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New chairman of IBHE announced
Gov. Rod Blagojevich has appointed James Kaplan to Chairman of the Illinois Board of Higher Education. He succeeds Steven Lesnik, who held the post for the past year. Kaplan, a long-time advocate for students with disabilities, has served on the board since July 1999.
He earned a bachelor‚s degree in history at the University of Arizona and his law degree from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law. Kaplan is also past chairman of the Illinois State Advisory Council on the Education of Children With Disabilities.
