Goodbyes | Lunch with Nancy Freitag and Jamie Chriqui
Few professors have lived through an institutional change as significant as those of my colleagues and me at an institution known for 120 years as the John Marshall Law School. In 2019, we became UIC John Marshall Law School, Chicago’s first and only public law school and the 16th college of an R1 university with 34,000 students.
The merger opened up new avenues to collaborate across departments. It also gave faculty from the law school unprecedented access to university level-leadership mentorship opportunities and decision-making. I had the honor and privilege of experiencing both – with the faculty administrator leadership program for two years and, concurrently, with the university promotion and tenure committee for three years.
Grateful for the opportunity to catch up over lunch with Nancy Freitag, who served as Vice-Provost for Faculty Affairs and Jamie Friedman Chriqui, who served as Committee Co-Chair. No one did more than the two of them to make deliberations of the hundreds of candidate applications we received over those three years fair, efficient, and even enjoyable. We have all moved on since. Nancy now serves as Head of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the College of Pharmacy, and Jamie serves as Senior Associate Dean at the School of Public Health. As for me, I look forward to working with my new colleagues both within the law school and across the Penn State community in the next chapter of my career.
