In order to build more and stronger relationships with University Circle and Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University has created a new Center for Community Partnerships to be directed by Jacklyn J. Chisholm, the University's newly appointed associate vice president for community partnerships.

Formerly the director of Case's Office for Community Partnerships, Chisholm assumed her new duties this month. She now is responsible for creating a center with internal and external visibility that will facilitate interactions among the University and community groups and institutions in the interest of furthering Case's core missions of education and research.

The center also will develop infrastructure to support Case's activities that serve and interact with the community and will provide a forum for enhancing and allocating resources that promote mutually beneficial relationships.

"Working with the community is a top priority of this University, and the topic of my inaugural symposium in January," said Case President Edward M. Hundert.

"Dr. Chisholm's extraordinary skills and talents are a great gift to the institution. The creation of this center will help us to be more effective and to build more and stronger relationships."

Chisholm will report to Susan B. Shurin, vice president and secretary of the corporation.

"Working with Dr. Chisholm has been an extremely exciting and stimulating experience," Shurin said. "I am simply thrilled at the prospect of what this office will be able to accomplish for Cleveland and Ohio and am honored to be able to participate in the process."

Since March 1993, Chisholm has served as the first director of the Office of Community Relations at Case and has been a key member of the University's Supplier Diversity Initiative Council.

From 1990 to 1993, Chisholm worked in the Office of Minority Programs as its first coordinator of recruitment and placement, where she spearheaded a new retention initiative called the Minority Scholars Program. From 1988 to 1990, Chisholm served as admission counselor and co-coordinator of minority recruitment in Case's Office of Undergraduate Admission.

Chisholm has served on a number of boards, including TRIO Upward Bound/Talent Search, Antioch Development Corporation and the Case Women's Initiative for Leadership and Learning.

She holds three degrees from Case: a bachelor's degree in medical anthropology and a master's degree and doctorate (with an emphasis in educational anthropology) in psychological anthropology.

In the May Corp. Executive Training Program, Chisholm also acquired experience in marketing, budgeting, business forecasting, market research, stock distribution and allocation, vendor negotiations, customer relations and creative problem solving.

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