HR1470 LRB095 21754 KXB 51966 r

1
HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of
3 Representatives are pleased to congratulate Paula Allen-Meares
4 on her selection as the next chancellor of the University of
5 Illinois at Chicago (UIC); and
 
6     WHEREAS, Paula Allen-Meares, dean of the nationally
7 top-ranked school of social work at the University of Michigan,
8 has been selected as the next chancellor of UIC; the chancellor
9 serves as the executive officer of the UIC campus and reports
10 to the president of the University of Illinois; she would take
11 office effective January 16, 2009, and would assume the helm of
12 a UIC campus that ranks 47th nationally in federally funded
13 research, enrolls 25,000 undergraduate, graduate and
14 professional students, employs 12,000 faculty and staff, and
15 operates with a total annual budget of about $1.7 billion; and
 
16     WHEREAS, Paula Allen-Meares is a high-aspiration,
17 high-achieving leader who for 15 years has kept a professional
18 school of a leading university at the very top of the national
19 rankings; the search committee described her as a role model
20 for the UIC community, an academic leader, and highly
21 productive scholar who is personally involved in vital areas of
22 improving peoples' lives; and
 

 

 

HR1470 - 2 - LRB095 21754 KXB 51966 r

1     WHEREAS, Paula Allen-Meares has been dean of the school of
2 social work at the University of Michigan since 1993 and is the
3 Norma Radin Collegiate Professor of Social Work as well as a
4 professor of education at the university; prior to joining the
5 University of Michigan, she was a professor and dean of the
6 school of social work at the University of Illinois at
7 Urbana-Champaign, where she received her master's and Ph.D.
8 degrees; her bachelor's degree was earned at the State
9 University of New York at Buffalo; and
 
10     WHEREAS, In addition to the UIC chancellorship, she will
11 hold faculty appointments in social work and education at the
12 UIC and Urbana campuses; her academic career has been
13 distinguished during the nearly four decades since she first
14 enrolled in the master's of social work program on the U. of I.
15 Urbana-Champaign campus, where she rose between 1970 and 1993
16 from graduate student and teaching assistant in the school of
17 social work to professor and dean of the school; and
 
18     WHEREAS, Her interest and expertise focus on social work as
19 it relates to educational settings and adolescents; in addition
20 to her administrative experience as a dean at Michigan and
21 Illinois, Allen-Meares has conducted extensive research in her
22 field and her findings have been widely published; and
 
23     WHEREAS, She is a member of the Institute of Medicine of

 

 

HR1470 - 3 - LRB095 21754 KXB 51966 r

1 the National Academies and is a trustee of the New York Academy
2 of Medicine; at Michigan's school of social work, she is
3 principal investigator of the Global Program on Youth, an
4 initiative supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the
5 principal investigator of the Skillman Good Neighborhoods
6 Grant and the National Institute of Mental Health's Social Work
7 Research Center on Poverty, Risk and Mental Health; therefore,
8 be it
 
9     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
10 NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
11 congratulate Paula Allen-Meares on her appointment and look
12 forward to the great things she will accomplish as chancellor
13 of the University of Illinois at Chicago; and be it further
 
14     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
15 presented to Paula Allen-Meares as a symbol of our respect.