Bill Text: IL HR0026 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Urges the University of Illinois at Chicago to implement policies and consequences to address and end institutional racism.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-01-31 - Referred to Rules Committee [HR0026 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-HR0026-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, There have been several incidents at the | ||||||
| 3 | University of Illinois at Chicago to illustrate the problem of | ||||||
| 4 | institutional racism; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, It was reported that there were continued issues | ||||||
| 6 | with minority students at the University of Illinois at | ||||||
| 7 | Chicago's College of Medicine on April 27, 1998; and
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| 8 | WHEREAS, It was reported that a claim of gender | ||||||
| 9 | discrimination was being litigated between a member of the | ||||||
| 10 | faculty and the University of Illinois at Chicago on April 5, | ||||||
| 11 | 2022; and
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| 12 | WHEREAS, It was reported that a employee was suing the | ||||||
| 13 | University of Illinois at Chicago due to the University | ||||||
| 14 | creating a hostile workplace through racial harassment on | ||||||
| 15 | February 11, 2019; and
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| 16 | WHEREAS, on November 21, 2022 it was reported that a | ||||||
| 17 | dentistry professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago | ||||||
| 18 | used racist imagery in teaching students and made racist | ||||||
| 19 | comments; therefore, be it
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| 20 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
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| 1 | HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
| 2 | we urge the University of Illinois at Chicago to implement | ||||||
| 3 | policies and consequences to address and end institutional | ||||||
| 4 | racism; and be it further
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| 5 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 6 | delivered to the President of the University of Illinois | ||||||
| 7 | System and the Chancellor of the University of Illinois at | ||||||
| 8 | Chicago.
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