="">Andy</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" class=""><span 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;" class=""> </span></p></span></div><div class=""><div class="">
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