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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>Morton,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>If anything is inane, it is your uncritical conflation
of "education and research" <EM>in toto </EM>with the specific "institutions"
that are the object of David's critique. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>DC</FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt Tahoma">
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title="mailto:mkbrussel@comcast.net CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="mailto:mkbrussel@comcast.net">Brussel Morton K.</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, March 13, 2011 9:07 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=davegreen84@yahoo.com
href="mailto:davegreen84@yahoo.com">David Green</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A
title="mailto:students-for-a-united-illinois@googlegroups.com CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="mailto:students-for-a-united-illinois@googlegroups.com">students-for-a-united-illinois@googlegroups.com</A>
; <A title=undergraduate-graduate-alliance@googlegroups.com
href="mailto:undergraduate-graduate-alliance@googlegroups.com">undergraduate-graduate-alliance</A>
; <A
title="mailto:announce@lists.communitycourtwatch.org CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="mailto:announce@lists.communitycourtwatch.org">announce@lists.communitycourtwatch.org</A>
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href="mailto:discuss@lists.communitycourtwatch.org">discuss@lists.communitycourtwatch.org</A>
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; <A title=peace@lists.chambana.net
href="mailto:peace@lists.chambana.net">peace@lists.chambana.net</A> ; <A
title="mailto:defend-education@googlegroups.com CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="mailto:defend-education@googlegroups.com">defend-education@googlegroups.com</A>
; <A title="mailto:campuslabor@lists.uigeo.org CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="mailto:campuslabor@lists.uigeo.org">Campus Labor Coalition</A> ; <A
title="mailto:geo-stewards@lists.uigeo.org CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="mailto:geo-stewards@lists.uigeo.org">SC</A> ; <A
title="mailto:araj1@illinois.edu CTRL + Click to follow link"
href="mailto:araj1@illinois.edu">Tahreer Araj</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [geo-stewards] [Peace] PICKET BOARD OF TRUSTEES CHAIR
CHRISKENNEDY'S SPEECH, Monday, March 14th, 11:30 AM</DIV></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Pardon me, but your response is grotesque. You don't favor
institutions for education and research!? You are against universities?
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>You haven't answered any of my questions!
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Clearly, you don't like some of the research, and some courses, especially
those that defend/perpetuate various current governmental policies. That is akin
to throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Why don't you quit your job at the
university—Are you not tainted by it? </DIV>
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<DIV>It is more than disappointing to read such inanity.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>--mkb</DIV>
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<DIV>On Mar 13, 2011, at 1:03 PM, David Green wrote:</DIV><BR
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">"defending the institution" is exactly what Hogan is
doing. It's rather pathetic that activist groups can't think of anything
different.</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">DG<BR></DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>Brussel Morton K. <<A
href="mailto:mkbrussel@comcast.net">mkbrussel@comcast.net</A>><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>David Green <<A
href="mailto:davegreen84@yahoo.com">davegreen84@yahoo.com</A>><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>Ben Rothschild <<A
href="mailto:rothsch2@gmail.com">rothsch2@gmail.com</A>>;
undergraduate-graduate-alliance <<A
href="mailto:undergraduate-graduate-alliance@googlegroups.com">undergraduate-graduate-alliance@googlegroups.com</A>>;
SC <<A
href="mailto:geo-stewards@lists.uigeo.org">geo-stewards@lists.uigeo.org</A>>;<A
href="mailto:announce@lists.communitycourtwatch.org">announce@lists.communitycourtwatch.org</A>;<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><A
href="mailto:discuss@lists.communitycourtwatch.org">discuss@lists.communitycourtwatch.org</A>;<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><A
href="mailto:peace@lists.chambana.net">peace@lists.chambana.net</A>;<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><A
href="mailto:students-for-a-united-illinois@googlegroups.com">students-for-a-united-illinois@googlegroups.com</A>;<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><A
href="mailto:illinois-education-rights@googlegroups.com">illinois-education-rights@googlegroups.com</A>;
Campus Labor Coalition <<A
href="mailto:campuslabor@lists.uigeo.org">campuslabor@lists.uigeo.org</A>>;<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><A
href="mailto:defend-education@googlegroups.com">defend-education@googlegroups.com</A>;
Tahreer Araj <<A
href="mailto:araj1@illinois.edu">araj1@illinois.edu</A>><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>Sat, March 12, 2011 4:34:45
PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>Re: [Peace] PICKET BOARD OF TRUSTEES
CHAIR CHRIS KENNEDY'S SPEECH, Monday, March 14th, 11:30 AM<BR></FONT><BR>So,
what do you propose? That the legislature not listen to Hogan about how
good (virtuous) the university is for the state? That Hogan and the whole
administrative apparatus be done away with (by the legislature or the
governor?)? What would you have liked Hogan to say to the legislators?
Would you prefer that he have nothing to do with them?
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">You are implying that the whole system is
rotten without prescribing what to do effectively about it. </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Just my reaction—and I am not fond of Hogan and
company, and the direction that the system is moving towards. But I do believe
that the university must be defended as an institution for education and
research and its state funding increased, albeit recognizing that there are
many needy projects to be considered in addition to the university.
Would you favor an increased contribution from the state to the university, or
less (as long as the campus contributes to the military-industrial capitalist
complex)?</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">--mkb</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">On Mar 12, 2011, at 2:23 PM, David Green
wrote:</DIV><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Friends,</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">I've pasted a campus-wide e-mail from President
Michael Hogan at the end of this message which I'm sure most of you
received. The assumption of this e-mail is that "we," the "U of I
community," must naturally support his efforts to promote the virtues of our
university. To me, it's important to understand that this laundry list is
not only provinical boosterism on the one hand, but propaganda on the other.
We are asked, as a "community," to accept the basic economic assumptions of
corporate higher education and "human capital" in an unjust society. We
are asked to view ourselves in solidarity as an "interest group"
in relation to the state legislature. We are asked not to question anything
fundamental about the corporate-military state and the university's
integration into that state. As workers for social justice, we are asked to
allow ourselves to be co-opted in the name of a few dollars more or less for
the U of I budget from our magnanimous legislature.</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">When Hogan sends out such a message, he can't
imagine why anyone who receives a paycheck from or pays tuition to the
university could possibly not support him wholeheartedly, at least out of
"self interest." But we must honestly ask ourselves: If the university
contributes so much economically to our state, then why does our state's
economy suck? Or our nation's? The answer will be found in long-term
policies that have been wholeheartedly supported for decades by university
administrators and corporate elites like Michael Hogan, which generally
go under the rubric of neoliberalism, corporatism, privatization, and
military-industrialism; that is, class warfare. And to keep this academic
virtue going, all the way to utopia, we need just a few more dollars from
the state legislature?</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Through my place of employment, the Institute for
Government and Public Affairs, I also received an e-mail "personally" from
Robert Rich urgently requesting my attendance at the talk by Kennedy on
Monday. I am perplexed by this--as if they were worried they wouldn't fill
the seats for this momentous occasion (to hear boosterism-propaganda about
the research university), or as if they are worried that the seats will be
filled by the "wrong people." The request for RSVPs is also unusual, as if
this were a cocktail party to "meet a Kennedy." Let me add that the IGPA is
a "non-partisan" policy research and advisory group that in no way supports
any view that might challenge the fundamental assumptions of the political
and corporate establishments, and business-as-usual. That is what
"non-partisan" means in an academic context.</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">I could be making too much of this, but this
occasion nevertheless presents an obvious opportunity, in the spirit of
Cairo and Madison. Chris Kennedy represents what President Clark Kerr
represented to Berkeley students during the Free Speech Movement in 1964:
managerialism, corporatism, conformity, business as ususal: "the best of all
possible worlds." In 1964, California was experiencing prosperity probably
unparalled in any state at any time in the history of this country, before
or since, and school was essentially free, but students rebelled against the
condescension of university administrators, and much more (racism, the
Vietnam War).</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">I would encourage demonstrators to look well beyond
the issue of tuition hikes and other more immediate economic concerns, as
well as demands related to admissions policies, to these fundamental
political, social, and economic contexts. I would encourage local social
justice organizations to see this as an opportunity to discourage "business
as usual" on this occasion. I would suggest that prior to this event, there
be collective and open meetings and discussions of agendas, demands, and
plans of action. This seems to me like an opportunity that reflects the
confluence of the spirit of our times, for worse and better.</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"> </DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">David Green</DIV>
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size=2 face=Tahoma><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>Ben Rothschild <<A
href="mailto:rothsch2@gmail.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank
ymailto="mailto:rothsch2@gmail.com">rothsch2@gmail.com</A>><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>undergraduate-graduate-alliance
<<A href="mailto:undergraduate-graduate-alliance@googlegroups.com"
rel=nofollow target=_blank
ymailto="mailto:undergraduate-graduate-alliance@googlegroups.com">undergraduate-graduate-alliance@googlegroups.com</A>>;
SC <<A href="mailto:geo-stewards@lists.uigeo.org" rel=nofollow
target=_blank
ymailto="mailto:geo-stewards@lists.uigeo.org">geo-stewards@lists.uigeo.org</A>>;<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><A
href="mailto:announce@lists.communitycourtwatch.org" rel=nofollow
target=_blank
ymailto="mailto:announce@lists.communitycourtwatch.org">announce@lists.communitycourtwatch.org</A>;<A
href="mailto:discuss@lists.communitycourtwatch.org" rel=nofollow
target=_blank
ymailto="mailto:discuss@lists.communitycourtwatch.org">discuss@lists.communitycourtwatch.org</A>;<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><A
href="mailto:peace@lists.chambana.net" rel=nofollow target=_blank
ymailto="mailto:peace@lists.chambana.net">peace@lists.chambana.net</A>;<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><A
href="mailto:students-for-a-united-illinois@googlegroups.com" rel=nofollow
target=_blank
ymailto="mailto:students-for-a-united-illinois@googlegroups.com">students-for-a-united-illinois@googlegroups.com</A>;<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><A
href="mailto:illinois-education-rights@googlegroups.com" rel=nofollow
target=_blank
ymailto="mailto:illinois-education-rights@googlegroups.com">illinois-education-rights@googlegroups.com</A>;
Campus Labor Coalition <<A href="mailto:campuslabor@lists.uigeo.org"
rel=nofollow target=_blank
ymailto="mailto:campuslabor@lists.uigeo.org">campuslabor@lists.uigeo.org</A>>;<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><A
href="mailto:defend-education@googlegroups.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank
ymailto="mailto:defend-education@googlegroups.com">defend-education@googlegroups.com</A><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>Sat, March 12, 2011 10:33:41
AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>[Peace] PICKET BOARD OF TRUSTEES
CHAIR CHRIS KENNEDY'S SPEECH, Monday, March 14th, 11:30
AM<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV
style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><A
href="http://www.facebook.com/#%21/event.php?eid=208075649208730"
rel=nofollow target=_blank><FONT size=4><B>PICKET BOARD OF TRUSTEES CHAIR
CHRIS KENNEDY'S SPEECH</B></FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT size=4>Monday, March
14th, 11:30 AM</FONT><BR>Beckman Institute, 405 North Mathews Avenue,
URBANA, ILLINOIS<B><BR></B></DIV><B
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></B>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><B
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><BR>The University is
raising tuition by over $500.</B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>Last year, they hiked by it $1000
and MAP Grant funding is being cut. Yet they gave the president a $170,000
pay raise. The tuition hike vote is taking place on March 23rd, during our
spring break, in Springfield!</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><BR>STOP THE TUITION HIKE!
Increase Underrepresented Minority Student Enrollment! Create a Financial
Aid Program for Undocumented Students! Fair Contract for ALL UI Workers!
Education is Not a Business - No More Privatization!</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><BR
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">REMEMBER TO RESERVE A SEAT
AT THE SPEECH:</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><A
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"
href="http://igpa.uillinois.edu/chris-kennedy" rel=nofollow
target=_blank><SPAN>http://igpa.uillinois.edu/</SPAN><SPAN></SPAN>chris-kennedy</A><I
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><BR></I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><BR>See attached
flyer.</SPAN><BR style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><BR
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Coalition to Defend
Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigration Rights and Fight for
Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN)</SPAN></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></SPAN> </DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,<BR><BR>On
Wednesday I had an opportunity to testify before the state Senate<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>Appropriations II Committee. It
was a great forum for me to articulate<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>the "value proposition," as one
senator put it, of the state's investment<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>in the University of Illinois.
I was able to share our many outstanding<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>accomplishments,
including:<BR><BR>- The University of Illinois produces about $13.1 billion
per year in<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>direct and
indirect economic impact on the Illinois economy -- a return<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>of more than $17 for every $1
the state invests through its annual<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>appropriation to the
University.<BR>- University of Illinois operations directly and indirectly
generate more<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>than 150,000
jobs in the state annually.<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>- The annual activity of our
University creates more than $1.3 billion in<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>future tax revenue to the
state, resulting in a net annual gain to the<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>state of about $535
million. <SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>- The vast
health sciences complex on our Chicago campus educates a<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>significant number of health
care professionals practicing in Illinois<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>and provides state-of-the-art
care through more than 400,000 patient<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>visits each year.<BR>- Our
Springfield campus, among the best public liberal arts universities<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>in the Midwest, has garnered
national recognition for its advances in<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>online education and blended
learning.<BR>- Graduates of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
have the<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>highest median
mid-career salary among graduates of all Big Ten<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>universities, and the
ninth-highest median mid-career salary among all<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>U.S. public research
universities.<BR>- Our Urbana campus students have the second-highest
graduation rate in<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>the Big
Ten and second-lowest debt upon graduation.<BR>- The combined federal
research funding across our campuses puts us in<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>the top five among U.S. public
research universities.<BR>- The wages and salaries of our alumni contribute
about $21.2 billion<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>annually to the state economy
and about 265,000 jobs.<BR><BR>The senators were very impressed by all our
contributions to the state.<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>The exchange also gave me an
opportunity to highlight the distinctive<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>missions and exceptional
performance of each of our campuses. This<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>resonated positively with the
senators. At the same time, they<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>articulated, as they must, the
State's profound long-term budget crisis.<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>Their questions covered a wide
range of subjects, from faculty and staff<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>salaries to tuition waivers to
academic programs and administrative<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>operations. I aggressively
defended our policies, particularly on<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>salaries and graduate tuition
waivers. I explained that, among other<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>things, appropriate
compensation adjustments are one of my highest<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>priorities. Of course, they
wanted to know what we're doing to help<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>ourselves, and how we might
replace lost positions and increase salaries,<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>when there is no additional
support for either in the governor's fiscal<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>2012 budget proposal. That gave
me an opportunity to explain we are<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>making progress on the
Administrative Review & Restructuring (ARR)<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>reforms.<BR><BR>I reported our
efforts to streamline business functions across the<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>University, with the
expectation of building, over three years, annual<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>savings of $60 million or more
-- funds we must reallocate to manage any<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>future cuts in state support,
avoid furlough days, make compensation<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>adjustments, and replenish some
of the faculty and staff positions we<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>have lost. I also had an
opportunity to explain how the reforms<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>implemented thus far have
already saved over $5 million in the first half<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>of the current fiscal year, and
we expect another $5 million by July 1.<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR><BR>These savings come at a
minimum net cost to the University, as we've<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>reconfigured four of five
positions, rather than creating entirely new<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>ones, to implement the reforms.
We just announced the appointment of Dr.<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>Larry Schook, as interim Vice
President for Research. The VP-Research<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>role takes on the portfolio of
the former Vice President for Technology<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>and Economic Development
position, along with the added responsibility of<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>advancing our research
enterprise across the three campuses and in state<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>and federal arenas. Also, we've
expanded the portfolios of three existing<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>and highly experienced
administrators: Steve Veazie, who'll add<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>oversight of collective
bargaining across our campuses to his<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>responsibilities as Deputy
University Counsel, is taking on the added<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>title of Executive Director of
Labor and Employee Relations; Maureen<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>Parks, as Executive Director
for Human Resources, will add to her<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>responsibilities oversight
across our campuses of HR services and<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>processes involving civil
service and academic professionals whose work<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>doesn't entail a direct
academic role; and Michael Hites, who'll work<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>with campus chief information
officers (CIOs) as the University's<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>Executive CIO to enhance
enterprise IT services and infrastructure<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>delivered on all our campuses.
Finally, we added just one new position,<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>an Interim Vice President for
Health Affairs, which will be supported by<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>clinical revenues. We've
appointed Dr. Joe "Skip" Garcia to this position<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>and charged him with enhancing
our clinical healthcare mission, which has<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>the potential to realize
substantial new revenues and savings, while<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>improving education and
research opportunities and enhancing service to<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>the hundreds of thousands of
patients we serve.<BR><BR>I've heard that some might not be aware of these
changes or are confused<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>about how they're being made.
The new cost is nominal, because, as noted<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>above, we've reconfigured
existing positions, rather than adding new ones<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>(except for the VP-Health
Affairs). We expect these changes to drive the<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>reforms that will produce the
$60-plus million in savings that our<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>estimates indicate we can
achieve. Most important, these changes will<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>improve the financial
circumstances for each campus, enabling each to<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>remain competitive and enhance
its performance and its distinctive<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>mission. Additionally, our
effectiveness in these cost-savings efforts<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>will inform the Board's tuition
decision, under the policy it adopted at<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>the January Board
Meeting.<BR><BR>In the midst of the state's profound budget problems and our
efforts to<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>deal with the
implications for our great University, I'm proud that so<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>many of you are working
collaboratively on these reforms, are focusing on<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>the big picture, and are
recognizing the opportunity for positive<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>transformation, which improves
services and saves precious resources.<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR><BR>As I've been doing, I'll
continue to keep you informed of our legislative<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>work and our progress on ARR
reforms. Since joining our great University<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>last July, I've spent hundreds
of hours on more than 60 meetings with<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>campus senates and their
leaders, student groups, deans, department<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>chairs, collective bargaining
unit leaders, academic professionals, and<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>other constituencies comprising
our shared governance system. Some may<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>wish I could spend more time
with them and I'll continue to do my best to<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>visit with you. These
consultations have been very beneficial and at the<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>urging of faculty, staff, and
students we've made many changes to<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>proposals under consideration
before I arrived and shortly thereafter.<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>These include: taking the
proposal to combine the campus chancellor and<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>provost positions off the
table; reversing the decision to combine the VP-<BR>Academic Affairs with
the VP-TED; keeping the provost title for vice<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>chancellors of academic
affairs; changing the VP-Research, TED title<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>to "VP-Research;" and ensuring
that the VP-Health Affairs description<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>includes alignment of the
clinical enterprise with our academic and<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>research missions. All these
adjustments arose from my consultations with<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>so many of you. I'm grateful
for your good advice and welcome it as we<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>continue to move
forward.<BR><BR>None of this would have been possible without your support
and the help<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>of
chancellors, vice presidents, and others on the ARR Steering<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>Committee. Also, I'm grateful
for the participation of President Emeritus<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>Stan Ikenberry, who launched
the ARR efforts before I arrived and remains<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>a close friend and
advisor.<BR><BR>As my session Wednesday with the committee of the state
Senate<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>demonstrated, we
have a great story to tell -- one that impresses our<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>senators and the people of our
state. I urge you all to keep telling it,<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>as I will. Our story is one of
sustained success and accomplishment, even<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>in very challenging times.
Leaders throughout the state and nation are<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>looking to the University of
Illinois to bring the exceptional talents of<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>our faculty, staff, and
students to bear on the pressing issues of our<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>time. I couldn't be more proud
of how we are rising to these challenges<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>and of the tremendous progress
we are making together.<BR><BR>Sincerely,<BR><BR>Mike<BR>President,
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