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1 HOUSE RESOLUTION
2 WHEREAS, Skillful, enthusiastic, and innovative teachers
3 change the lives of countless students for the letter and
4 forever by encouraging curiosity and understanding and by
5 contributing to the development of mind and spirit; and
6 WHEREAS, The U.S. Professors of the Year program,
7 presented by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
8 Teaching and directed by the Council for Advancement and
9 Support of Education, is the nation's most highly respected
10 program to recognize outstanding faculty; and
11 WHEREAS, The 2001 Illinois Professor of the Year
12 represents the thousands of dedicated university and college
13 instructors throughout Illinois who serve their students,
14 their community and their state with dedication and talent;
15 and
16 WHEREAS, The State of Illinois has long supported
17 excellence in undergraduate teaching through competitively
18 funding faculty salaries and other initiatives to make our
19 system of higher education the envy of many states and other
20 nations; and
21 WHEREAS, Constance A. Mixon, an instructor at Richard J.
22 Daley College on Chicago's Southwest Side, is the first City
23 Colleges faculty member to win this prestigious award; she is
24 being honored for her dedication and service to the students
25 at Daley College, for her work in the school's political
26 science department and for accomplishments with the Model
27 Illinois Government Program; and
28 WHEREAS, Constance Mixon has also been honored as the
29 Woman of the Year by Daley College AACCW; under her
30 leadership as faculty advisor, Daley College received
31 Outstanding Small Delegation, Outstanding Original
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1 Legislation, and Outstanding Committee Person in the House
2 honors from Model Illinois Government; in addition, she was a
3 Preparing Future Faculty grant recipient; therefore, be it
4 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
5 NINETY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
6 we congratulate Constance A. Mixon, political science
7 instructor at Richard J. Daley College, upon being named the
8 2001 Illinois Professor of the Year and we wish her continued
9 success in the future; and be it further
10 RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
11 presented to Constance A. Mixon as an expression of our
12 esteem.