Bill Text: IL HR0987 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Congratulates Robert Terry Starks of Chicago on the occasion of his retirement as associate professor with the Northeastern Illinois University Inner City Studies Education Program.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Passed) 2012-04-25 - Resolution Adopted [HR0987 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-HR0987-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
| 3 | Representatives are pleased to congratulate Robert Terry | ||||||
| 4 | Starks of Chicago on the occasion of his retirement as | ||||||
| 5 | associate professor with the Northeastern Illinois University | ||||||
| 6 | Inner City Studies Education Program; and
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| 7 | WHEREAS, Robert Starks was born on January 24, 1944, in | ||||||
| 8 | Grenada, Mississippi; and
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| 9 | WHEREAS, Robert Starks earned his bachelor's degree in | ||||||
| 10 | political science from Loyola University in Chicago in June of | ||||||
| 11 | 1968 and his master's degree in urban studies from Loyola | ||||||
| 12 | University in June of 1971; in 1971, he began working toward | ||||||
| 13 | his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Chicago; | ||||||
| 14 | and
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| 15 | WHEREAS, Robert Starks was employed as a research | ||||||
| 16 | specialist at the Chicago Urban League from 1967 to 1970; he | ||||||
| 17 | also worked as a management consultant at Booz-Allen and | ||||||
| 18 | Hamilton, Inc. in Chicago from 1968 to 1969 and has served as a | ||||||
| 19 | political columnist and political editor at the N'DIGO | ||||||
| 20 | Newspaper since 1991; and
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| 21 | WHEREAS, Robert Starks began his career in higher education | ||||||
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| 1 | as director of Black Studies Program and instructor in the | ||||||
| 2 | Political Science Department at Northern Illinois University | ||||||
| 3 | in DeKalb in 1970; in 1972, he became an instructor at the | ||||||
| 4 | Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) Department of Inner | ||||||
| 5 | City Studies; in 1976, he became a tenured assistant professor | ||||||
| 6 | with the NEIU Department of Inner City Studies; in 1982, he | ||||||
| 7 | became an associate professor with the NEIU Department of | ||||||
| 8 | Educational Leadership and Development's Inner City Studies | ||||||
| 9 | Education Program; in 1999, he was the Founder, Grantsman, and | ||||||
| 10 | Director of the Harold Washington Institute for Research and | ||||||
| 11 | Policy Studies' Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies; and
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| 12 | WHEREAS, Robert Starks and his wife, Judith A. Starks, have | ||||||
| 13 | 2 children, Kenya Miriama and Robert Willis; and
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| 14 | WHEREAS, Robert Starks serves as a model of hard work, | ||||||
| 15 | integrity, and dedication for the people of the State of | ||||||
| 16 | Illinois; therefore, be it
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| 17 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 18 | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
| 19 | we congratulate Robert Starks on the occasion of his | ||||||
| 20 | retirement, thank him for his many years of dedicated service | ||||||
| 21 | in higher education, and wish him many happy and healthy | ||||||
| 22 | retirement years; and be it further
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| 1 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 2 | presented to Robert Starks as a symbol of our esteem and | ||||||
| 3 | respect.
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