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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:19.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'><img width=750 height=150 id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CD3219.C1F12530" alt="Description: University of San Diego"></span><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='line-height:19.5pt'><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>School of Business Administration<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='line-height:19.5pt'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:19.5pt'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>Deborah Kelly and myself are engaged with a research project in which we could use your assistance. We are attempting to determine perceptions and opinions about online education, specifically undergraduate courses but graduate courses as well. Could you please consider taking a few minutes to fill out our survey (in our limited testing it appears to take less than 10-15 minutes)? It is located at this URL <a href="http://usdbusiness.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_5zJEZySThuOkRUg">http://usdbusiness.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_5zJEZySThuOkRUg</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:19.5pt'><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black'>Thanks in advance for your time and consideration.<br> <br>Carl Rebman and Deborah Kelly<br> <br></span><span style='color:#1F497D'><img border=0 width=274 height=75 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.png@01CD3219.C1F12530" alt="Description: Description: cid:image001.png@01CB9887.C871F6F0"></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Carl M. Rebman Jr., Ph.D.<br>Associate Professor of Information Systems & Electronic Commerce<br>President & Publications Coordinator Southwest Decision Sciences Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>University of San Diego<br>School of Business Administration<br>5998 Alcala Park West<br>Coronado 212<br>San Diego, CA 92110<br>619-260-4135<br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:navy'><a href="mailto:carlr@sandiego.edu" title="blocked::mailto:carlr@sandiego.edu"><span style='color:blue'>carlr@sandiego.edu</span></a><br><a href="http://carl.sandiego.edu/"><span style='color:blue'>http://carl.sandiego.edu</span></a></span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>