Giving Opportunities
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Loichle Family Foundation Fellowship
On February 21, 2001, Lee and Jan Loichle traveled to campus to surprise ILIR Professor Emeritus Martin Wagner with the announcement that they were endowing a fellowship at the Institute in his honor.
The Loichle Family Foundation Fellowship in honor of Martin Wagner provides a fellowship for ILIR students with outstanding undergraduate achievement who have expressed and interest in union relations as well as the organizational behavior side of human resources.
The inaugural fellowship was awarded in the fall of 2001 to Charles Fields III, an honor student in business administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His undergraduate studies included a course titled Labor Problems and he held a research assistantship that included research collecting data on labor disputes.
"The faculty at the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations provided me an outstanding academic foundation for my 27 year career in Human Resources at the Ford Motor Company. In that spirit, Jan and I are pleased to honor Martin Wagner through the Loichle Family Fellowship. The Fellowship recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding academic achievement and have expressed career interest in all aspects of Human Resources, including Union Relations."
Lee retired in December after 27 years in the Human Resources organization at Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI. His last position was Global Personnel Planning Manager, which included responsibility for global employee development, performance management and executive search. Lee has an undergraduate degree from Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, and a master's degree from the Institute.
