An invitation to apply for the position of Chancellor of the University of at and Vice President of the University of Illinois

UIC is the key to Chicago’s vision of a 21st century economy that will help drive progress for the city, the state and the nation. It provides a transformative education for large numbers of young people; produces the highly skilled workforce to meet the needs of next- generation companies; molds the well-rounded citizens who are essential to a vibrant, progressive global city; and fosters the breakthrough discovery that fuels new waves of innovation. We are committed to leadership that will build on our success, and expand UIC’s capacity to serve society and solve its most pressing challenges. —Robert A. Easter, University of Illinois President

The Board of Trustees announces the search for the Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Chicago and Vice President of the University of Illinois and invites nominations and applications for this exceptional leadership opportunity at a nationally and internationally recognized urban public research university.

INTRODUCTION UIC AT A GLANCE The University of Illinois at Chicago, a highly respected and diverse public research university deeply committed to its urban mission, seeks a chancellor and vice • UIC has 15 colleges1. president to sustain and further develop UIC’s scholarly excellence, national • The UIC library, headed by a dean, supports prominence and community engagement. In three decades, UIC has transformed public research and includes one of the itself into one of the top 60 research universities in the United States. The Times largest health science libraries in the Higher Education ranking of the world’s top 100 universities under 50 years old country. places UIC as third among young campuses in the U.S. and #13 world-wide. UIC’s • UIC offers bachelor’s degrees in 82 fields, students reflect the diverse, global nature of Chicago and other great cities around as well as a wide range of graduate and professional programs. the country and the world. Its research and scholarly output within and across • UIC has over 16,000 undergraduates and disciplines asks and answers important questions that contribute to the political, nearly 11,000 graduate students. environmental, physical and economic well-being of society. • More than three-fourths of the tenured faculty teach freshman courses. UIC is one of three campuses that form the University of Illinois, the state's best and most comprehensive public university. Along with the campuses at Urbana- • One in ten Chicagoans with a college degree is a UIC graduate as are one-third of all Champaign and Springfield, the campus at Chicago serves the people of Illinois dentists and pharmacists, one-sixth of all through a shared commitment to our missions of excellence in teaching, research, physicians, one-tenth of all advanced public service and economic development. practice nurses, and one in 20 of all nurses in Illinois. This position is a wonderful opportunity for an experienced, visionary leader to help • The faculty engage in a vast array of research sustain and advance the University’s commitments to greater diversity, to more areas and include many internationally renowned leaders. effective undergraduate, graduate and professional education, and to integration of new and existing scholarship among the different disciplines in higher education. • UIC alumnae/alumni are likewise renowned for their contributions to many different sectors of society. The chancellor and vice president reports directly to the president of the University 1 Applied Health Sciences; Architecture, Design, and the of Illinois and, under the direction of the president, serves as the chief executive Arts; Business Administration; Dentistry; Education; officer for the Chicago campus. The chancellor and vice president can expect to join Engineering; Graduate; Honors; Liberal Arts and Sciences; Medicine; Nursing; Pharmacy; Public Health; Social Work; a dynamic group of leaders on campus and to work closely with the president and Urban Planning and Public Affairs other chancellors and vice presidents. For the past five and a half years, Chancellor Paula Allen-Meares has led UIC with distinction. Under her leadership, UIC has

Chancellor/Vice President search Page | 1 University of Illinois at Chicago revised 7/14 with new for-full-consideration date uic.edu grown in size, stature and complexity. The campus is well-positioned to realize its goal of becoming the nation’s premier urban public research university.

The chancellor and vice president’s appointment will be effective on or about January 1, 2015.

AN OPPORTUNITY UIC’s biggest assets are its faculty, students and staff with a unique mission of providing the broadest access to excellence. Its challenges, like many public institutions, are ones of resource management and procurement with dwindling state support in the face of regulatory burdens.

UIC’s unique location in the heart of a vibrant city presents incredible opportunities for the new chancellor. A seminal contribution of the new chancellor would be to position UIC to be a major player in the evolving delivery of health care in the 21st century in a global city, including engaging its network of community partners.

The opportunities are to embrace a vision of positioning UIC as the premier, high caliber public research university and to achieve its full potential as an AAU institution while promoting its unique mission of providing broadest access to and achieving success at the highest levels of intellectual excellence.

Chancellor/Vice President search Page | 2 University of Illinois at Chicago revised 7/14 with new for-full-consideration date uic.edu HISTORY UIC has had an extraordinary history, evolving from the needs of the people of Illinois. UIC traces its origins to several private health colleges founded during the nineteenth century, including the Chicago College of Pharmacy, which opened in 1859, the College of Physicians and Surgeons (1882) and the Columbian College of Dentistry (1891).

The University of Illinois was chartered in 1867 in downstate Champaign-Urbana, as the state’s land-grant university. The Chicago-based health colleges affiliated with the University in 1896-97, becoming fully incorporated into the University of Illinois in 1913 as the Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy. In the succeeding decades, several other health science colleges—brought together as the Chicago Professional Colleges of the University of Illinois—were developed. In 1961, these colleges became the University of Illinois at the Medical Center.

Following World War II, the University of Illinois increased its presence in Chicago by creating a temporary, two-year branch campus on . The Chicago Undergraduate Division primarily accommodated students who were veterans attending college on the G.I. Bill. Demand for a public university education in Chicago remained high long after the war, so the University made plans to create a permanent degree-granting campus in the Chicago area. Mayor Richard J. Daley offered the Harrison and Halsted site near the original Jane Addams , in Chicago’s historic Near West Side, for the new campus.

The University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, named for the nearby ultra-modern freeway interchange, opened in February 1965. “Circle” (as it was called) was a degree-granting institution with ambitions to become a great university. Within five years of the campus’ opening, almost every department offered graduate degrees. In 1982, the Circle and Medical Center campuses consolidated to form the University of Illinois at Chicago. This merger strengthened UIC’s potential for

Chancellor/Vice President search Page | 3 University of Illinois at Chicago revised 7/14 with new for-full-consideration date uic.edu scholarly excellence and pushed UIC to Carnegie Research I institution status in 1987. The University is now classified as a Carnegie RU/VH institution: Research Universities/Very High research activity.

THE CAMPUS UIC is an urban campus in the heart of a global city, and the institution remains inextricably tied to the city of Chicago primarily through initiatives in health care, education and social work. UIC is an economic engine for the city and state both as a place of employment and in the over half a billion federal dollars garnered.

UIC is the largest university in the Chicago area with 15 colleges and the state’s major public medical center. The Health Science Colleges currently include the School of Public Health, the Colleges of Applied Health Sciences, Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and the Jane Addams College of Social Work. The campus is the 15th largest employer in the Chicago area, with over 2,500 faculty and 3,000 administrative and professional staff and almost 6,000 support staff. A majority of the support staff are represented by various trade, service and professional unions. Approximately 40 percent of the staff are African-American or Latino/a. UIC, part of the three-campus University of Illinois system, has a $2.08 billion budget (excluding payments on behalf for benefits and the Academic Facilities Maintenance Fund Assessment) and $388.6 million in total annual research expenditures according to the latest NSF Higher Education R&D Survey (2012).

UIC students come from every economic stratum. Most are from Chicago and its suburbs, although many come from other parts of the world. The University’s mission to be inclusive and engaged while striving for the highest academic standards has been possible because the superb faculty blends outstanding scholarship with a commitment to teaching students and involving them in scholarly endeavors. UIC is proud to nurture many students who are first in their family to go to college as it works to become the premier urban public research university in the

Chancellor/Vice President search Page | 4 University of Illinois at Chicago revised 7/14 with new for-full-consideration date uic.edu United States. The student body consists of nearly 28,000 students, nearly 40 percent of whom are professional or graduate students.

UIC occupies approximately 243 acres in a mid-city location west of the Loop, the center of Chicago’s downtown. The Rockford and Peoria regional health sciences campuses bring UIC’s total holdings to almost 300 acres and more than 15 million gross square feet in 130 buildings. With these and additional health sciences campuses in Moline and Urbana, UIC has a statewide presence in health care education. Students have benefited from the construction and refurbishment of two student recreation sports centers and the UIC Forum, the newest university event and conference venue that offers a large reception area, banquet space and conference rooms. , three-time All-Star and starting center-fielder for the New York Mets, recently donated $5 million, the largest gift in UIC Athletics history, to help build a stadium at his alma mater. The Granderson Stadium will serve both Flames baseball fans and Chicago-area youth sports leagues.

UIC’s west side, the site of most of the health science colleges, reflects nearly a century of changing ideas about health care facilities, urban campus planning and city zoning. The first comprehensive master plan for the Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy in 1925 called for the construction of narrow medical buildings around the perimeter of a city block, defining a series of connected courtyards for students and faculty to gather. Today, the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System is made up of several facilities, all of which provide access to different levels of care. These include a 495-bed hospital, outpatient clinic, immediate care clinic, and 11 Mile Square Health Centers including locations in Back of the Yards, Cicero, Englewood, Near West, and South Shore. As a leader in patient care, research and education, UI Health is committed to making positive and lasting differences in health science and in people’s lives.

Chancellor/Vice President search Page | 5 University of Illinois at Chicago revised 7/14 with new for-full-consideration date uic.edu The main facilities of the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, University of Illinois Hospital, the Outpatient Care Center and the largest of the Mile Square Health Center locations are all situated within the larger Illinois Medical District (IMD). The largest medical complex in Illinois and one of the largest urban academic medical districts in the country, IMD also includes several other major institutions: Rush University Medical Center, the John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, and the Jesse Brown Veterans Administration Medical Center, as well as dozens of smaller clinics, laboratories, public agencies and a biotech business incubator.

The east side of the UIC campus is a mid-century modernist landmark designed by celebrated architect Walter Netsch. Though much has changed in the 50 years since originally constructed, Netsch’s remarkable and award-winning vision is still evident. The site, bound to the east and north by two expressways and the Circle Interchange, was located among several ethnic neighborhoods: Little Italy to the west, the Greek Delta to the north, and adjacent African American and Latino/a communities to the south. Part of the campus sits on the site of Jane Addams’ social settlement Hull-House. The Nobel laureate’s home and the Residents’ Dining Hall still stand on the campus today and are on the National Register of Historic Places.

Beginning in the late 1980s and completed in 2008, UIC developed the 85-acre “South Campus” along Halsted Street and the historic corridor. This development of residence halls, the UIC Forum and mixed-use facilities with retail establishments has helped create a vibrant campus environment and enabled UIC to increase its student residential population to an all-time high of approximately 3,800. Many vintage buildings were preserved through adaptive reuse, and the campus completely renovated the 1888 Maxwell Street Police Station as

Chancellor/Vice President search Page | 6 University of Illinois at Chicago revised 7/14 with new for-full-consideration date uic.edu headquarters of the UIC Police, a building now on the National Register of Historic Places.

STUDENTS The North Central Association Accreditation team in 2007 wrote “UIC boasts a level of diversity that many institutions in the nation can only dream about.” UIC values diversity and has successfully recruited talented students, faculty and staff from many backgrounds. For instance, our total (undergraduate, graduate and professional) student population is one of the most racially and ethnically diverse in the nation with 7.9 percent African American, 18.8 percent Asian, 18.6 percent Latino/a and 41.9 percent White. International students comprise 7.7 percent and the rest declare as American Indian, Native Hawaiian/ Pacific Islander, or belonging to two or more races. Students are applying in increasing numbers and reflect the diverse, global nature of contemporary higher education. The institution attracts more than 15,000 applications for its 3,200 first year student seats. UIC has 16,600 undergraduates. As many as one quarter of the first year students have graduated in the top ten percent of their high school class. UIC has increased its six year graduation rate from around 30 percent in the late 1980s to 57 percent for the 2007 matriculates (its most recent cohort report) and aims to increase this to 65 percent. The campus takes pride in its racial, ethnic and gender diversity, but also recognizes a continued need to advance educational equity. A significant percentage of students speak English as a second language. UIC has applied for designation as a Hispanic Serving Institution that requires serving an undergraduate student population that is at least 25 percent Hispanic. UIC has been named one of the nation’s 25 best campuses for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students.

UIC students have been recipients of Rhodes, Truman, Goldwater, Fulbright, Ford and other nationally competitive scholarships for graduate studies. Since 2001, 57 individuals have earned Fulbright Fellowships, 19 have received Goldwater Scholarships, and three have been awarded Gates-Cambridge Scholarships.

Chancellor/Vice President search Page | 7 University of Illinois at Chicago revised 7/14 with new for-full-consideration date uic.edu The nearly 11,000 enrolled graduate and professional students comprise nearly 40 percent of the student body. These students are vitally important to UIC’s scholarly endeavors and are also actively involved in the life of the campus through student governance, student organizations and public service. Many of the graduate students are recipients of prestigious, individual, national pre-doctoral awards from foundations and from government agencies such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

A total of 3,096 international students, representing more than 95 countries and territories, enrolled at UIC for fall 2013, an increase of 9 percent from the preceding year and 29 percent over the year before that. International students are now 7.7 percent of UIC’s student body.

Student life is vibrant. Forty percent of UIC’s first- year students choose to live in campus housing, and perhaps a quarter of all students live in the neighborhoods near campus, making for a vital, 24-hour academic community. UIC is home to more than 350 student organizations, sports clubs, volunteer groups, Greek fraternities and sororities, and cultural associations. These organizations are committed to enhancing the surrounding communities. Campus Recreation offers students and the UIC community two state-of-the-art fitness facilities—one on each side of campus—with exercise equipment, indoor courts, pools, fitness suites, jogging tracks and more. The campus fields 20 NCAA Division I men’s and women’s varsity teams, with almost 400 student-athletes who compete with pride as the UIC Flames.

Chancellor/Vice President search Page | 8 University of Illinois at Chicago revised 7/14 with new for-full-consideration date uic.edu FACULTY UIC’s most important resource, its faculty, is diverse, well-respected, and engaged. Three UIC faculty have been MacArthur “genius award” winners. Other faculty have earned prestigious awards of national societies, including membership to the National Institute of Medicine, and honorary degrees. Faculty have also earned fellowships, career awards and grants from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Academy of Science, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, and the U.S. Departments of Defense, Energy, Veterans Administration and Education, among others.

More than 1,600 faculty members are engaged in instruction. UIC students have access to nationally and globally recognized scientists, scholars, artists, writers, clinicians and educators who bring their discoveries and insights into the classroom. Recently, the non-tenured and tenured faculty (excluding faculty in the colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy) chose to be represented by the UIC United Faculty Local 6456 affiliated with the AFT-IFT and AAUP, which has resulted in a first contract for both bargaining units.

ACADEMICS UIC strives to provide a world-class education in the heart of a global city and places a strong emphasis on academic excellence. It aspires to realize its AAU potential and be the premier urban public research university in the U.S. The 15 academic colleges offer a broad range of undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees including bachelor’s degrees in 82 academic areas, master’s degrees in 93 disciplines and 66 doctoral specializations. UIC has a wide variety of disciplines including engineering and physical sciences, mathematics, social sciences, education, humanities and the arts, health sciences, business and public policy. The campus prides itself on the

Chancellor/Vice President search Page | 9 University of Illinois at Chicago revised 7/14 with new for-full-consideration date uic.edu many inter-college programs including the Center for Clinical and Translational Research, the Center for Structural Biology, the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, and the Council for Teacher Education. In a bold new step to enhance interactions, the Department of Bioengineering reports to the deans of both the College of Engineering and the College of Medicine.

UIC’s mission, assets and location have helped it build innumerable partnerships, ranging from small joint community projects to “big-science” endeavors and collaborations with other leading universities and government agencies. Relationships with educational institutions in the Chicago area include long-term ties between the College of Education and the Chicago Public Schools as well as with the City Colleges of Chicago that create a pipeline for underrepresented minority male students to pursue baccalaureate degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics and that bridge minority students into health science careers.

Collaborations with other top research institutions place UIC at the leading edge of scientific research. The Chicago Biomedical Consortium, a collaboration of UIC, Northwestern University and the University of Chicago, pools the resources of these top-tier research institutions to encourage novel research explorations leading to successful and highly competitive collaborations. Argonne National Laboratory’s $120 million Joint Center for Energy Storage Research is directed by a UIC physicist. Because of UIC’s close ties with the Department of Energy’s Fermilab, UIC physicists are at the center of U.S. consortiums working with CERN on projects such as the search for and discovery of the Higgs boson.

Among the many achievements of its academic units are the following:

• UIC ranks 54th in federally financed higher education R & D expenditures and 57th in total research expenditures among U.S. universities according to the latest (2012) NSF Higher Education R&D Survey.

Chancellor/Vice President search Page | 10 University of Illinois at Chicago revised 7/14 with new for-full-consideration date uic.edu • UIC’s Colleges of Applied Health Sciences, Nursing and Pharmacy are perennially among the top ten nationally in NIH funding focusing on areas ranging from cancer, pharmacognosy, biotechnology to disability studies; nursing is currently ranked second nationally in NIH funding. • Faculty at UIC’s College of Medicine garner the largest share of competitive NIH funding to support ground breaking research in numerous areas including the biochemical basis of depression and autism; cancer; cardiovascular and lung biology; metabolic disorders; understanding host-microbial interactions; and elucidating the structure of proteins. • UIC received a $16.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to improve teacher quality and reform teacher education at high-need schools. The Chicago Teacher Pipeline Partnership, led by UIC, includes the Chicago Public Schools, 20 elementary schools and four universities. • UIC leads a five-year, $19.2 million project funded by the Education Department’s Institute of Education Sciences to study reading comprehension and to develop approaches to help students in middle school and high school. • UIC’s Electronic Visualization Laboratory is a renowned interdisciplinary research laboratory that pioneered development of the CAVE™ virtual-reality system and Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment (SAGE) display wall. CAVE2 is the next generation large-scale virtual-reality environment, a hybrid that creates a seamless 2D/3D environment to support information-rich analysis and virtual-reality simulation at a resolution matching human visual acuity. • The Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science’s award- winning faculty include 15 Sloan Fellows, 13 NSF Career award winners and 11 fellows of the American Mathematical Society’s 2012 inaugural class. • The UIC College of Business Administration’s undergraduate program is the highest ranked in the Chicago area by U.S. News & World Report for the past two years.

Chancellor/Vice President search Page | 11 University of Illinois at Chicago revised 7/14 with new for-full-consideration date uic.edu • Faculty in the humanities and related fields consistently receive prestigious awards and fellowships from agencies like the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Guggenheim Foundation. • UIC received more than $10 million in federal grants to study cyber security. UIC is one of three universities in the nation to offer an interdisciplinary PhD program utilizing cutting-edge research from a variety of fields to solve challenging electronic security and privacy problems. • UIC continues to be at the forefront in STEM education and research. Faculty in Education and all eleven of the STEM departments have received NSF, NIH, and Department of Education funding for research, education and outreach at all levels (high school, undergraduate, graduate and postdocs) as well as for programs that enhance the climate for minority and women faculty in STEM areas. UIC’s work on student success in STEM areas have been nationally recognized; UIC was the only Illinois institution selected to showcase STEM efforts at the Coalition for National Science Funding event at the US Capitol, Washington, DC in May 2014. • NIH awarded a $20 million grant to UIC’s Center for Clinical and Translational Science, part of a national consortium working to accelerate laboratory discoveries into treatments for patients, to engage communities in clinical research and to train a new generation of researchers. • UIC’s Institute on Disability and Human Development received a $4.4 million grant from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research to focus on the health and function of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.

Chancellor/Vice President search Page | 12 University of Illinois at Chicago revised 7/14 with new for-full-consideration date uic.edu • UIC has a track record of spawning innovation and creating an economic impact with its basic research, from the development of a new technology for night vision and solar energy to sustainable fuel development based on a discovery of new catalytic pathways for breaking down carbon dioxide. • UIC has received $14.2 million from the National Cancer Institute to study how mass media, pricing and taxes affect tobacco use and behavior. A $12.4 million grant from the NCI will allow UIC researchers to study the predictors of smoking patterns from adolescence through young adulthood. • A documentary on prison hospice care produced by staff in UIC’s Jane Addams College of Social Work was nominated for a 2014 Academy Award. The college is consistently ranked among the top 25 nationally in surveys. • UIC has been awarded two NIH grants totaling $17 million to fund two health disparities centers focusing on underserved and minority women with breast cancer, health disparities in prostate and colorectal cancer, and training the next generation of health disparities researchers. • The UIC Institute for Minority Health Research is managing a contract of up to $15 million from the NIH to follow, over the next six years, all Chicago participants in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latino/as, the largest-ever prospective health study of this population. • UIC has received multiple awards from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) totaling more than $10 million to study the clinical impact of interventions to decrease repeat hospitalizations and identify and treat complications of chronic disease. • Studies in Africa led by a UIC epidemiologist showed that medical circumcision can dramatically reduce men’s risk of acquiring HIV. The research topped Time magazine’s list of the world’s 10 most important medical breakthroughs for 2007.

Chancellor/Vice President search Page | 13 University of Illinois at Chicago revised 7/14 with new for-full-consideration date uic.edu • Cure Violence, housed in the UIC School of Public Health, seeks to reduce violence by treating it like an infectious disease. The program is used in more than a dozen U.S. cities and a growing number of countries. • UIC’s Institute for the Humanities, one of the oldest such institutions in the country, promotes interdisciplinary scholarship by mixing faculty and graduate student fellows and distinguished visitors together and by sponsoring lectures, conferences, colloquia and working groups. The institute is part of the new 15- university “Humanities without Walls” consortium funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. • UIC is home to the Inter-University Program for Latino Research, a consortium of 25 university-based research centers focusing on Latino/as. • UIC’s College of Nursing was the first to be designated as a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Nursing and Midwifery Development in the United States. It was also designated as an Edge-Runner by the American Academy of Nursing, for its innovative teaching and research that affects health policy and directly improves the lives of patients world-wide. • As a public research university in a global city, UIC has an inescapable international dimension. Nationally, UIC was ranked 30th in number of sponsored international scholars, and 54th in international student enrollment by the Institute for International Education (2010). UIC’s international students hail from more than 95 countries and territories, mirroring the diversity of UIC’s domestic student body. UIC is also home to 5 Designated World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centers and a Center for Global Health.

Chancellor/Vice President search Page | 14 University of Illinois at Chicago revised 7/14 with new for-full-consideration date uic.edu ACADEMICS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT UIC is deeply engaged with the state and the community in public service and economic development. UIC continually learns from its many community partners and is grateful for their contributions to the production of transformative knowledge at UIC.

• The Great Cities Institute serves local communities through engaged, interdisciplinary research, policy analysis and program development that can be applied to cities worldwide. Current foci are on employment and economic development, citizen participation in local and regional governance, and the dynamics of global mobility. • The UIC Jane Addams College of Social Work graduates more than 200 practitioners each year to work with under-resourced communities throughout Chicago and Illinois to facilitate individual and social change. • UIC works with industry leaders to provide innovative internships for students and graduates. For example, the College of Engineering has a guaranteed paid summer internship program for successful freshmen. Last year over 315 companies hired College of Engineering students for internships and permanent engineering jobs. • UIC established the campus-wide Social Justice Initiative in 2012 in which faculty, staff, and community partners sponsor strategy sessions, group art projects, workshops and internships to help motivated students gain the critical thinking and research skills needed to be agents of social change. The initiative explores the meaning and practice of social justice relating to the environment, health disparities, violence, racism, poverty and immigration.

Chancellor/Vice President search Page | 15 University of Illinois at Chicago revised 7/14 with new for-full-consideration date uic.edu • UIC and UI Health are participants in CAPRriCORN, the Chicago Area Patient Centered Outcomes Research Network, a coalition to develop a data infrastructure to compile and share data from more than one million individuals across the Chicago region. • The Office of Sustainability advances initiatives that bring UIC towards greater social, economic and environmental sustainability. Through campus and regional collaborations UIC has positioned itself as a major player in advancing sustainability in the Chicago region. • UIC partners with Noble network to sponsor the UIC College Prep Charter School focused on health sciences. This “highest performing non-selective school in the City of Chicago” graduated its first class in 2012 with all 180 students accepted to four-year colleges. • The UIC Pavilion and UIC forum are sought after venues in the city. Together they host over 300 diverse events attracting more than 500,000 patrons annually including athletic competitions, concerts, local college and high school commencements, religious ceremonies, business conferences and symposia.

BUDGET Like most public institutions of higher education, UIC is facing severe fiscal and budgetary challenges. The state general revenue fund provides only 12 percent of UIC’s total budget of $2.08 billion in FY2014. Though the state appropriation for UIC dropped by about $49 million from FY2010, the total UIC budget grew by $241 million. State general revenue funds account for $240 million, while tuition is expected to bring in $368 million this fiscal year. In addition, auxiliary enterprises and departmental activities, including the medical center, will provide almost $850 million and institutional funds will provide $116.2 million. Approximately $504 million come from gifts, grants and contracts.

Chancellor/Vice President search Page | 16 University of Illinois at Chicago revised 7/14 with new for-full-consideration date uic.edu While the University’s budget is growing, significant portions of the income are in restricted accounts, and the University will have to carefully assess its current program activities and make some potentially difficult decisions moving forward.

A VISION FOR THE FUTURE UIC shares in the overall mission of the University of Illinois, which is to transform lives and serve society by educating, creating knowledge and putting knowledge to work. UIC’s strength and reputation is founded on its core values and unique mission of engagement, social justice, and providing the broadest access to the highest levels of intellectual excellence and ensuing success.

UIC’s mission is to:

• Create knowledge that transforms our views of the world and, through sharing and application, transform the world. • Provide a wide range of students with the educational opportunity only a leading research university can offer. • Address the challenges and opportunities facing not only Chicago, but all Great Cities of the 21st century, as expressed by the Great Cities Commitment. • Foster scholarship and practices that reflect and respond to the increasing diversity of the U.S. in a rapidly globalizing world. • Train professionals in a wide range of public service disciplines, serving Illinois as the principal educator of health science professionals and as a major health care provider to underserved communities.

Chancellor/Vice President search Page | 17 University of Illinois at Chicago revised 7/14 with new for-full-consideration date uic.edu ROLE OF THE CHANCELLOR AND VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO As chief executive officer, the chancellor and vice president’s leadership authority and responsibilities will be as defined by the University’s Statutes and General Rules and as delegated by the President. She/he will shape UIC’s core values through her/his statements and actions in ways that demonstrate:

• An active commitment to excellence in every aspect of the affairs of UIC. Foremost is to provide an outstanding educational experience for our uniquely diverse students and to support and enhance our faculty’s research. • A clear articulation of the vision of UIC that excites students, staff, faculty and benefactors to the value added by having UIC as a premier research institution in an urban setting. • A dedication to growing a preeminent educational institution by supporting the recruitment and retention of talented faculty, staff and students to its academic community. • The ability to promote the education, research and service missions of a major research university with the only comprehensive health sciences system in the state of Illinois. • Embracing UIC as one of the nation’s most diverse campuses and its commitment to fostering diversity—in all its forms—throughout the institution and building a more inclusive and supportive environment for teaching and learning. • A capacity to build and sustain strong administrative teams and to be a leader who consults with and receives advice from all the diverse constituencies of UIC. • A clear articulation of the UIC mission, strengths and excellence to the broader University of Illinois community including the President and Board of Trustees.

Chancellor/Vice President search Page | 18 University of Illinois at Chicago revised 7/14 with new for-full-consideration date uic.edu • A strong advocacy and promotion of UIC and its initiatives as the premier urban public research university amongst all communities of stakeholders, including leaders of government, business and industry, as well as foundations in Chicago, in the state of Illinois and in national and international arenas. • A major commitment to acquiring resources for UIC’s academic enterprise through philanthropy and partnerships with alumni/ae and with public and private funding sources including business, government, industry and other research institutions. • A commitment to supporting inter-disciplinary collaborations within UIC and between UIC and other educational and research institutions in the U.S. and abroad. • A respect for and a commitment to the principle of shared governance by engaging UIC’s Senate especially on educational initiatives and academic policies and in setting campus policies and procedures. • An appreciation for the value of athletics and other co-curricular activities as an integral part of the educational program and as a unifying factor for UIC’s community of students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends. • A commitment to apply the resources given to UIC by its many sources of financial support, including the citizens of the state of Illinois, to the highest purpose in an operationally superior fashion. • A dedication to the public safety and welfare of the campus community and compliance with state and federal regulations. • Leadership in matters of employment, human resource development and providing for a welcoming work climate.

Chancellor/Vice President search Page | 19 University of Illinois at Chicago revised 7/14 with new for-full-consideration date uic.edu OTHER ACTIVITIES The chancellor will have final oversight responsibility for all aspects of the campus. This includes responsibility for the resources allocated to the campus. He/she will have a leadership team including the vice chancellors for academic affairs (provost), administrative services, development, health affairs, research, student affairs and the executive associate chancellor for public and government affairs. Each VC has a budget, determined by the chancellor to support activities within her/ his jurisdiction.

The vice chancellors for academic affairs and health affairs will work closely to oversee the academic missions of the university and, under the direction of the chancellor, will play an integral role in the financial decision making for the campus. As chief academic officer of the campus, with duties delegated and assigned by the chancellor, the vice chancellor for academic affairs and provost plays an essential role in financial decision-making related to academic affairs and has a strong voice, as well, in all other aspects of campus life. The newly established position of the vice chancellor for health affairs (VCHA), will report to the Chancellor. All units comprising the Academic Health Center (AHC) will report to the VCHA. These units include the hospital, clinics, and the seven health science colleges (Applied Health Science, Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Jane Addams College of Social Work and the School of Public Health) at the UIC campus, together with regional sites at Peoria, Quad Cities, Rockford, and Urbana. The University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System is critical to UIC’s mission and the University’s overall mission to serve the citizens of Illinois. To provide broad oversight of the AHC, the President will have regular meetings with the, UIC Chancellor, UIC VCHA, UIC Provost and the chief financial officer of the University.

In addition the offices of the associate chancellor for alumni relations, director office for access and equity, director of athletics, and assistant vice president for human resources report to the chancellor. Other reports include the vice provost for

Chancellor/Vice President search Page | 20 University of Illinois at Chicago revised 7/14 with new for-full-consideration date uic.edu diversity and senior advisor to the chancellor and the associate chancellor and vice provost for budget and resource planning.

In the role of vice president, the chancellor serves as a member of the president’s cabinet, participates in the overall planning, allocation and evaluation operations of the University and helps executes the policies of the Board of Trustees and the University-wide policies. He/she advises the president on business, employment and other operational matters and works with other University officers to ensure the wellbeing of the institution as a whole. This includes developing the university budget based on the goals of the entire university and the needs of the individual campuses. The other cabinet members include the chancellors and vice presidents of the campuses at Urbana-Champaign and Springfield, the vice presidents for academic affairs and for research, the chief financial officer and comptroller, and the chief legal counsel.

The chancellor and vice president serves as an ex-officio member of the Development Committee of University of Illinois Foundation Board of Directors, as well as on the University of Illinois Alumni Association Board of Directors. She/he is the key representative of UIC at the meetings of the Board of Trustees.

Chancellor/Vice President search Page | 21 University of Illinois at Chicago revised 7/14 with new for-full-consideration date uic.edu QUALIFICATIONS OF THE NEXT CHANCELLOR OF UIC AND VICE PRESIDENT The next chancellor and vice president must have professional qualifications and personal characteristics that embody UIC’s mission, ideals and aspirations. The chancellor and vice president must be able to lead an administration that is committed to consultation with the goal of advancing UIC.

Preference will be given to individuals with the following attributes:

• A strong academic background suited to faculty leadership that will include an earned doctorate or equivalent credentials and eligibility for appointment at the level of full professor. • Experiences appropriate to leading a large, distinguished, urban research university with a significant health care enterprise, including the ability to identify, attract, retain and support talented people. • Experiences in or knowledge of a public research university and its vital role in local, state and national economies as well as the implications of changes in higher education for an institution like UIC. • A thorough understanding of major issues in undergraduate, graduate and professional education. • A commitment to interdisciplinary and engaged research. • A proven record of quality program development in higher education. • The ability to add value to the UI Hospital and Health System as well as to the council of deans in furthering strategies and policies to advance the institution. • The ability to inspire support for UIC’s mission, and the mix of consultative style and decisiveness that are needed to lead a $2 billion academic enterprise in changing fiscal environments.

Chancellor/Vice President search Page | 22 University of Illinois at Chicago revised 7/14 with new for-full-consideration date uic.edu • A demonstrated commitment to diversity in areas of hiring, promotion, student enrollment, retention and graduation. • An established record of working with a diverse campus population. • The ability to foster an efficient and excellent administrative team with openness and flexibility. • Teamwork skills to build an effective relationship with the president and the board of trustees. • A demonstrated ability to collaborate and communicate effectively with multiple campus constituencies. • A thorough understanding of and commitment to the critical role of external engagement at the local, state, national and international levels in leading a premier, urban public research institution. • The ability to be a strong advocate for promoting the mission and value of UIC with government leaders in the city, state and national arenas. • A demonstrated ability to seek, initiate and cultivate relationships with businesses, foundations, community organizations and other groups interested in education, research and health care with an objective to elicit greater philanthropic, partnership and political support for UIC. • Experience in building enduring, mutually enriching, and rewarding relationships with alumni/ae and the larger community of friends and supporters. • High ethical standards, strong moral values and a sense of humor.

Chancellor/Vice President search Page | 23 University of Illinois at Chicago revised 7/14 with new for-full-consideration date uic.edu APPLICATION PROCESS The President has retained the executive search firm Parker Executive Search to assist in this search. All applications, inquiries and nominations, which will remain confidential, should be directed to the search firm as indicated below.

The Search Committee invites letters of nomination, applications (letter of interest, complete CV, and contact information of at least five references), or expressions of interest to be submitted to the search firm assisting the University of Illinois at Chicago. Confidential review of materials will begin immediately and continue until final candidates for the appointment are identified. It is preferred, however, that all nominations and applications be submitted prior to October 1, 2014, to the search firm:

Laurie C. Wilder, Executive Vice President and Managing Director Katie M. Bain, Vice President, Academic Health Sciences and Higher Education Parker Executive Search Five Concourse Parkway, Suite 2900 Atlanta, GA 30328 [email protected] (email submission is preferred) 770-804-1996, ext 108

For more information about the position and the search, please visit: www.uillinois.edu/searches/uicchancellor

The University of Illinois is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer dedicated to building a community of excellence, equity and diversity. University Administration welcomes applications from women, underrepresented minorities, individuals with disabilities, protected veterans, members of sexual minority groups and other candidates who will lead and contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives. As a condition of employment, the successful candidate must have or be able to obtain a security clearance. The security clearance must be maintained while employed, as Chancellor and Vice President of UIC, by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.

Chancellor/Vice President search Page | 24 University of Illinois at Chicago revised 7/14 with new for-full-consideration date uic.edu NOTES Photos courtesy of UIC units including the News Bureau, UIC Photo Services, Library, and UIC Flames.

Page 2 Community mosaic

Page 3 College of Medicine, early years Navy Pier

Page 4 East campus skyline looking toward downtown Students walking in fall

Page 5 College of Medicine building today College of Dentistry, early years

Page 6 Newly opened Mile Square Health Center Netsch elevated walkways and University Hall

Page 7 Student band plays at the annual fall welcome for freshmen Student

Page 8 Flames baseball player 2014 Student Research Forum

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Page 10 Maria Varelas, Curriculum and Instruction Scientific research

Page 11 Electronic Visualization Lab’s CAVE Peter Doran and Fabien King, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Page 12 UIC STEM poster presented by Mitra Dutta, vice chancellor for research, at the Coalition for National Science Funding, May 2014

Page 13 Image from the Academy Award-nominated documentary from the Jane Addams College of Social Work

Page 14 Maripat King, Silver Circle teaching award winner, College of Nursing

Page 15 College of Engineering internship student UIC Heritage Garden, a project of project of the Centers for Cultural Understanding and Social Change under the supervision of the Latino Cultural Center

Page 16 Student collaborating in a UIC computer lab

Page 17 Meeting at the Innovation Center, an intercollege collaborative education and incubation center embedded in UIC

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Page 19 Research poster session Innovation slide from recent campus event

Page 20 Simulation in the Jump Trading Simulation and Education Center, College of Medicine, Peoria

Page 21 DNA-inspired staircase in the Molecular Biology Research Building on the West Campus

Page 22 Daley Library exhibit

Page 23 Scientific research

Page 24 UIC logo for the Chancellor’s office

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