Full Text of HR1445 094th General Assembly
HR1445 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the | 3 |
| State of Illinois wish to honor Lewis Collens on the occasion | 4 |
| of his retirement from the position of president of the | 5 |
| Illinois Institute of Technology in the Summer of 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, He is one of the longest serving university | 7 |
| presidents in the United States, having held his current | 8 |
| position for sixteen years; his tenure has seen dramatic | 9 |
| improvements in student quality and enrollment, creation of a | 10 |
| number of significant research centers and institutes, and an | 11 |
| endowment that has gone from $50 million to $300 million; and
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| WHEREAS, He successfully led the largest fundraising | 13 |
| campaign in university history that included the two largest | 14 |
| individual gifts ever made to an Illinois university at the | 15 |
| time; he encouraged the development of several new academic | 16 |
| programs, including biomedical engineering, financial markets, | 17 |
| design, and math and science teacher education, which today is | 18 |
| one of the largest Ph.D. programs in the field; he transformed | 19 |
| the school into one of the most selective schools in the | 20 |
| country and welcomed the largest freshman class in recent | 21 |
| history; and
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| WHEREAS, In addition to his duties for the school, he is | 23 |
| involved in numerous civic, business, and professional | 24 |
| activities;he currently serves as a director of Dean Foods | 25 |
| Company, AMSTED Industries, Alion Science and Technology | 26 |
| Corporation, and The Colson Group; he has also served in | 27 |
| various leadership roles on the Advisory Committee of the | 28 |
| Partnership for New Communities, Leadership Greater Chicago, | 29 |
| The Economic Club of Chicago, Association Independent | 30 |
| Technological Universities, National Association of | 31 |
| Independent Colleges and Universities, The Latin School of | 32 |
| Chicago, and the Mayors Council of Technology Advisors; and
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| WHEREAS, Prior to taking his current position, he practiced | 2 |
| law in Chicago and Washington, D.C. and was co-founder and | 3 |
| chairman of BAR/BRI Educational Publishing Company; he has also | 4 |
| served as a Law and Humanities Fellow at Harvard Law School and | 5 |
| taught corporate securities law at IIT's Chicago-Kent College | 6 |
| of Law, being named dean of the school in 1974; he holds | 7 |
| degrees in accounting, philosophy, and law; and
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| WHEREAS, He is a life-long resident of the Chicago area, | 9 |
| where he lives with his wife, Marge; they have one son, Steven; | 10 |
| Mr. Collens will continue in his current position while a | 11 |
| national search is conducted for his successor; therefore, be | 12 |
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 14 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 15 |
| we congratulate Lewis Collens on the occasion of his retirement | 16 |
| in the Summer of 2007; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 18 |
| presented to Mr. Collens as an expression of our respect and | 19 |
| esteem.
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