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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Greetings COPLAC IR/IE colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">In a communication today with Nancy Thomas, director of the National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement at Tufts University, she informed me of her concern
that only 8 of the 26 COPLAC institutions have signed on to the project. They are holding off on running the data, because they can only run the batches of records once, and many of the comparison groups, including our COPLAC group are not large enough to
be able to use for the study.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">If you have not done so, I hope that you might consider joining this initiative and submitting your authorization form as soon as possible. It would be a shame
to miss out on this new potential quality indicator of civic engagement given that this is a current interest of the COPLAC presidents.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><a href="http://www.civicyouth.org/about-circle/nslve/">http://www.civicyouth.org/about-circle/nslve/</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Thank you for your consideration, and I hope to meet many of you in
<st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">West Virginia</st1:place></st1:State> in a couple of weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Laura Coghlan</span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Director of Institutional Research and Assessment</span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">The Evergreen
<st1:place w:st="on">State College</st1:place></span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Olympia</span></font></st1:City><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">,
<st1:State w:st="on">WA</st1:State></span></font></st1:place><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">(360) 867-6676</span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family:Arial"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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