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Oct 21, 2025
Greetings,
Between October 20-24, Facilities will begin testing the heating systems in the legacy campus buildings to prepare for the colder months ahead. These tests will primarily take place in the early mornings…
Oct 20, 2025
Dear Campus Community,
As many of you are already aware, Amazon AWS is experiencing a significant outage today. Many of the companies that UIS works with are impacted by the outage, which means that many services…
Oct 20, 2025
Dear Campus Community,
The annual fire drills for this year will be conducted on Thursday November 6th and Friday November 7 for the UIS campus. Please pay special attention to…
Oct 15, 2025
The University of Illinois Springfield has named Robert Mitchell as assistant vice chancellor of Facilities and Services, effective Oct. 16. He will serve in a designate capacity pending formal approval by the…
Mar 23, 2026
3.23.2026
Dear UIS Community:
Last week, UIS hosted the March Board of Trustees meeting. We were thrilled to see the Board vote to approve our proposed Bachelor’s of Applied Science in Engineering Technology, which will support a strong…
Mar 10, 2026
Academic Affairs Colleagues,
I write to provide an update on the Academic Portfolio Review and Prioritization process. From the beginning, the Academic Portfolio Review (APR) was not intended to be a retrospective exercise. It was designed…
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Employee Recognition
Jan 25, 2024
UIS Information Technology Services IT Technical Associate Zach Logsdon has been named the 2023 Employee of the Year at the University of Illinois Springfield. He was honored during a reception on Jan.…
Getting to Know You
Oct 30, 2024
Carissa Isenberg is the program coordinator for the Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation.
Can you give me a brief timeline of how your career led you to UIS?
My undergraduate…
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