Foot in the Door Fair
Join us for the 2020 Online Virtual Foot in the Door (FITD) Fair being held on Thursday, August 27th from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. via the UIS CareerConnect system. (Student CareerConnect Link & Employer CareerConnect Link)
Resume Mania
The Career Development Center staff will be providing two action-packed days of targeted resume development and critiques, as well as professional guidance on how to prepare for the Foot in the Door (FITD) Fair. Need resume help? Not sure how to prepare for the Foot in the Door (FITD) Fair? Drop-in during the Career Development Center's Resume Mania to:
LIVE ZOOM: UIS Gender & Sexuality Student Services: Drag Queen Bingo
Gender and Sexuality Student Services presents virtual Drag Queen Bingo featuring special guest hosts Sara-Belle Knight and Mahogany Knight! Join us online (Zoom Link: Go.UIS.EDU/DragQueenBingo) for an evening of live entertainment and fun with the humor and sass of a drag show and the excitement of bingo. Giveaways include progress pride flags. Play to win prizes including an Amazon Echo, Starbucks gift certificates, award winning LGBTQ fiction, and more! YOU HAVE TO REGISTER IN ADVANCE TO RECEIVE YOUR FREE BINGO CARDS!
Crafts & Paths 2020
Ready for some DIY fun? The Career Development Center will guide you through making a no-sew pillow and show you an online resource that can help guide your career path. Both the pillow kit (we have 6 different options) and the online resource are FREE. But we have a limited number of pillow kits, so get yours ASAP!
UIS Good as Gold awards honor more than 50 local volunteers, businesses and organizations
The University of Illinois Springfield, Junior League of Springfield and the United Way of Central Illinois honored more than 50 Sangamon County volunteers and businesses during the virtual 12th annual Good as Gold Ceremony. The winners were announced in a video released Monday on the UIS Volunteer and Civic Engagement Center’s website.
Record number of Illinois higher education professors and K-12 teachers take UIS course on teaching online
The University of Illinois Springfield ION Professional eLearning Program’s Overview of Online Instruction course has seen a large jump in enrollment, as more Illinois higher education professors and K-12 teachers are wanting to learn how to better teach online during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Course enrollment jumped from 793 students in 2019 to 1,819 students so far in 2020. Just recently, 1,153 students completed the course during the April to July term.
UIS awarded a state grant to increase paid internship opportunities for students
The University of Illinois Springfield’s Office of Engaged Learning has been awarded a nearly $45,000 Illinois Cooperative Work Study Program grant to increase the number of paid internship opportunities available to students completing academic internships through the UIS Internships and Prior Learning Program.
UIS requires saliva-based COVID-19 testing for on-campus students, faculty and staff
University of Illinois Springfield students, faculty and staff living, working or taking classes on-campus are required to participate in free saliva-based COVID-19 testing once a week during Fall Semester 2020.
The saliva-based Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test was developed by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The test can detect the virus in people who are asymptomatic and/or individuals early in the course of disease.
Test results are expected within the same day and should not exceed 48 hours, excluding weekends and holidays.
Downtown Springfield business incubator joins UIS becomes first hub of Illinois Innovation Network
Innovate Springfield, a downtown Springfield innovation and business incubator, has become part of the University of Illinois Springfield (UIS) under an agreement aimed at expanding economic growth, entrepreneurship opportunities and social progress in the capital city, Chancellor Susan Koch announced today.