All three schools in the University of Illinois System will see tuition hikes this fall.

The University of Illinois Board of Trustees voted Thursday morning to increase tuition for in-state freshmen.

This is only the second tuition increase in the past eight years.

The University of Illinois Springfield will see a 1.5% tuition hike.

This story appeared on WICS Newschannel 20 on Jan. 20, 2022.

The University of Illinois Springfield Campus Senate introduces new resolution to eliminate its General Education curriculum focusing on issues of diversity and engaged citizenship.

For over a decade now, Engaged Citizenship Common Experience has been a core curriculum of the UIS academic experience.

The ECCE curriculum also comprises Internships and Engagement Experiences, including study abroad/study away programs.

A group of faculty members oppose the resolution and are working to defeat it.

My name is Tatiana Thomas, and I am currently a student at University of Illinois at Springfield for a master of public administration degree with a certificate in labor relations. I work for the Department of Human Services at UIS as a graduate research assistant and recently began to volunteer with the Faith Coalition for Common Good.

(June 2011)

The June 2011 issue of Gemini Focus magazine contains an article written by UIS Assistant Professor John Martin about his use of an infrared camera on the Gemini-South telescope to image the interior of the nebula cocooning the star Eta Carinae. 

Read more about it at the Gemini Focus website

(July 2011)

On July 1 the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced that a collaboration including UIS Assistant Professor John Martin earned a three-year grant for their proposal entitiled “On the Road to the Supernova: LBVs, Hypergiants, and SN Impostors.” The project will continue and expand on Martin’s collarboration with Kris Davison and Roberta Humphreys (both at the University of Minnesota) to study the end stages and instabilities in the most massive stars in the universe.