WHEREAS Dr. Cynthia Dilgard had taught at Millersville University of Pennsylvania since before her retirement in December, at rank of Professor;
WHEREAS for more than a third of her tenure at Millersville University, Dr. Dilgard had also served effectively as chair of the English Department, one of the largest departments at the university;
WHEREAS Dr. Dilgard served with distinction as one of the few women department chairs in the university;
WHEREAS Dr. Dilgard helped to establish the Technical Writing course for the English Department and taught literature to a broad range of students from basic courses in writing to intermediate-level courses to upper-division and graduate courses in Shakespeare, English Romanticism, Victorian Literature, and Drama;
WHEREAS Dr. Dilgard served the community by teaching technical writing courses offered by three Lancaster industries as a service to their employees;
WHEREAS Dr. Dilgard actively promoted the long-needed implementation of positive changes for women's rights at Millersville University through long-standing membership on the Women's Commission and for the initiation of women's studies through membership on the Women's Studies Committee, serving on the Sub-committee on Perspective workshops;
WHEREAS Dr. Dilgard was vitally a part of the forward development of the university as a long-standing member on the Strategic Planning and Resource Committee a key committee having to do with long-rage planning and the deployment of resources, and as a member of the Long-Range Planning Committee;
WHEREAS Dr. Dilgard assisted in the growth of curriculum and academic enrichment programs at Millersville University by her long-term membership on the International Studies Selection Committee and the Academic Forum Committee;
WHEREAS Dr. Dilgard served area schools in curriculum review and as a member of a Review Committee that oversaw the Women's History Month essay contests for secondary schools in the Lancaster Area;
THEREFORE, in recognition of Dr. Dilgard's outstanding work as a professor of writing and literature of her service as English Department Chair, of her service to the Millersville University's curriculum and its long-range planning for institutional growth, and of her service to the Lancaster Area, --its schools an its industries;
BE IT RESOLVED that the English Department of Millersville University of Pennsylvania requests that the honorary title of "Professor of English, Emerita" be granted to Dr. Cynthia C. Dilgard.