Seventy-Second Annual MeetingUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION

EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCECREATING STUDENT ACCESS AND

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Seventy-Second Annual MeetingUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION

EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCECREATING STUDENT ACCESS AND

“The purpose of this Campaign is to support students so that education is accessible and affordable, and it is to support faculty so that we can ensure that education is excellent, period.”

University President B. Joseph White

Campaign Public Launch, Chicago, June 1, 2007

The University’s Brilliant Futures Campaign reminds all of us about the importance of mission.

In a very real sense, this University belongs to the world...to every person who benefits in some way as a result of the learning, work and accomplishments that proceed from the University of Illinois. Interested in biofuels or wetlands restoration? The U of I is as well. Concerned about the future of the family? So are we. Want to make sure that transplant patients have the greatest chance for survival? We do, too. We take your interests, your concerns and the needs of society and turn them into the future. The aura of Illinois innovation is everywhere, from the MRI used by your hospital to the city revitalization ideas used by your community to the sustainable energy practices used by your state.

At the core of such innovations lie two vital elements: students and faculty. They are the heart of the University’s educational enterprise, the heart of its mission.

BRILLIANT FUTURES

“We take your interests,

your concerns and the

needs of society and

turn them into the future.”

University-level academic work is full of challenges. As a student, you need to figureout how to afford college, how to adapt tocollege life and, often, get used to an entirelynew community or even a new country.Illinois students undergo a personal and social transformation. Their education shapesour students into lifelong learners, permitsthem to engage the knowledge and experienceof others and asks them to fully develop theirown powers of empathy, critical thinking and communication.

Student support can lessen a lot of challengesfor students, giving them the chance to focusmore fully on the real reason that they’re here

learning and personal growth. For studentssystem-wide, scholarships and fellowshipshave made a quality University of Illinois education possible.

When you talk to them, students say that ascholarship or fellowship is the opportunity of a lifetime. It’s an adventure. A chance togrow. It’s a chance to do research, real researchthat influences you to start to think beyondyourself and how you might use your educa-tion to make life better not just for you, butalso for others. It’s the freedom to discoverand explore, and it’s a chance to acquireknowledge that might one day transform notonly your own life but the life of the commu-nity where you live, maybe even the world.

Some say a scholarship is a real incentive, themotivation to do your very best, because evenon days when you have your doubts, someoneelse really believes in you.

And it makes it possible for you to begin tofulfill your dreams whether it’s starting your

own business, curing diseases such as canceror healing pediatric heart defects, discoveringsolutions to the world’s energy problems,finding new construction methods to with-stand hurricane winds or even building astate-of-the-art rocket for the next generationof space exploration.

But many students say that receiving a scholar-ship is not entirely about you. When someonehelps you to earn a world-class education, itmakes you realize, maybe for the first time,how much we need each other to thrive.

And often, students say, you feel so gratefulfor receiving such amazing support, it makesyou realize that maybe the only way you canever really show your appreciation is to oneday help someone else down the line, anotherstudent who might benefit from your support.

CREATING STUDENT ACCESS…

GIVING STUDENTS THE CHANCE TO LEAD, INNOVATE AND SUCCEED

How Your Gifts Help U of I Students

STUDENT SUPPORT

Motivation. Inspiration. New careeravenues. Above all, student supportchanges lives. Maybe even yours oryour family’s.

■ Scholarships

■ Student research support

■ Graduate fellowships

■ Graduate assistantships

There are many ways to give to the University of Illinois whether specificallydirected to your favorite college, department or program, or to the University as awhole. But regardless of how or how much you choose to give, your contributionto the University has an impact on students’ lives by:

■ Providing scholarships and other financial assistance

for hardworking, talented students

■ Enabling students to take part in research

■ Making sure that students have the best classrooms, labs, studios,

study spaces, libraries, clinics and athletic and recreation facilities

■ Funding innovative educational, service and research programs

that prepare students to think critically and solve problems creatively

■ Helping faculty to be the best educators they can be,

in the classrooms and by conducting important research

that keeps the U of I at the forefront of inquiry and imagination

Computer science, agricultural economics,health informatics, medicine, pharmacology,homeland security, e-government, publicaffairs… They have a wide variety of interests.But what they all share is a passion for teaching

a commitment to the intellectual, professionaland personal progress of each and every studentat the University of Illinois.

Because professional growth can be a challengingprocess when undertaken single-handedly,mentor relationships are significant sources of guidance and support for students. Mentorsplay a vital role in developing organizationaland societal leaders by passing on valuableinsights, in addition to knowledge. Our educators distinguished scholars, widelyrespected researchers, published authors andsuccessful industry professionals from aroundthe world try to speak directly to the heartsof our students. They ask: ‘Who will youbecome?’ turning the dialogue around by

not making it about us, but rather about thestudents and about the work that they will doin the future. One life, one career brightensanother, and another, leading to generations of impact.

While University of Illinois students live theconnection between faculty research and learning every day, many of us are not thataware of the role that academic scholarship andresearch plays in our daily lives. Most people never think about where the diagnosticcriteria used in healthcare, medications orcounseling intervention methods actually come from or why they change and improveover time. Many of us don’t question whereadvances in the understanding of aging comesfrom, or why practices in e-commerce or government alter from year-to-year.

Smart, talented people are the epicenter of ourknowledge economy, and one of the University’s

chief goals is to be an educational leader intoday’s evolving global society. The creationand support of endowed chairs and professor-ships can attract and retain exceptional faculty.With your faculty support, you’re making apowerful commitment to fostering researchand scholarship in a given discipline and tobuilding outstanding academic programs atboth the graduate and undergraduate level.

Our University not only transmits knowledge,it also advances knowledge, and outstandingstudent and faculty scholarship is critical toboth endeavors. Research shapes education and education shapes society around theworld. We all need as many brilliant futures as this University has the potential to produce.Our students and their professors have thepower to change the world we have thepower to help them do it.

…AND EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE

U of I students are challenged by faculty whose research and scholarship invigorate their teaching. Help us discover the next frontiers in new knowledge and revolutionize the world’s future one student at a time with your faculty support.

CHAIRS, PROFESSORSHIPS & VISITING SCHOLARS

■ Endowed chairs

■ Endowed professorships

■ Visiting faculty and exchanges

■ Scholars-in-residence

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH

■ Faculty research support

■ Career development awards

■ Endowed funds for specific academic units or areas

FACULTY SUPPORT

“U of I students are

challenged by faculty

whose research and

scholarship invigorate

their teaching.”

Join us at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the U of I Foundation and learn

more about how you can help and what’s in store next. Our Campaign

goal is nothing less than making sure that the University of Illinois is well

recognized both around the nation and around the world as the top public

university in the U.S. When you come together with the passionate teachers,

talented researchers and gifted students of the University of Illinois

BRILLIANT FUTURES HAPPEN.

EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCECREATING STUDENT ACCESS AND

SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIESSeptember 27-28- 29, 2007 I Champaign-Urbana

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

6:00 P.M. FOUNDATION COCKTAIL BUFFET RECEPTIONAlice Campbell Alumni Center

601 S. Lincoln Ave., Urbana

Until 9:00 p.m.

Hosted by

Foundation Chairman and Mrs. Steven L. Miller;

Foundation President and Mrs. Sidney S. Micek;

and, University President and Mrs. B. Joseph White.

Business Casual

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

8:00 A.M. REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFASTKrannert Center, Lobby

500 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana

9:00 A.M. 72ND ANNUAL U OF I FOUNDATION BUSINESS MEETINGKrannert Center, Tryon Festival Theatre

WELCOMESteven L. Miller and Sidney S. Micek

THE UNIVERSITY’S YEAR-IN-REVIEW

PRESENTATION OF FOUNDATION MEMBERS AND ELECTION OF BOARD OF DIRECTORSJane Phillips Donaldson, Chair, Membership

and Governance Committee

ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT OF PRIVATE GIVINGWalter K. Knorr, Chief Financial Officer,

University of Illinois, and Treasurer, U of I Foundation

SPECIAL GIFT ANNOUNCEMENTSUniversity President B. Joseph White

11:30 A.M. FOUNDATION LUNCHEONIllini Union, Illini Rooms A-B-C and South Lounge

Until 1:00 p.m.

PRESENTATION OF THE WILLIAM E. WINTERAWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ADVOCATE LEADERSHIPGeorge J. Kottemann, Chair,

The Presidents Council

CREATING STUDENT ACCESS AND EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCEUniversity President B. Joseph White

1:30 P.M. SHAPING THE LIFE SCIENCES REVOLUTION: PRESENTATION AND TOUR OF THE INSTITUTE FOR GENOMIC BIOLOGYUntil 2:30 p.m.

The Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) is the University of Illinois’s newest center for interdisciplinary research in thelife sciences. Its mission is to create solutions for improvinghealthcare, energy efficiency, agriculture, and the environ-ment, using knowledge gained from genomics. To fulfill itspromise as an engine of economic development for the stateand the nation, the IGB has developed and implementedpeerless programs to accelerate technology transfer and commercialization. You will be among the first to preview the IGB’s spectacular facilities and path-breaking researchprograms. During your visit you can:

visit the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) and glimpse our renewable energy future.The EBI is the largest university-corporate partnership in U.S. history;

see one of the world’s most powerful mass spectrometers, used for identifying new antibiotics to treat and preventhuman diseases;

explore the origins and the complexity of life on earththrough the prism of nature’s most extreme environments;

learn how IGB has integrated law, economics and businessinto its research enterprise, spurring economic development in the state and the nation;

stroll through “Darwin’s Playground” and learn how IGB isreaching across campus to bring together the fine arts and thehumanities to share in the excitement of genomic exploration.

1:30 P.M. INNOVATIVE INITIATIVE: A PRESENTATION ON THE CENTER FOR EDUCATION IN SMALL URBAN COMMUNITIESUntil 2:30 p.m.

No longer is a “college of education” simply a physical location for research, scholarship and training. It’s about innovation, and the College of Education must lead the way in building local and global collaborative relationships. In this presentation, hear about one of the College’s emerging

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initiatives that will facilitate breakthrough knowledge and innovation from community leaders and senior faculty members, including President Emeritus Stanley O. Ikenberry.The Center for Education in Small Urban Communities ispositioned as the premiere center for educational scholarshipand practice in small urban communities, like Champaignand Urbana, which comprise 10,000 of the nation’s 14,000school districts. A panel will discuss the strategies involved in tackling community-wide concerns involving families,community organizations, businesses, civic groups, and educators at every level, and the promising outcomes achieved by working collaboratively.

3:00 P.M. A VISIT TO THE CENTER FOR CHILDREN’S BOOKSUntil 4:00 p.m.

Literacy begins at birth! Children need books they can drool over, chew on, hug, drop in the sand, listen to, laugh at,and love. The Center for Children’s Books at the GraduateSchool of Library and Information Sciences has the best andthe latest, from picture books to fiction and nonfiction forteenagers. Do you know how to select the best in children’sliterature for your children, grandchildren, or students? We would like to share some of these books with you.

Ranked as the “Number One” program in Library andInformation Science and Youth Services in U.S. News andWorld Report, the Center serves as a vital resource for current

and future librarians and teachers who learn to reach childrenthrough reading aloud, storytelling, book-talking, communityprojects, and other creative ways to “do literature.”

The Center is also home to The Bulletin, an authoritativereview journal that identifies the best in children’s literatureannually and is available by subscription. During this sessionwe will talk about how those reviews are conducted, share astory and a reading. This session will inform and demonstratehow The Center for Children’s Books works to inspire andinform adults who connect with young people in publiclibraries and schools with resources in person, in print, and online.

3:00 P.M. TOUR OF THE THOMAS M. SIEBEL CENTER FOR COMPUTER SCIENCEUntil 4:00 p.m.

The Department of Computer Science at Urbana-Champaignis recognized throughout the world as a leader in both educa-tion and research. The department and its graduates have longbeen at the forefront of modern computing and are now onthe threshold of new implicit computing that will changecomputing as profoundly as it did in the earlier eras.

The department has a long and rich history of computingresearch. The faculty has designed and built the world’s fastestcomputers, co-founded the field of computer arithmetic

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and explored the operating system and processor architecture models that underlie modern computer systems. Currentresearch into areas such as smart spaces, multimedia operatingsystems, vision and robotics, and computer security will be no less influential.

The home of the department is the Thomas M. Siebel Centerfor Computer Science, that opened its doors in 2004. SiebelCenter is an interactive computing habitat. Advanced wirelessand wired communications networks, sensors, actuators, videocapture and display equipment, video walls and informationpanels and storage and computing capabilities within thebuilding allow researchers to examine communication andcomputation issues related to pervasive computing, multi-media infrastructure, building intelligence, security and privacy, and art.

6:00 P.M. CHAMPAGNE RECEPTION AND ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP DINNERKrannert Center, Lobby

9:30 P.M. DESSERT BUFFET, COFFEE AND CORDIALSUntil 10:30 p.m.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

10:30 A.M. PRE-GAME SOCIAL HOUR AND BRUNCHThe President’s House, Gardens

711 W. Florida Ave., Urbana

Hosted by University President

and Mrs. B. Joseph White

and Urbana-Champaign Chancellor

and Mrs. Richard Herman

1:00 P.M. ILLINOIS VS. PENN STATEMemorial Stadium, Zuppke Field

Game kick-off time may be affected

by television coverage.

NCAA regulations prohibit sale or

gifting of game tickets.

SPECIAL SESSION:

FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETINGFriday, September 28, at 1:30 p.m.

Harker Hall, Executive Conference Room

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