Full Text of HR1470 95th General Assembly
HR1470 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 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
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| 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;
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| 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
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| 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 |
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| WHEREAS, She is a member of the Institute of Medicine of |
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| 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
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| 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
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 15 |
| presented to Paula Allen-Meares as a symbol of our respect.
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