End of Academic Year Party

We are excited to announce that the theme for the 2024 End of Academic Year Party will be Decades! We encourage you and your colleagues to embrace your favorite decade and join us as we celebrate the end of another academic year at UIS. Costumes are permitted to add an extra flair to the celebration. Prizes will be given for best costumes! If dressing up isn’t your style, come as you are and join us for activities, some good tunes, and even better food!

Open Lab/Exploratory Session for Copyleaks: AI Plagiarism and AI Content Detection

We are thrilled to have 15 faculty and instructors participating in the Copyleaks pilot, running from April 1-21. As part of this pilot project, COLRS and ITS are offering an open lab/exploratory session for anyone interested in learning more about Copyleaks and seeing it in action - this opportunity is open to everyone, regardless of participation in the pilot. Please join us:

Friday, April 12 from 11am-Noon in UHB 2029 or via Zoom.  

Culturally Responsive Teaching and Trauma-Informed Pedagogy - CSIL/CFE

Culturally Responsive Teaching and Trauma-Informed Pedagogy

Join colleagues across central Illinois along with presenters Justin and Heather from ICC as they explore the intersection of culturally responsive teaching and trauma-informed pedagogy. We will discuss how to teach from an awareness of relational dynamics that motivates all students' learning. Our work focuses on applying this understanding to students with experiences of marginalization.

Presenters: 

2024 Assurance of Student Learning Day

Save the Date - April 9, 2024 - Assurance of Student Learning Day

Presented by the Committee for the Assurance of Student Learning (CASL)

Sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Center for Faculty Excellence

Hear about 2023 Program Assessment grant projects from your colleagues.

Program Agenda

1:30pm: Opening Remarks (from CASL Chair Junfeng Wang)

1:35pm: UIS Degree Program Review and Assessment Grant Project Reports