The University of Illinois Board of Trustees honored Urbana-Champaign Chancellor Robert Jones today with a resolution in recognition of Jones’ stellar service. Jones is departing June 30 to take the helm as president of the University of Washington.
“Our University of Illinois family holds great fondness for your dedicated service and unwavering commitment to the values of our institution,” the resolution stated. “As you embark on another great opportunity to lead in educating the next generation, know that in our hearts we will always consider you a true Illini.”
During the board meeting, Jones recounted impressive achievements that occurred during his time as chancellor, including record enrollments, faculty recruitment and retention, affordability, managing the COVID-19 pandemic, record-setting research expenditures and launching the Carle Illinois College of Medicine.
The board also installed its newest member, Trustee Bryan Traubert, who practiced ophthalmology in Chicago for more than 30 years and is chairman of the Pritzker Traubert Foundation and chair of the Executive Committee of the Chicago Community Trust. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Medicine.
The board recognized the three student trustees—two of whom will return for another term in July—along with the outgoing student trustee and the newly elected student representative.
Reelected by the student bodies at their respective campuses to serve another term were Ariana Mizan, a junior from Champaign majoring in strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship in the Gies College of Business at Urbana-Champaign; and Quinn Basta, a Chicago resident majoring in finance and minoring in real estate and entrepreneurship at the University of Illinois Chicago.
Joe Humphrey, a sophomore majoring in biology who grew up in Springfield, is the newly elected student trustee from the University of Illinois Springfield. The incumbent UIS student trustee, Christian Johnson—a major in information systems security with a minor in computer science and management—did not seek another term and was thanked by the board for his service.
The board also approved the five-year reappointment of chief internal auditor Julie A. Zemaitis, who serves as executive director of the Office of University Audits, a position she has held since 2005. State law requires the chief executive officer of each state university to appoint a chief internal auditor every five years.
