Get Your Flu Shot at UIS this Fall
Cybersecurity Awareness Month October 2022: See Yourself in Cybersecurity
We all play a role in each day in our own security. We put on a seatbelt or lock a door. We play a similar role in our digital and online security: we can take actions that improve it and reduce risks.
This October we encourage you to take steps that raise your awareness of cybersecurity in all your roles at the university and beyond. We're focusing on Phishing: how to identify it, report it, and protect yourself against it.
Cox Children's Center, Volunteer and Civic Engagement Center Trunk or Treat Sign Up
The Cox Children’s Center and the Volunteer and Civic Engagement Center encourage your participation in our annual Trunk or Treat for Canned Goods campus event. Sign up (either as an individual or as a department) to decorate a vehicle. Use your creativity! This can be a car, truck, golf cart, wagon….you name it!
Open Photo Studio Sessions
The Office of Campus Relations will be hosting two Open Photo Studio sessions for Fall 2022 for all staff or faculty. These can be used for university purposes such as department websites, campus directory, speaking engagements at conference, etc. Any staff or faculty member who either hasn’t had their portrait taken or would like another, more recent, portrait taken are encouraged to attend.
The Campus Relations studio is in the Business Services Building, Room 95 (BSB 95).
The open studio sessions will be:
Annual Faculty and Staff Ethics Training Email: ACTION REQUIRED
As a University of Illinois employee, you are required to complete ethics training on an annual basis.
Newsletter capability now available
The Office of Web Service (OWS) has developed the functionality to create mailing lists, add a subscription sign-up form to your site, and send newsletters of your units most recent articles to your mailing list subscribers.
Mailing Lists
Mailing lists can be imported into the site or a new mailing list can be created to store subscribers.
Subscribe to Newsletter Form
Once a mailing list is created, a Mailing List Subscription block can be added to a page(s) to provide the option for new subscribers to sign up.
Office of Human Resources Updates and Announcements
Open Forum on JDXpert and Cornerstone
Human Resources will be holding an open forum via Zoom to answer questions related to JDXpert and Cornerstone. The session will be held on Wednesday, September 21st from 9 -10 a.m. Department users involved in submitting position requests or changes are encouraged to attend. The session will be recorded and available on the Human Resources website.
Please use this link to attend the session: https://uis.zoom.us/j/84361176748?pwd=a3Rzek1GaVpkcFlNVVZDSHdDbGJpZz09
Pageviews hit highest numbers since 2013
Since finalizing the migration of the uis.edu website from WordPress to Drupal, the website numbers have continued to improve. The numbers for August continue that trend, hitting a record high since site launch of over 1.1M pageviews. That is the highest number of pageviews we have received in August since 2013! The bounce rate is also still trending low at 1.93%.