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<Summary>Hello Everyone! As we wrap up our amazing year, its time to start preparing for the next! We're excited to open up our E-Board Interest Form for anyone who is interested in joining the leadership...</Summary>
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<Title>Join us next week for our End of Semester Stressbuster event!</Title>
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    <div>We are pleased to announce that finalists for the senior vice provost for academic affairs position will be visiting campus to participate in candidate forums and engage with the UMBC community.</div>
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    <div>We invite you to join us for the third candidate forum:</div>
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    <div>Date: Thursday, May 8, 2025</div>
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<Title>UMBC's Launchpad Accelerator - Applications Due TODAY!</Title>
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    <p>Every student can vote for up to 8 of the candidates: 4 from your college to represent your college, and 4 from the entire pool of candidates to represent all graduate students as Student Affairs Senators. The top vote-getters from each college will be invited to run for Speaker of the Senate during the Senate meeting on 16 May 2025.</p>
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    <p>Here are your candidates for this year's election:</p>
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    <p>And here is your ballot for voting for your preferred candidates:</p>
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    <p><span>You must be logged into your UMBC Gmail account. You can only submit the form once and will not be able to edit it once you have submitted it.</span></p>
    <div>Voting ends <strong>Monday, 12 May 2025, at 11:59 PM</strong>.</div>
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    <div>Please reach out to the Election Committee Co-Chairs if you have any questions:</div>
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    <div>Harika Bathina <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/gaac/posts/149875/41f61/ea9aa31c2cf7b1fcd3589e26d707b7cc/web/link?link=mailto%3Adg18853%40umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">dg18853@umbc.edu</a>
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