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) sub-
mitted 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 Advance-
ment of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and 
Support of Education, and will be presented these awards 
in the following four categories: Community College, Bac-
calaureate 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 En-
dowment for the Humanities that uses a college-level hu-
manities 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 Man-
chester, Indiana, for 42 years, has been an exchange pro-
fessor to Germany and Spain, and was instrumental in 
creating study-abroad programs on his campus; 
Whereas the third professor being honored is Francisco Ji-
menez 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 univer-
sity’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-win-
ning books about his childhood, and has also created an 
outreach program to encourage historically under-rep-
resented students to become teachers; and 
Whereas the final professor being honored is Dennis Jacobs 
for Outstanding Research and Doctoral University Pro-
fessor of the Year, who serves as a professor at the Uni-
versity of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, is a pro-
fessor 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
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that these four professors should be recog-
nized as the United States Professors of the Year on be-
half of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of 
Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support 
of Education.
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