Springfest 2025 is just around the corner, and we need judges to help make this long-standing UIS tradition a success! Running from April 21st–26th, Springfest brings together students, faculty, staff, and alumni for a week of friendly competition and campus spirit.
Judges play a key role in scoring competitions, ensuring fair play, and keeping the excitement going. Sign-ups are open now through April 15th—we welcome faculty, staff, students, and alumni to participate!
Thanks to campus and system-level financial support, ITS is in the process of implementing a campus-wide infrastructure refresh as part of our efforts to improve Wi-Fi performance. This is a multi-phase project with an expected projected completion date of August 2025.
During the week of April 7, we will be upgrading the Public Affairs Center, Foxglove, and Marigold.
During the transition for each building, laptops, tablets, and phones should automatically switch to the new Wi-Fi after a possible brief interruption in service.
Greetings, Campus Community:
A critical plumbing repair will be performed the week of April 7 on the first floor of PAC. Work is scheduled to begin on Tuesday, April 8 and wrap up on Friday, April 11. If that schedule changes, we will send out an update.
Water will be shutoff for all restrooms, sinks, and fountains in the following areas:
The Office of Undergraduate Education is accepting ECCE Speaker Series proposals for events that will take place during the Fall 2025 semester.
The deadline for Fall 2025 event proposals is Monday, April 14 at 5 PM.
The proposal form and instructions are included below
The Division of Advancement is seeking projects to consider for awarding one-time (non-reoccurring) money from the UIS Fund. Throughout the year, UIS alumni, employees and friends make contributions to the UIS Fund,&nb
Greetings,
The Annual Evaluation Process for Academic Professional and Civil Service employees has begun! Human Resources is pleased to present an updated electronic version of the Annual Performance Evaluation to be used as of April 1, 2025. Here are the changes we made this year to the structure, rankings, and functionality:
Dear faculty,
As planning begins for the Summer and Fall 2025 semesters, Information Technology Services and Classroom Scheduling Services would like to know your requests for classrooms and instructional technology services for the courses you will be teaching.
The ID Center will have the following special hours:
Greetings, Campus Community:
We are writing to inform you that the Tower 1 elevator in the Public Affairs Center (PAC) will be out of service indefinitely. We are currently awaiting the delivery of critical parts needed to complete the repairs necessary to restore elevator operation.
At this time, we do not have a firm timeline for the parts delivery and subsequent repair, but we will share a status update when we do.
We sincerely appreciate your patience and understanding as we work to repair and maintain our critical infrastructure.
Dear UIS Faculty Members:
The Senate Committee on the Library invites you to participate in a brief survey designed to better understand how faculty use, value, and evaluate library resources. Your insights are vital in helping us improve and tailor library services to better support your teaching, research, and professional needs.
The survey will take approximately 5–10 minutes to complete and will remain open until midnight on April 16th.