Campus Forum

For several decades, the UIC Campus Forum has provided wonderful opportunities to hear about innovations and achievements across campus. Enjoy getting to know your colleagues once a month over lunch, and then hearing a presentation on a stimulating topic pertinent to UIC. The buffet lunch is served at noon (cost is listed below), and the program, which begins at 12:30 p.m. and lasts approximately one hour, is free and open to all. Become a member and join us for lunch for the entire season for only $60!* Please note the updated schedule, with the Chancellor's talk on “A Strategic Plan for UIC” now scheduled for January 31, 2006.

*Campus Forum can be covered through the LLEAP program (if you qualify). For more information about LLEAP, visit: http://www.uic.edu/orgs/LLEAP/LLeap.html.

To register, please complete the membership form (35KB PDF file) and e-mail it to Kelly McCray at ckm0903@uic.edu.

Checks should be made payable to Campus Forum. Payment options:

Deliver check to: Student Development Services, Suite 1600 Student Services Building.
Mail check to: Kelly McCray, Student Development Services, M/C 320.
For your convenience, you may also bring your check to the first session on December 7th.

In all cases, please provide a copy of the membership form with your check.

****You must RSVP by 9 a.m. on Monday, December 5th to be guaranteed lunch at the inaugural program on December 7th. Please note that guaranteed seating requires pre-registration. RSVP for individual programs by 9 a.m. three days prior to the event.

2005-06 Programs

January 19, "College of Medicine Research Building"
Speaker: Richard Benya, MD, Professor of Medicine & Director, GI Cancers Program
Location: College of Medicine Research Building, 909 S. Wolcott Ave., Room 2175
To ensure that the UIC College of Medicine remains in the vanguard of biomedical research, the university and the state of Illinois have joined together to fund the single largest capital project in the state's history-the construction of the new $145 million College of Medicine Research Building. Hear from Dr. Benya about the types of research conducted in the new facility and tour one of the labs.

*New Date
January 31 , "A Strategic Plan for UIC"
Speaker: Sylvia Manning, Chancellor
Location: 302 SCE
In March 2005 President White announced the development of a University of Illinois Strategic Plan, with an aggressive schedule that had draft campus-level plans due on October 31. The resulting strategic plan for UIC, which will remain in draft form until early January, should serve as a guide to how we will sustain the great momentum UIC has achieved over the past decade and how we will move UIC to an ever more brilliant future over the decade to come.

February 22, “Founder's Day”
Speaker: Peg Strobel, Director of Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Location: Hull-House
Through images and words, Peg Strobel, Director, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum , will explain the significance of Jane Addams and Hull-House in history and to UIC, describe the Museum's past activities and accomplishments, and lay out future goals.

March 22, “East Side Recreation Center”
Speaker: Rob Rouzer, Director of UIC Student Centers
and Ray Clay, Director of Campus Recreation
Location: 302 SCE (& Rec Ctr E)
Join the group for lunch in room 302 SCE where you will hear briefly about the new Recreation Center East building. Then proceed with Rob Rouzer and Ray Clay across the street to have a tour of the brand new Recreation Center East.

April 20, “Why do we Age?”
Speaker: Jay Olshansky Chicago, Professor of Epidemiology
Location: Room A SCW
The recent rise of childhood obesity in the United States suggests that today's younger generation could, for the first time in the modern era, live shorter and less healthy lives than their parents' generation. The effects of obesity on the life expectancy of the U.S. population are documented in Olshansky et al's special report published in 2005 in the New England Journal of Medicine. This talk will look at the public policy implications of this phenomenon, especially in light of official government forecasts of life expectancy and the effects of such forecasts on the solvency of age-entitlement programs.

May 17, “The New Town/Gown”
Speaker: Sharon Haar, Associate Professor, School of Architecture
Location: 302 SCE
How do cities, once anathema to higher education find themselves now so intertwined in the future of American pedagogy? And how are urban campuses reshaping American cities? This talk will look at new town-gown relationships and their implications for architectural, urban, and campus design.