Full Text of HR0529 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives wish to congratulates Joe M. Kanosky, Ph.D. on | 4 | | the occasion of his retirement as President of Highland | 5 | | Community College on June 30, 2015; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Joe Kanosky's tenure began in June of 2006 after | 7 | | serving as Acting President upon the departure of Dr. Ronald | 8 | | Field in late 2005; he joined Highland Community College in | 9 | | 1981 and has held a variety of positions in the areas of | 10 | | student services, instructional program administration, | 11 | | community service, and economic development; he has been a | 12 | | Director, an Associate Dean, and a Dean; he served as | 13 | | Vice-President for Student and Community Services from 2000 to | 14 | | 2003 and as Vice-President for Institutional and Community | 15 | | Development from 2003 until November of 2005; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, Joe Kanosky has had several lasting | 17 | | accomplishments, most notably, the construction of 2 | 18 | | state-of-the-art training facilities: the Ray and Betty Stamm | 19 | | Health Science Nursing Wing and the Wind Turbine Technician | 20 | | Training Center; he oversaw the college's successful | 21 | | transition to the Academic Quality Improvement program model of | 22 | | accreditation and 2 Illinois Community College Board | 23 | | recognition evaluations, maintaining the college's continued |
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| 1 | | high recognition status; in 2012, the college received approval | 2 | | from the Higher Learning Commission to offer its Associate of | 3 | | Arts degree completely through online coursework; during his | 4 | | tenure, a number of new academic programs were initiated, | 5 | | including Medical Assistant, Emergency Medical Technician, | 6 | | Industrial Training, and Wind Turbine Technician degrees, as | 7 | | well as Customer Service and Professional Tax Preparer | 8 | | certificates; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Joe Kanosky has been active in civic and | 10 | | professional organizations for many years; he served on the | 11 | | Freeport School District 145 Board of Education for nearly 8 | 12 | | years, 2 years as its President; he also holds a position on 2 | 13 | | Workforce Investment Boards, which serve northwestern | 14 | | Illinois, and is a member of the board of the Tri-County | 15 | | Economic Development Alliance; he also serves on the boards of | 16 | | the Boys and Girls Club and State Bank of Freeport and is a | 17 | | member of the Freeport Noon Rotary; his past service includes | 18 | | being on the board of directors of the Freeport Area Chamber of | 19 | | Commerce and the Northwest Illinois Development Alliance; he is | 20 | | a member of the Illinois Council of Community College | 21 | | Presidents and currently co-chairs its Leadership and Core | 22 | | Values Committee, a position he has held for several years; he | 23 | | has also presented at the Illinois Council of Community College | 24 | | Administrators conference on several occasions, sharing his | 25 | | expertise on leadership and core values; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Joe Kanosky earned his bachelor's degree in
| 2 | | English from Western Illinois
University in 1971; from 1973 to | 3 | | 1978, he
was a high school English teacher
and football and | 4 | | track coach in the
Galesburg area; from 1978
to 1981, he was a | 5 | | full-time
graduate student at Illinois State
University (ISU) | 6 | | in Normal; at
ISU he earned both his
M.S.Ed. and Ph.D. degrees | 7 | | in Educational Administration and Foundations; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Joe Kanosky and his wife, Jennifer, have been in | 9 | | Freeport since the fall of 1981; they have 2 grown children, | 10 | | Andrew and Alison; therefore, be it
| 11 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 12 | | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 13 | | congratulate Joe M. Kanosky, Ph.D. on his retirement as | 14 | | President of Highland Community College and we wish him the | 15 | | best in all his future endeavors; and be it further
| 16 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 17 | | presented to Joe Kanosky as an expression of our esteem and | 18 | | respect.
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