UIS faculty and staff:

Campus Senate will be conducting a search in the Spring for a permanent Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs and Provost. If you are interested in serving on the search committee for this position please submit your interest to campussenate@uis.edu by 4 p.m. on January 3, 2023.

Sara Powell
Office Administrator, Campus Senate
University of Illinois Springfield
1 University Plaza
MS PAC 383
Springfield, IL 62703
Phone: (217) 206-6664

Greetings! Here are some important updates and announcements from the UIS Office of Human Resources: 

Holiday Celebrations

While there will be no campus-wide holiday party this year, departments are encouraged to individually celebrate the season and recognize the hard work and commitment of UIS employees. We look forward to celebrating with everyone in May at the 2nd Annual End of the Academic Year Party.  Details forthcoming this spring.

Holiday Cookie Decorating in the Student Union on December 14

Students, Faculty, and Staff,

The restrooms on the first floor of Brookens Library have been closed due to a sewage system failure. The primary and backup sewage pumps failed unexpectedly this afternoon. F&S is working diligently on repairs but restoration of the system may not be completed until early next week.

Every effort will be made to keep the outage as brief as possible.

We sincerely appreciate your patience. Please feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions or concerns.

Thank you,

December 8, 2022

This is a general reminder to all faculty and staff: please review and, if necessary, update your Mailing Address on file with the University of Illinois System for benefits and/or tax purposes.

AITS offers training sessions and 1-on-1 report assistance with our data experts. To register or to see the complete schedule, please visit the Training Registration Application. If a session is full, please click the Wait List link to be added to our wait list.

We are pleased to offer the following sessions (click the title for details):

This is a reminder that the deprecated WordPress site, stored on a backup server with ITS, will be decommissioned after December 22, 2022, and will no longer be accessible. 

If you have not already done so, please review your website content on the new site. If you find missing content from the old WordPress site, please email webservices@uis.edu to let us know immediately, so we can assist.

We appreciate your assistance reviewing and updating the website.

Join us on December 13 from 5 to 7 p.m. for cookies and hot cocoa or a festive cocktail! Meet at the main lobby concession stand to receive your all access pass to the holiday festivities!

Enjoy a backstage tour and stop by the UIS Ticket Office to do a little holiday shopping for loved ones. Gift certificates will be available as well as special ticket prices only available during the Open House!

Multiple drawings for door prizes will include:

What does this mean?

On December 13, 2022, UIS will be implementing 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) to better protect both you and the university from unauthorized access to your personal data stored in the university's enterprise systems. UIS will be requiring a second layer of security to access your University account making it difficult for an unauthorized person to access your information. 2FA provides better account protection than merely using a password.

On December 6 at approximately 10 a.m., the UIS Police Department will be conducting a test of the Rave text message system in conjunction with the monthly tornado siren test. We will follow up the test with a brief survey (no longer than 12 questions) to help evaluate the effectiveness of the tornado sirens and the Rave text message system. We would appreciate your participation to help identify areas we need to improve.

UIS Police Department

Phone: (217)206-6690

Emergency: (217)206-7777

TTY: (217)206-7510

On Sunday, December 4 from 6:00 am - 6:00 pm, Administrative Information Technology Services (AITS) will be performing mandatory quarterly maintenance on all production Solaris and Linux servers. This maintenance necessitates Banner and related applications to be unavailable during this timeframe.