By The Beachwood Ann Marie Affairs Desk
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From: “Robert J. Zimmer”<president@uchicago.edu> Date: September 8, 2008 9:31:50 AM CDT
To: “‘university-community@bulkmail.uchicago.edu'”
Subject: Vice President for Civic Engagement
Reply-To: president@uchicago.edu
To: University Community
From: Robert J. Zimmer
Date: September 8, 2008
Re: Vice President for Civic Engagement
I am very pleased to announce that Ann Marie Lipinski, former editor of the Chicago Tribune, has accepted the position of Vice President for Civic Engagement at the University. She will begin her new position on October 1.</president@uchicago.edu>
In this newly defined role, Ann Marie will lead in developing and representing the relationship of the University of Chicago with the City of Chicago, its multiple communities, and its extended region. The relationships of the University to the City of Chicago have great potential to enrich our fundamental missions of research and education, while simultaneously enhancing the quality of life in the City, its economic development, and its global reach. Our goal is to see the University of Chicago become a model of how a great urban research university can interact in partnership with its city, and Ann Marie, who has a strong track record leading one of Chicago’s great institutions, will provide strong leadership in helping us to build upon our already significant achievements.
More specifically, as the Vice President for Civic Engagement, Ann Marie is charged with advancing, coordinating, and articulating the University’s ambitious efforts in pre-K-12 education, community health, local economic growth, business and job creation, business diversity, real estate development, social services, programs for children at risk, student volunteer activities, safety and security, and research efforts connected to the City and its communities. She will oversee the University’s multi-faceted relationships with South Side communities, elected officials, and community leaders, and will develop our relationship with the State of Illinois. In January 2009, she will become chair of the board of the University of Chicago Charter School, which opened its fourth campus earlier this month.
In addition to her administrative responsibilities, Ann Marie will be appointed as a senior lecturer in the College, teaching material related to policy and journalism.
Ann Marie will work to share our innovative activities of civic engagement with peer institutions around the nation, and in turn learn from those universities’ efforts. In addition, she will develop the connection between the University’s evolving international efforts and the City of Chicago’s emerging status as a global city.
Under Ann Marie’s stewardship as managing editor and editor, the Chicago Tribune became a leader in journalism and public service, with Pulitzer Prize-winning projects that freed innocent prisoners from death row, helped revitalize the South Side lakefront, and uncovered product defects that endangered children.
Ann Marie, who has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, began at the Tribune as a summer intern. She rose to become the paper’s top news executive, guiding more than 700 employees at the Midwest’s leading media institution. She was one of three Tribune reporters awarded a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1988. As editor, she sharpened the Tribune’s public service mission and led the paper to Pulitzer Prizes in international reporting, feature writing, explanatory reporting, editorial writing, and investigative reporting.
As part of the newspaper’s efforts to promote literacy and literature, Ann Marie oversaw a series of awards promoting fiction and non-fiction work that underscored Chicago’s historic contributions to American letters. As editor, she created the Tribune’s Young Adult Book Prize and the Tribune Literary Prize, bringing to Chicago such luminaries as Arthur Miller, August Wilson, Tom Wolfe, Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates, and E.L. Doctorow.
A 30-year resident of Chicago, Ann Marie and her family have lived in the Kenwood neighborhood for the past five years. She serves on the boards of the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and the Chicago Children’s Choir, along with the Pulitzer Prize Board and other national organizations.
Please join me in welcoming Ann Marie Lipinski to her new role in the University of Chicago community.
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Posted on September 8, 2008