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PUBLICATIONS
Inside
Illinois
Vol.
20, No. 19, May 3, 2001
New chancellor visits with campus
and community
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Photo
by Bill Wiegand
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welcome Nancy
Cantor, the next chancellor of the Urbana campus, addresses
the crowd at the Illini Union's South Lounge April 24. Hundreds
came to greet her at a reception held in her honor. |
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Nancy Cantor, the
next chancellor of the UI, visited with campus and community members
at a reception in her honor April 24 in the Illini Union’s South
Lounge. It was her first visit to Champaign-Urbana since the announcement
of her appointment the previous week. She was joined by her husband,
Steve Brechin, an environmental sociologist.
Cantor, who is currently provost at the University of Michigan, will
become chancellor in August, pending approval by the UI Board of Trustees
later this month. Chancellor Michael Aiken, who has held the post since
1993, will retire Aug. 20.
Hundreds of administrators, faculty and staff members and students as
well as community leaders crowded into the South Lounge during the reception
to meet Cantor.
During her remarks she promised to do lots of visiting across campus.
"I hope you won’t mind when I show up in your offices,"
she said. "I grew up in New York City. I love to walk."
She also said she hopes to have regular contact with students, and referred
to the "fireside chats" she began at Michigan.
When asked about controversial issues such as Chief Iliniwek, Cantor
said, "We don’t turn away from things that are hard to face.
"On truly complex issues … reasonable people will have different
views," she said. "We’ve got to remind ourselves that
we are one community.
"At the end of the day, the board or others will make the decision
… but it’s critical that we feel the campus has really talked,"
Cantor said.
Her two-day trip to Champaign-Urbana included a busy campus itinerary
as well as time for looking for a house and schools for her two children.
Cantor will be the seventh chancellor for the Urbana campus since the
system began in 1967 and the campus’s first female chancellor.
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