Full Text of HR0468 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are honored to congratulate Joanne K. Glasser | 4 | | on her retirement as President of Bradley University; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, President Glasser is a graduate of George | 6 | | Washington University in Washington, D.C. and the University of | 7 | | Maryland School of Law; she also has a certificate from the | 8 | | Harvard University Graduate School of Education Institute for | 9 | | Higher Education Management in Boston; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Prior to her presidency at Bradley University, | 11 | | President Glasser, a native of Baltimore, served as president | 12 | | of Eastern Kentucky University, as executive vice president and | 13 | | chief advancement officer at Towson University, and as an | 14 | | attorney and labor commissioner for the Baltimore County | 15 | | government; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, Under President Glasser's leadership, Bradley | 17 | | University has enrolled the best classes academically on record | 18 | | in the University's history for fall 2012, 2013, and 2014 based | 19 | | on ACT scores; her other academic initiatives include the | 20 | | launch of both a Pre-Law Center and a PreProfessional Health | 21 | | Advisory Center; she also helped Bradley University create | 22 | | programs in interactive media, game and web design, social |
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| 1 | | media marketing, accelerated nursing, global supply chain | 2 | | management, hospitality leadership, sports communication, and | 3 | | a dietetics internship curriculum; in 2015, the University | 4 | | launched an initiative to offer online graduate programs in | 5 | | nursing and counseling; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Numerous "firsts" occurred throughout her | 7 | | presidency; the Mund-Lagowski Department of Chemistry and | 8 | | Biochemistry became the first department to be named in the | 9 | | University's history; Bradley University's Executive MBA | 10 | | program was named in 2009 after Dr. Theresa Falcon, the first | 11 | | EMBA program in the world to be named for a woman and by a | 12 | | woman; President Glasser and the Board of Trustees announced | 13 | | the creation of the Robert and Carolyn Turner School of | 14 | | Entrepreneurship and Innovation in 2012; Bradley University is | 15 | | among the first universities in the nation to have a school of | 16 | | entrepreneurship and the first established as a freestanding | 17 | | academic unit; a second school was established for iconic | 18 | | sportscaster Charley Steiner in 2015, The Charley Steiner | 19 | | School of Sports Communication, which is the first such school | 20 | | to be named in the nation; acknowledging a decades-long history | 21 | | of support for the University, President Glasser announced the | 22 | | naming of the Caterpillar College of Engineering and Technology | 23 | | in 2012; and
| 24 | | WHEREAS, President Glasser successfully completed the |
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| 1 | | largest comprehensive capital campaign, the campaign for a | 2 | | Bradley Renaissance, in the University's history; the campaign | 3 | | that changed the face of the University surpassed its goal of | 4 | | $150 million; the first phase of the Renaissance included | 5 | | construction of the $30 million Markin Family Student | 6 | | Recreation Center and a 600-car parking deck; the $50 million, | 7 | | 4,200-seat Renaissance Coliseum, home to the women's | 8 | | basketball and volleyball teams and the Men's Basketball | 9 | | Practice Facility opened in 2010; the $12 million Hayden-Clark | 10 | | Alumni Center which was completed in 2011, earning LEED Silver | 11 | | certification from the United States Green Building Council; | 12 | | the expansion and renovation of Westlake Hall, the | 13 | | second-oldest building on campus, was completed in 2012, | 14 | | earning LEED Gold certification from the United States Green | 15 | | Building Council; and | 16 | | WHEREAS, President Glasser serves as the chair of the NCAA | 17 | | Division I Committee on Institutional Performance (formerly | 18 | | the NCAA Division I Committee on Athletics Certification) and | 19 | | as vice chair of its Executive Subcommittee; she was a member | 20 | | of the Board of Directors: Division I Presidential Advisory | 21 | | Group; she is also a member of the Commission on Women in | 22 | | Higher Education Task Force, the Council for Advancement and | 23 | | Support of Education, and a former member of the American | 24 | | Council on Education Commission on Effective Leadership; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, A student-focused university with an emphasis on | 2 | | student-learning and success, President Glasser is a champion | 3 | | of students; she was nationally recognized for her student | 4 | | engagement by The Chronicle of Higher Education, which | 5 | | published a story about the Office Hours she holds monthly for | 6 | | students; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, President Glasser was the honorary chair of the | 8 | | 25th annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in Peoria, | 9 | | hometown of Ms. Komen and her sister, Nancy Brinker, founder of | 10 | | the Komen Foundation and Race for the Cure; under her | 11 | | leadership, the University received an international award | 12 | | from Susan G. Komen for the Cure: the 2011 Outstanding | 13 | | Volunteer Group Award; in 2011, she was honored with the Peoria | 14 | | YWCA Education and Care of Children Award for her many | 15 | | contributions at Bradley; President Glasser also was the | 16 | | recipient of the Bradley University 2010 Megan Fong Inspiration | 17 | | Award; therefore, be it
| 18 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 19 | | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 20 | | congratulate Joanne K. Glasser on her retirement as President | 21 | | of Bradley University and for her dedicated service and | 22 | | leadership to the Bradley University community; and be it | 23 | | further
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 2 | | presented to Joanne Glasser as an expression of our esteem and | 3 | | respect.
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