Full Text of HR0164 95th General Assembly
HR0164 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 Dr. Alice Marie | 4 |
| Jacobs, President of Danville Area Community College, on being | 5 |
| named Woman of Achievement 2007 by the American Association of | 6 |
| University Women; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Alice Marie Jacobs has served as President of | 8 |
| Danville Area Community College since September of 1999; she is | 9 |
| the second woman to hold the position in the College's 60-year | 10 |
| history; and
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| WHEREAS, Before coming to Danville, Dr. Jacobs served as | 12 |
| President of Kaskaskia College in Centralia, Illinois; Vice | 13 |
| President of Instruction and Student Development at Cape Fear | 14 |
| Community College, Wilmington, North Carolina; Dean of | 15 |
| Instruction at Rochester Community College, Rochester, | 16 |
| Minnesota; and Dean of Occupational Education and faculty | 17 |
| member at Kellogg Community College, Battle Creek, Michigan; | 18 |
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Jacobs is the immediate past President of the | 20 |
| Illinois Council of Community College Presidents, an | 21 |
| organization representing 39 community college districts and | 22 |
| 48 colleges in Illinois; she represented that Council with the |
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| Illinois Board of Higher Education, the Illinois Community | 2 |
| College Board, and the Illinois Community College Trustees | 3 |
| Association; and she has also served on the American | 4 |
| Association of Community Colleges Commission on Minority | 5 |
| Resources and is currently serving on its Commission on | 6 |
| Diversity, Inclusiveness, and Equity; and
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| WHEREAS, In 2006, Dr. Jacobs was elected to a three-year | 8 |
| term on the board of the American Association of Community | 9 |
| Colleges; in Danville, Dr. Jacobs served as the first Chair of | 10 |
| the Board of Directors for Vermilion Advantage, the merged | 11 |
| Economic Development Corporation and Chamber of Commerce; she | 12 |
| serves as president of the Danville Symphony Orchestra Board, | 13 |
| on the Vermilion County Workforce Investment Board, the United | 14 |
| Way of Danville Area Board, and the No Child Left Behind | 15 |
| District Council; she successfully chaired the 2002 United Way | 16 |
| of Danville Area Campaign and has also served on the board of | 17 |
| the Danville Area Convention and Visitors Bureau; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1999, Dr. Jacobs received the Centralia NAACP | 19 |
| Outstanding Citizen's Award; in 2002, she received the | 20 |
| International Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society Shirley B. Gordon | 21 |
| Award of Distinction granted to outstanding community college | 22 |
| executive officers and the ninth annual Rotary Vocational | 23 |
| Service Person of the Year Award from the Danville, Illinois, | 24 |
| Noon Rotary Club; Dr. Jacobs was also selected as a 2003 Woman |
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| of Distinction by the Girl Scouts Green Meadows Council; and | 2 |
| Dr. Jacobs received a special Outstanding Advocacy Award from | 3 |
| the Illinois Community College Trustees Association in 2006; | 4 |
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Dr. Jacobs received her Ph.D. in College and | 6 |
| University Administration from Michigan State University; she | 7 |
| also holds an M.A. from Western Michigan University, and a B.S. | 8 |
| from Western Michigan University; therefore, 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 Dr. Alice Marie Jacobs on being named Woman of | 12 |
| Achievement 2007 by the American Association of University | 13 |
| Women; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 15 |
| presented to Dr. Alice Marie Jacobs as a symbol of our esteem.
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