IV 

107TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 616

Recognizing the 2002 United States Professors of the Year. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

NOVEMBER 14, 2002

Mr. ROEMER (for himself, Mr. WYNN, Mr. HONDA, and Mr. BUYER) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 

Education and the Workforce 

RESOLUTION

Recognizing the 2002 United States Professors of the Year.

Whereas the United States Professors of the Year are being 

recognized for their unique teaching experiences and 

strategies by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and 

Support of Education, and will be presented these awards 

in the following four categories: Community College, Baccalaureate College, Master’s University or College, and 

Research and Doctoral University; 

Whereas the first professor being honored is Alicia Juarrero 

for the Outstanding Community College Professor of the 

Year award, who is a professor of philosophy at Prince 

George’s Community College, has taught at the Largo, 

Maryland, institution since 1975, has created an honors 

colloquium called ‘‘Minds, Brains, and Machines’’ at the 
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college, 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 

the full life of their communities; 

Whereas the second professor being honored is James Adams 

for Outstanding Baccalaureate College Professor of the 

Year, who has served Manchester College in North Manchester, Indiana, for 42 years, has been an exchange professor to Germany and Spain, and was instrumental in 

creating study-abroad programs on his campus; 

Whereas the third professor being honored is Francisco Jimenez for Outstanding Master’s University and College 

Professor of the Year, who is the Faye Boyle Professor 

in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures 

at Santa Clara University, is the director of the university’s Ethnic Studies Program, has taught at Santa Clara 

University since 1973, has garnered teaching awards as 

well as honors for publication and special service to the 

campus and community, his teaching and writing having 

been framed by his experiences as the child of Mexican 

migrant farm workers, is the author of two award-winning books about his childhood, and has also created an 

outreach program to encourage historically under-represented students to become teachers; and 

Whereas the final professor being honored is Dennis Jacobs 

for Outstanding Research and Doctoral University Professor of the Year, who serves as a professor at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, is a professor of chemistry, was named the Carnegie Scholar in 

1999 by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement 

of Teaching, has combined chemistry and service learning 

by creating a course in which students and community 
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partners evaluate lead contamination in area homes, and 

is a fellow with the Center for Social Concerns focusing 

on methods of integrating community service into the 

curriculum: Now, therefore, be it

1 Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep2 resentatives that these four professors should be recog3 nized as the United States Professors of the Year on be4 half of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of 

5 Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support 

6 of Education.

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