Harry and Deborah Berman have been committed to academic endeavors their entire working lives. After many years as a professor and administrator at UIS (then Sangamon State University), Dr. Harry Berman was named Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs in 2005, and in 2010, he was named Interim Chancellor. Currently, Dr. Berman is interim executive director of the Illinois Board of Higher Education. Deborah Berman served for nearly 30 years in a variety of central administrative positions at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield prior to her retirement in 2011. In addition to two degrees from Washington University in St. Louis, Deborah Berman completed graduate work in Management Information Systems at UIS. Through the Berman Scholarship, they hope to provide access for worthy students to further their education.