Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1994 [PAGE 559]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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1. Please give us your perceptions of higher education from your career experience and how these can relate to the chancellorship at the University of Illinois at Chicago. 2. What aspects of the position at our Chicago campus interest you most now and for your future? 3. Please describe your experiences in developing relationships with faculty, staff, and students as an administrator. Tell us about some successes you are proud of that describe your management philosophy. 4. As chancellor of the Chicago campus, how would you develop relationships with faculty and gain their confidence in order to become the leader of the faculty at the campus? How would you develop relationships with staff and students? How would you get feedback on your effectiveness in these areas? 5. What has been your experience in raising funds for a higher education institution? What have you learned from these experiences? Also, what experience have you had with campus-corporate relations and campus relations with other external groups. How would you go about building more of these for UIC? Do you look forward to such efforts? 6. In the chancellor's position, the management of crises and knowing when to take risks are important elements. Give us some examples from your experience of how you have handled these two responsibilities. (Please emphasize your own judgment process in these examples and the way in which you handled internal and external sensitivities.) 7. Please share with us your thoughts and understandings of what is required to administer a large, complex medical center and health care enterprise such as that at UIC. What skills or experience do you have that would aid you in operating the health care delivery aspects of this and ensuring excellence in the academic programs as well? 8. Please describe for us how you would like to carry out UIC's responsibilities to its urban environment. How would you develop and expand on the commitments that exist today? 9. In your view, what are the major issues confronting higher education in the United States today and how would you address these in the setting of UIC if you were chancellor given the broad mission that has been denned for UIC and the limitations on resources? 10. What is your approach to campus governance in a structure like the University of Illinois has? Please give examples of your work with faculty, students, and other administrators on governance matters. How would this translate to what you now know about UIC?