Ex-UI dean ready for bigger challenge at Chicago campus

After Michigan stop, Allen-Meares returns to UI – this time in Chicago

The former dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign assumed the top post at Chicago's largest university Friday.

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