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Following our discussion and distillation of the information provided in the "Phase 1 Reports" from the TSI functional working groups, the Steering Committee agreed that it might be time to begin a "soft" integration. The complexities of prioritizing and coordinating the myriad recommendations, ideas, and suggestions proposed by the functional working groups -- coupled with the potentially overwhelming distractions of a joint system implementation in 2014-2015 -- suggest that we should bring together the current 2CUL technical services directors to help with planning sooner rather later. Specifically, we propose the following:
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Formal development and implementation of the administrative structure for 2CUL starting in June 2015 would remain the responsibility of the TSI Administrative Team, hence the term "soft integration" for what we are proposing for TSI Phase 2.
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