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Oct 29, 2025
UIS is a member of the Greater Springfield Chamber of Commerce. RISE Springfield, the young professionals networking group of chamber, is planning their annual Leadership Conference for Tuesday, April 28,…
Oct 29, 2025
Welcome to the COLRS Catch Up! We'd like to start by introducing Melanie Weigel, who is joining us as an Extra Help eLearning Specialist! Melanie holds a Master's degree in Library and Information Science from the UIUC…
Oct 29, 2025
UIS employees showed their generosity and spirit during our SECA Bingo event on Wednesday, Oct. 22, raising $1,116 for Compass for Kids—a record-breaking total and $343 more than last year’s…
Oct 27, 2025
Feeling Ducky? Ready to go duck wild?
Get ready to put your ducktective skills to work with the UIS campus-wide duck hunt! From Monday, October 27, at 8:00 AM through Friday, October 31, at 3:00 PM, the…
Apr 10, 2026
4.10.26
Dear Colleagues —
Dr. Jamarco Clark, vice chancellor for student affairs, has shared that he will be leaving UIS to take on an exciting new opportunity as the next vice president for student affairs for Wichita State University,…
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
Dec 14, 2023
Zach Logsdon has been named the University of Illinois Springfield Employee of the Month for December 2023. He is an IT technical associate for UIS Information Technology Services.
Logsdon played an integral role in…
Getting to Know You
Oct 25, 2024
Jessica Bailey is the institutional scholarship coordinator for the Office of Financial Aid.
How did you get started in your career field?
I was an undergraduate student worker in financial aid at Illinois…
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