Events Calendar

We know, sometimes making the live event is impossible.  To help, we try to record CCI events when the presentation format and content can be reviewed effectively as a video.

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AI SERIES: What is AI and Generative AI? A Computer Science Perspective
Presenter: Laura M Grabowski and the Computer Science Department
The Generative AI Workshop Series is presented by the SUNY Potsdam AI Working Group.
Session 1 Overview: 
Goal: Attendees will be able to recognize the capabilities of generative AI

• How generative AI works
• How is it trained and what does training mean
• What it can do
• What it can't do
• How do we detect it

View the VIDEO on the CCI YouTube site.

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AI SERIES: Generative AI and Career Development (student-focused)
Presenter: Jenica Rogers
The Generative AI Workshop Series is presented by the SUNY Potsdam AI Working Group.
Session 2 Overview: 
This student-focused session will give student participants the opportunity to discuss and consider the proper use of AI technology with session participants and session leaders.
Outcomes:

• Get students thinking about career goals and preparation.
• Educate students on how AI is used in the hiring process on the employer side.
• Show students healthy ways to use career-focused text generators for their own career portfolios.
• Demonstrate useful critical thinking techniques for selecting AI tools for personal use.
• Start students on the path to understanding how AI knowledge and skills can advantage them in the workforce.

Questions attendees may have:

• “Can I just use AI to write my cover letters?”
• “Is there any good way to use AI for job stuff?”
• “What are the best AI tools to use?”
• “Is there an advantage to being able to use AI tools?”

View the VIDEO on the CCI YouTube site. 
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AI SERIES: AI in the Research Process and the Classroom
Presenter: Bryan Kvet, College Libraries
The Generative AI Workshop Series is presented by the SUNY Potsdam AI Working Group.
Session 3 Overview: 

• Discuss how students appear to be using ChatGPT
• Dangers of hallucinations in research
• Possible assignments using ChatGPT?
• Introduce Semantic Scholar & Elicit AIs for research purposes

View the VIDEO on the CCI YouTube site.
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HR Training Webpage

Human Resources manages a Training and Development webpage that lists several programs.  You will find information and resources on Compliance and Accessibility training (FYI- the BizLibrary compliance training site also includes a video tutorial library on various topics including Microsoft M365 applications).  You can also find information about SUNY CPD Points, which can pay for Center for Professional Development events.
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Career Readiness Champion Certificate Program

The SUNY Center for Professional Development and the SUNY Career Development Office Community of Practice have developed the framework for a Career Readiness Champion Certificate Program. The overarching goal of the program is to help faculty and staff on college campuses to learn the competencies (knowledge and skills) needed to create a campus culture focused on supporting students in planning for a career.

To receive an overall completion certificate, participants must complete a series of three courses which contain various learning activities delivered in an online, asynchronous format using the SUNY Center for Professional Development learning management system (LMS). See details of delivery and activities within each course description. Each course will require approximately 1 – 3 hours of “outside” course work. 

Target Audience

The audience for this program is all college and university faculty and staff who teach, advise, or work with students in any context in which their career plans are relevant including:

• Concierge and Success Coaches
• Academic Advisors
• Counselors/Mental Health Care Providers
• EOP Personnel
• Student Affairs Staff
• Faculty
• Athletic Coaching Staff

Learning Objectives

• Gain a Practical Understanding of the Career Development Process, Resources and Tools
• Effectively Communicate with Students about Career Choices and Planning
• Learn How to Integrate Career Readiness Into Your Role and the Advising Process, and How to Contribute to Creating a Career Culture on Your Campus

Program Completion Requirements

• To earn the Career Readiness Champion Certificate, participants must complete all three courses. It is recommended that courses be taken in order.
• Participants should be prepared to spend 2-4 hours per week on outside course work. 

You may view this informational webinar recording for a brief overview of each course in the program.

Course 1: An Introduction to the Career Development Process

Course Description: This course is designed for faculty and staff involved in providing advising, coaching and career exploration activities both in and out of the classroom to learn the competencies (knowledge and skills) needed to create a campus culture focused on supporting students in planning for a career. 

Participants in this 6-week online course will go through a series of discussions and activities designed to facilitate an understanding of national standards and practices surrounding career development and how they can be integrated into their everyday work to achieve better outcomes as they relate to career integration for their student populations. 

Course Learning Outcomes

• Articulate the NACE (National Association of Colleges and Employers) career competencies
  • Participants will give an example of how their work helps their students develop one of the NACE Career competencies and indicate how it is evidenced by student behaviors.
• Understand the basics of a few significant career exploration theories
  • Learn about the 5 major career development theories
  • Gain an understanding of the approaches that their campus’s career center takes when working with students
• Identify career exploration theories appropriate to your work role and student population
  • Participants will identify two theories that could be applied to their work with students
• Identify career assessments appropriate in your work role and student population
  • Understand practical application of career assessments
• Understand ethical guidelines and principles as they relate to career exploration and hiring practices and processes
  • Review NACE Ethical guidelines
• Meet students where they are to identify their next steps in career planning
  • Participants will gain an understanding of how to assist students they work with in identifying next steps in career planning

Course 2: Designing Your Career Development Toolkit

Course Description: This course is designed to assist student facing faculty and staff in developing a comprehensive understanding of career development available technologies, online resources, the role of campus career centers, and strategies to enable every student to pursue the job of their dreams.

In this 6-week course, participants will gain a holistic understanding of how the NACE competencies are relevant to your work role. We will explore each of the competencies to establish a connection to your campus role to implement best practices for career exploration, recruitment, and hiring.

We will navigate global career assessment tools and resources to support the research, understand of labor market data, and correlate career pathways to enable you and your students to make informed decisions while exploring their career options.

The course will also highlight the opportunities to partner with your campus career development center to discover resources and build effective relationships for referrals and further coaching. This course will also highlight ethical considerations encountered by diverse student populations and methods to confront and resolve barriers.

Course Learning Outcomes

• Connect the NACE career competencies to your work role and student population
• Utilize career assessments appropriate in your work role and student population
• Be able to apply ethical guidelines and principles as they relate to career exploration and hiring practices and processes
• Know where to locate and interpret labor market data and how this data relates to creating an informed and career focused student body
• Learn the responsibilities of your campus career development office and know when to refer students to that office
• Effectively work with diverse students to identify equity and inclusion obstacles

Course 3: Integrating Career Development into Your Role & Campus Culture

Course Description: This course is designed for faculty and staff who teach, advise, or work with students in any context where their career planning is relevant. Participants in this capstone course will devise a concrete plan to integrate career development into their campus roles in meaningful and transformative ways. 

This course will provide opportunities to review national data, best practices, and explore innovative strategies to engage students, and the collective campus, to create a culture of career readiness through discussion and application.  Participants will also be challenged to address diversity, access, and inclusion issues related to career development in higher education. 

Course Learning Outcomes

• Apply the NACE career competencies to your work role and student population
  • Examine where career competencies can be intentionally designed and enhanced to improve student career readiness
  • Learn how to assess career readiness and share outcomes
• Apply career exploration theory appropriate to your work role and student population
  • Articulate relevant career exploration strategies that will be used in their campus role
  • Design plans to implement strategies to meet diverse student and institutional needs
• Selectively utilize the appropriate career assessments appropriate in your work role and student population
  • Illustrate how career assessments can enhance career readiness in their campus role
• Incorporate ethical guidelines and principles as they relate to career exploration and hiring practices and processes into your work role.
  • Apply NACE ethical guidelines and equity-minded practices
• Know how to develop a transfer or graduate school pathway for students
  • Understand barriers for students navigating pathways to achieve higher education
  • Develop strategies to clearly identify pathways for students transferring to 4-year institutions or graduate programs
• Incorporate effective strategies to help diverse students strategize how to overcome obstacles to their career plan
  • Understand how to design accessible and inclusive high impact practices in their respective roles
  • Apply strategies to increase access and inclusion to increase career readiness for all students
• Understand how to create and implement customized career development programs (majors, departments) when needed
  • Design, implement, and assess customized career development programs specific to their role, students, and institution

Group Discounts Available:

Additional discounts are available to groups of the following size attending the same program:

• 5-9 people = 10% discount
• 10-19 people = 15% discount
• 20-29 people = 20% discount

Please send your request to cpdinfo@suny.edu at least 30 days prior to the start of the course/program.

How to Pay:

Available payment methods are:

• Credit Card (Mastercard or Visa)
• CPD General Points
• Campus Check
• Journal Transfer

FULL payment is required 30 days from the date of registration. CPD Points are accepted. Prior approval is required. If points are denied, the registrant is responsible for the payment.

Journal Transfer: An account number with authorizing signature for Journal Transfers is required within 48 hours. You must print and return the invoice that is included with the registration confirmation email. 

Register for Spring/Summer 2026

Spring:

• Course 1: An Introduction to the Career Development Process - January 6 through February 16
• Course 2: Developing Your Career Development Toolkit - February 17 through March 30
• Course 3: Integrating Career Development into Your Role & Campus Culture - March 31 through May 11

Summer:

• Course 1: An Introduction to the Career Development Process - May 12 through June 22
• Course 2: Developing Your Career Development Toolkit - July 7 through August 17
• Course 3: Integrating Career Development into Your Role & Campus Culture - September 22 through November 2

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Data Literacy Essentials for Higher Education Professionals

Higher education professionals need to understand how to use data to answer operational and strategic questions. This online asynchronous program delivered in Brightspace provides an overview of understanding data creation, use, analysis, interpretation, and storytelling for higher education professionals looking to increase their data literacy skills.

Participants will build confidence and competency using data by learning and practicing techniques for incorporating data into their daily work and career goals. The target audience for this program is anyone working in higher education (faculty, staff, administrators) who analyzes data or makes data-based recommendations or decisions.

There are two online asynchronous courses delivered in Brightspace. The courses are 6 weeks in length each, and they contain approximately 3 to 5 hours of work each week. The courses are interactive (not self-paced) with instructor feedback to participants and capped at 20 registrants.  

Course One is a required pre-requisite for Course Two. The pre-requisite can be waived for those who have significant experience and expertise utilizing the Course One learning objectives in higher education. A digital badge will be awarded for the completion of each course. 

Course 1: Fundamentals of Working with Data

Course Description: This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the basics of data literacy in higher education covering the data lifecycle, governance, and analysis. Participants will gain a foundational understanding of key data concepts and terminology including the essential components of data analysis.

Those who complete this course should be able to:

• Understand the data lifecycle, basic data governance concepts, and common data terminology in the higher education ecosystem.
• Understand data analysis basics including:
• How to develop a research question that can be answered with objective and unbiased source data;
• Basic statistical concepts and the most common analytical techniques to make sense of data;
• How to mine, refine, and prepare data for analysis.
• Know how to conduct research involving human subjects including how to utilize surveys and engage with an Institutional Review Board (IRB).
• Know how to identify the key takeaways from the data analysis (how they answer the research question) in an executive summary.
• Critically evaluate data and data visualizations to recognize when it is being used incorrectly, unethically, or inappropriately.  

Course 2: Storytelling with Data

Course Description: This course builds on foundational data analysis skills to learn how to transform data insights into compelling and informative stories tailored for specific audiences in higher education. It is designed for those who have completed Course One or can demonstrate equivalent knowledge. 

Those who complete this course should be able to: 

• Transform data insights into compelling and informative stories crafted for specific audiences.
• Engage diverse higher education stakeholders to gain their confidence and determine their objectives/goals in relation to the data analysis.
• Select appropriate data and visualization tools depending on the needs of the target audience(s).
• Create engaging, creative, and accessible presentations utilizing evidence-informed best practices. 

Group Discounts Available:

Additional discounts are available to groups of the following size attending the same program:

• 5-9 people = 10% discount
• 10-19 people = 15% discount
• 20-29 people = 20% discount

Please send your request to cpdinfo@suny.edu at least 30 days prior to the start of the course/program.

How to Pay:

Available payment methods are:

• Credit Card (Mastercard or Visa)
• CPD General Points
• SUNY Online+ Points
• Campus Check
• Journal Transfer

FULL payment is required 30 days from the date of registration. CPD Points are accepted. Prior approval is required. If points are denied, the registrant is responsible for the payment.

Register for Spring 2026 (Summer and Fall registrations will open closer to course start.)

2026 Course Dates:

• Spring 2026
  • Fundamentals of Working with Data — January 6 through February 16
  • Storytelling with Data — February 17 through March 30
• Summer 2026 (Registration not yet open)
  • Fundamentals of Working with Data — May 12 through June 22
  • Storytelling with Data — June 23 through August 3
• Fall 2026 (Registration not yet open)
  • Fundamentals of Working with Data — August 25 through October 5
  • Storytelling with Data — October 6 through November 16

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DEISJ Curriculum Development Certificate Program

The purpose of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice (DEISJ) Curriculum Development Certificate Program is to help faculty and others involved in teaching SUNY General Education learn the knowledge and skills necessary to create course content that meets the SUNY DEISJ Gen Ed student learning outcomes. A group of SUNY DEISJ faculty fellows and SUNY staff developed the program framework. All courses are six-weeks, asynchronous online and take 2-4 hours each week to complete. The courses are interactive with instructor feedback to participants and capped at 20 registrants. 

Target Audience

The audience for this program are all college and university faculty and staff who teach, advise, or work with students in any context in which their career plans are relevant including:

• Faculty
• Adjuncts/Part-time Faculty
• Librarians
• Graduate & Teaching Assistants
• Staff with Instructional Responsibilities (Instructional Designers, Student Affairs, Diversity/Equity/Inclusion Office)

Learning Objectives

Those who complete the program should be able to: 

• Design and teach courses in their discipline that meet the SUNY DEISJ general education requirements. To achieve this learning outcome, participants will
  • Understand how the DEISJ LOs intersect with their disciplinary LOs;
  • Create course learning outcomes, selecting appropriate content, and creating effective assignments and assessments; and
  • Develop strategies to help students engaged with the content and achieve the DEISJ LOs.
• Understand and articulate the key terms, research, and scholarly conversations in the content areas related to the SUNY DEISJ learning outcomes. These include the following:
  • Historical and contemporary societal factors that shape the development of individual and group identity involving race, class, and gender;
  • The role that complex networks of social structures and systems play in the dynamics of power, privilege, oppression, and opportunity; and
  • The relationship between principles of rights, access, equity, and autonomous participation to past, current, or future social justice action.
• Reflect critically on how the instructor’s own background shapes their approach to helping students learn about DEISJ

Program Completion Requirements

• To earn the DEISJ Certificate, participants must complete all three courses. Digital badges will be awarded for each individual course as well as an overall completion digital badge. 

Course 1: Foundational Concepts in DEISJ

Instructor: Lauren Diamond-Brown

Course Description: The purpose of this course is for participants to gain the tools necessary to design their courses to meet the SUNY General Education Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice (DEISJ) student learning outcomes. The course utilizes a social justice education framework, an approach that emphasizes a critical understanding of how inequality operates and how actors can create positive social change towards a more equitable and inclusive society. The course explores topics such as implicit biases, intersectionality, and institutional inequality.

Course Learning Outcomes: 

Upon successful completion of the course, participants should be able to do the following:

• Define, describe, and analyze topics related to the SUNY DEISJ Gen Ed student learning outcomes, including these:
  • The historical and contemporary societal factors that shape the development of individual and group identity involving race, class, and gender;
  • The role that complex networks of social structures and systems play in the creation and perpetuation of the dynamics of power, privilege, oppression, and opportunity;
  • The principles of rights, access, equity, and autonomous participation to past, current, or future social justice action;
• Begin to apply these concepts & theories to developing the curriculum for a DEISJ course.

Course 2: Select Topics in DEISJ 

Instructor: Milo Obourn

Course Description: This course offers a “deeper dive” into several areas of DEISJ content. Because there is so much to cover and participants have diverse interests and preexisting knowledge bases, this course offers three “tracks” all leading to the same final projects—1. a class exercise or assignment and 2. an annotated bibliography for a course you might like to teach in your area of study. Our tracks follow the DEISJ general education outcomes to some extent focusing on 1) Gender, Race, Class and their Intersections; 2) Equity as a concept directly tied to systems of Power that create and recreate Oppression and Privilege; and 3) Diverse models of Social Justice Formations in theory and action. 

Course Learning Outcomes: 

Upon successful completion of the course, participants should be able to do the following:

• Articulate how issues related to “gender,” “race,” “class,” and “intersectionality” OR
  “equity vs. equality,” “equity and power,” and “equity and material justice” OR “social
  justice,” “principles of rights,” and “access and accessibility” shape and inform your
  curriculum.
• Identify, describe, and discuss diverse approaches to teaching gender, race, and class OR
  principles of equity OR social justice movements.
• Understand, identify, and analyze the historical and current social constructions of race,
  class, and gender OR historical and current debates about equity OR historical and
  current formations of social justice movements.
• Revise elements of a current course or develop resources for a new course related to:
  societal factors that shape the development of individual and group identity involving
  race, class, and gender OR the role that complex networks of social structures and
  systems play in the creation and perpetuation of the dynamics of equity, power,
  privilege, oppression, and opportunity OR the principles of rights, access, equity, and
  autonomous participation and their relation to past, current, or future social justice
  action.

Course 3: Building Your DEISJ Curriculum

Instructors: Chloe Diamond-Lenow & Lauren Diamond-Brown

Course Description: Participants will, through reflective exercises and guided conversation, revamp an existing course or create a new one to fulfill DEISJ SLOs. In this course, participants will use the broader DEISJ context they have examined in the previous two courses to re-see their own disciplinary content.    

Course Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course, participants should be able to do the following: 

• Design or redesign one or more courses in their discipline that meet the SUNY DEISJ general education requirements. Courses should demonstrate:
  • how the DEISJ LOs intersect with their disciplinary LOs;
  • appropriate course learning outcomes, content, effective assignments, and assessments; and
  • strategies to help students engage with the content and achieve the DEISJ LOs.
• Reflect critically on how their own background shapes their approach to helping students learn about DEISJ.

Group Discounts Available:

Additional discounts are available to groups of the following size attending the same program:

• 5-9 people = 10% discount
• 10-19 people = 15% discount
• 20-29 people = 20% discount

Please send your group request to cpdinfo@suny.edu at least 30 days prior to the start of the course/program.

How to Pay:

Available payment methods are:

• Credit Card (Mastercard or Visa)
• CPD General Points
• SUNY Online+ Points
• Campus Check
• Journal Transfer

CPD General/Technical Points: To pay with CPD General or Technical Points, your campus must be a CPD Member. Check if your campus is a member. It is the responsibility of the registrant to determine if enough points are available to use BEFORE completing the registration process. Please contact your Campus Points Contact to determine points eligibility.  If points are denied, the registrant is responsible for the payment. 

SUNY Online+:  To pay with SUNY Online+ Points, you must receive prior approval, and you must submit a request via the SUNY Online+ CPD Points Approval Form.

Campus Check: Prior campus approval is required. Make check payable to SUNY Center for Professional Development. Mail to SUNY CPD at the address below. 

Journal Transfer (State Operated Campuses Only): Prior campus approval is required. An account number with authorizing signature for Journal Transfers is required within 48 hours. You must print and return the invoice that is included with the registration confirmation email.

Important: FULL payment is required 30 days from the date of registration. For more information click CPD Payment Terms and Conditions.

Journal Transfer: An account number with authorizing signature for Journal Transfers is required within 48 hours. You must print and return the invoice that is included with the registration confirmation email. 

Register for Spring/Summer 2026

Spring:

• Course 1: Foundational Concepts in DEISJ - January 27 through March 9
• Course 2: Select Topics in DEISJ - March 10 through April 20
• Course 3: Building your DEISJ Curriculum - April 21 through June 1

Summer/Fall:

• Course 1: Foundational Concepts in DEISJ - May 12 through June 22
• Course 2: Select Topics in DEISJ - June 23 through August 3
• Course 3: Building your DEISJ Curriculum - September 22 through November 2

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Lumen Circles Fellowships: Adventures in Teaching Excellence

SUNY faculty are provided a unique opportunity to connect with peers as they explore effective teaching strategies and instructional practices that support and boost student success and apply them in their own teaching. Through the fellowship you can learn, share ideas, and develop professionally in the areas you want to grow. Choose a fellowship theme in an area you’d like to deepen your expertise: Active Learning; Inclusive Teaching; Online Teaching; Teaching with OER; and more!
Lumen Circles Fellowships are offered in partnership with the SUNY Center for Professional Development, SUNY OER Services, and Lumen Learning. They are available at NO COST to SUNY faculty and campuses, and work well for any faculty member, in any discipline, at any stage of career. See Program Achievements for additional details about what faculty fellows have accomplished in order to earn a certificate. You do not need to use courseware to be eligible for this program. 

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Introduction to Universal Design for Learning Self-Paced Online Course

This online, self-paced workshop will be open enrollment and registration, and will provide an in-depth introduction to the Universal Design for Learning framework. Participants will learn why the Universal Design for Learning framework is important, how to apply its principles and guidelines to their own courses, and best practices for interacting with students with disabilities. Participants of this workshop will leave with the skills and resources to apply what they learn about Universal Design for Learning to design a new lesson or student experience, or to revise an existing lesson or experience.
 
Learning Objectives:

• Define Universal Design for Learning and explain why it is important in higher education.
• Define Universal Design, accessibility and usability and explain how each is different from Universal Design for Learning
• Describe the three principles of Universal Design for Learning, recognize examples of them, and explain how to apply each of the three principles to their work with students.
• Employ a three-step approach to recognize barriers to success in their work with students and design to eliminate those barriers.
• Explain best practices for interacting with and providing support for students with disabilities.

Workshop Content: Total Estimated Completion Time: 12-15 hours

• What is UDL? Why is it Important?
• Provide Multiple Means of Representation
• Provide Multiple Means of Action and Expression
• Provide Multiple Means of Engagement
• Three Steps to UDL
• SUNY EITA Digital Content Accessibility Standards
• Implementing Instruction to Support Students with Disabilities 

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Microsoft Enterprise Skills Initiative Training Program

Microsoft and your organization are working together to help you learn the skills you need to be successful with Azure and other Microsoft technologies. With the right technical skills, you can be more innovative, and you can better adapt to the digital landscape, even as it continues to change.
Microsoft has created the Enterprise Skills Initiative (ESI) program—to provide the structure and resources for you to expand your technical skill sets and growth. Sharpen your technical skills and knowledge of Microsoft solutions by enrolling in interactive courses and training designed for your role, and advance your career by getting certified.
Skills build confidence. Confidence drives productivity, innovation, and growth.
For more information on the program, go to https://esi.microsoft.com/ and sign in by entering your work email address and following the steps to create your learner profile. Need help signing in? Please contact: ESI Support.

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Empire KnowledgeBank (EKB) Online Learning – Spotlight on: Virtual Collaboration

The NYS/UUP Joint Labor/Management Committees offer free certification programs!!  Just fill out the application for a FREE e-learning program license and begin exploring what EKB can offer you!!

The Empire KnowledgeBank (EKB) Online Learning contains thousands of eLearning courses, eBooks and short course videos to help employees enhance your professional and career development, prepare for certification and continuing your education in subjects including software, project management, supervision, web security, leadership and much more. The license guidelines, as well as a list of the EKB eLearning Collection, are available here. For further information contact NYS/UUP JLMC at e-mail nysuuplmc@oer.ny.gov or phone (518) 486-4666.

Virtual Collaboration topics available through EKB include:

• Optimizing Virtual Collaboration
• Establishing Effective Virtual Teams
• Remote: Office Not required
• Facing Virtual Teams Challenges
• Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Getting the Best out of Virtual Work and Virtual Teams
• Contributing as a Virtual Team Member

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