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On May 6, 1991, after a year of study, the advisory board issued a report in favor of a national museum, and the Smithsonian Board of Regents voted unanimously to support the idea. However, the proposal the regents adopted only called not for a stand-alone institution but a "museum" housed in the East Hall of the existing Arts and Industries ...
[11] [12] [24] Originally titled the Columbian Museum of Chicago in honor of its origins, the Field Museum was incorporated by the State of Illinois on September 16, 1893, for the purpose of the "accumulation and dissemination of knowledge, and the preservation and exhibition of artifacts illustrating art, archaeology, science and history". [25]
Generally speaking, the mayor and city departments comprise the executive branch of the city government, and the city council comprises the legislative branch. [3] However, the mayor does have some formal legislative functions such as being the presiding officer of the council and being able to break tie votes, and informally has dominated legislative activity since the late 19th century.
The 12 candidates in the L.A. Community College District Board of Trustees election include activists, former and current faculty and staff members, and incumbent trustees.
Dolton trustees have hired former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot as a special investigator, to be paid $400 an hour and tasked with probing spending habits of Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard. The ...
Stoddard was previously the president of the University of the State of New York. [18] The University of Illinois Board of Trustees removed him through a vote of no confidence. [19] 11 1953–1955 Lloyd Morey: Morey was an alumnus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and worked in the administration throughout and after his studies. [20]
Trustees at Michigan State University agreed Friday to release documents to the state attorney general related to the school's investigations into now-imprisoned former sports doctor Larry Nassar.
John Henry Rauch was born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania on September 4, 1828. [1] He graduated in medicine from the University of Pennsylvania and settled in Burlington, Iowa.In 1850, on the organization of the Iowa State Medical Society, he was appointed to report on the "Medical and Economic Botany of Iowa", and this report was afterward published (1851).