[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 148 (Friday, November 15, 2002)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2064]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            HOUSE RESOLUTION FOR 2002 PROFESSORS OF THE YEAR

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                            HON. TIM ROEMER

                               of indiana

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, November 14, 2002

  Mr. ROEMER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor four distinguished 
people who deserve to be recognized and applauded for their unfailing 
contribution to higher learning.
  These four outstanding professors are being honored by the Carnegie 
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for 
Advancement and Support of Education.
  Mr. Speaker, one of these distinguished individuals hails from my 
home district in Indiana. Professor Dennis Jacobs has received the 
award for Outstanding Research and Doctoral University Professor of the 
Year.
  As a professor of chemistry at the University of Notre Dame in South 
Bend, Indiana, he has won several teaching awards and the Presidential 
Award for dedicated service to the university. One prestigious award he 
received was from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of 
Teaching. The foundation named him a Carnegie Scholar in 1999 largely 
for completely redesigning an important introductory chemistry class. 
The redesign led to greater student success and engagement of the 
students, and the course is considered a leading example of the trend 
toward peer-led curricula.
  Professor Jacobs has also combined the fields of chemistry and 
service learning. He created a course in which students and community 
partners evaluate lead contamination in area homes. He is a fellow with 
the Center for Social Concerns where he focuses on other methods of 
integrating community service into the curriculum. One of his 
colleagues has described him as ``the kind of teacher who never stops 
growing, thinking, and changing.'' When community service has become 
essential to America's fabric, it is encouraging to know there are 
still important contributors from such a prestigious university 
contributing to this effort.
  Another outstanding educator to receive this award is Alicia Juarrero 
who is being awarded the Outstanding Community College Professor of the 
Year award. She has been a professor of philosophy since 1975 at Prince 
George's Community College in Largo, Maryland. She has created an 
honors colloquium called ``Minds, Brains, and Machines'' at the 
college. She teaches a philosophy module in the National Endowment for 
The Humanities that uses a college-level humanities course to bring the 
poor out of poverty and into their communities.
  The third distinguished professor from my home state of Indiana is 
James Adams for Outstanding Baccalaureate College Professor of the 
Year. He has served Manchester College in North Manchester, Indiana for 
forty-two years. He has been an exchange professor to Germany and 
Spain, and was instrumental in creating study-abroad programs on his 
campus.
  Finally, another renowned professor being honored is Francisco 
Jimenez for Outstanding Master's University and College Professor of 
the Year. He is the Faye Boyle Professor in the Department of Modem 
Languages and Literatures at Santa Clara University and is the director 
of the university's Ethnic Studies Program. He has taught at Santa 
Clara University since 1973 where he has garnered teaching awards as 
well as honors for publication and special service to the campus and 
community.
  He has also created an outreach program with a local high school 
called the Eastside Future Teachers Project to encourage historically 
under-represented students to become teachers.
  Mr. Speaker, I commend these four professors for their incredible 
contribution to the world's most important profession: teaching. They 
have set an example which all educators should be proud to follow.

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