UIS Campus Senate will meet on Friday, April 21, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM in PAC C/D.
The 2022-2023 Senate and the 2023-2024 Senate will meet sequentially. The agenda for the 2022-2023 Senate can be found here: https://uofi.box.com/s/t0t2lntoks30iaeoh4nfss17hr9xobif. The agenda for the 2023-2024 Senate can be found here: https://uofi.box.com/s/jhfwakkoi8adjq2cxp79s0zhwoeknimu.
Dear Faculty and Staff —
There's less than one month until Commencement!
For your situational awareness, the 2023 Commencement Committee wanted to share an update regarding a previous email that was sent out to students about important Commencement information. To view this email announcement on the UIS website, please click here.
Facilities & Services is committed to supporting and maintaining our campus and its community. Our skilled crews are equipped to handle a wide range of tasks, from repairing and maintaining buildings and grounds to providing cleaning services, moving assistance, and surplus support.
We are gearing up for the Take Your Child to Work Day event on April 27, 2023, and we still have spots available! Please sign up here to register your child for this event, but don’t delay. Sign up closes on April 14!
UIS Office of Human Resources
It’s Annual Evaluation Season for Academic Professional and Civil Service employees. Human Resources will be holding an Information Session via Zoom this Friday, April 14 from 2-3 p.m. to walk through how to use the new online Annual Evaluation form, to discuss the evaluation process and to answer any questions you may have. This session is open to supervisors and employees.
You can find the Zoom link here:
Information Technology Services will be shutting down the UIS Skype for Business server on Monday, April 17. Microsoft has been migrating Skype for Business functionality to Microsoft Teams and plans to no longer support Skype for Business.
Please note that this has no impact on Skype; Skype for Business is a separate service.
If you would like additional training on Zoom or Microsoft Teams, please reach out to ITS Client Services.
Greetings! Here are some important updates and announcements from the UIS Office of Human Resources:
Annual Evaluations
The University of Illinois Springfield Office of the Provost, in conjunction with the Campus Senate Committee on the Assessment of Student Learning, is pleased to announce that five faculty projects will be receiving program assessment grants for the 2023-2024 academic year. This grant program, which is in its inaugural year, is designed to promote best practices in program-level assessment of student learning outcomes.
Two University of Illinois Springfield employees were honored with Chancellor’s awards recognizing academic professional and civil service excellence during a ceremony in the Student Union Ballroom on Wednesday, April 5, 2023.
WHAT: The University of Illinois Springfield and Innovate Springfield will host Doug Hamilton, head of artificial intelligence (AI) research at Nasdaq and a UIS alum, for a keynote speech on “The Current State of AI.” His speech will be followed by a panel discussion on the topic with UIS and outside experts.
WHEN: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Thursday, April 13, 2023
WHERE: UIS Student Union Ballroom, 2251 Richard Wright Dr., Springfield