The University Equity Plan ad hoc committee is charged with developing a comprehensive plan to "close gaps in enrollment, retention, completion, and student loan repayment rates for underrepresented groups" under Public Act 102-1046 (House Bill 5464). The following individuals have agreed to serve for Fall 2022:

Associate Vice Chancellors:

• Shawn Boyne, AVC Undergraduate Education
• Vickie Cook, AVC Enrollment, Online, Professional and Engaged Learning
• Cecilia Cornell, AVC Graduate Education

Associate Deans

• Travis Bland, PAE
• Tena Helton, LASS
• Jorge Villegas, CBM
• TBD, HST

Faculty

• Shipra Gupta, CBM
• Xiang Huang, HST
• Hinda Seif, LASS
• Isabel Skinner, PAE

Staff/Admin

• Destiney Boyd, Advising
• Mark Dochterman, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Engagement
• Laura Dorman, Director of Institutional Research
• Jantzen Eddington, Dean of Students
• Ella Lawrence, Financial Aid

2022.8.30

The Task Force on Underrepresented Faculty Recruitment & Retention was charged with developing recommendations on faculty recruitment and hiring and presenting them to the Provost by May 15, 2022.

UIS has a record of hiring and retaining underrepresented faculty that is quite reflective of public institutions of higher education nationally – somewhere between 7-8% of the total faculty. Examination of institutional data reveals that the highest percentage of African-American and Hispanic faculty at UIS occurred in 2012, with 4.7% and 3.7% of the faculty respectively (8.4% total). Interestingly, UIS reported the greatest percentage of white faculty in 2013 at 75.7%.  The percentage of white faculty at UIS was lowest in 2020 at 66.8%, with the second lowest percentage reported in 2021 at 69.2%. With these data in mind, it is time for UIS to convene a Task Force on Faculty Recruitment and Retention to identify recommendations aimed at promoting greater institutional success in recruiting and retaining all faculty, particularly those faculty from underrepresented groups.

To achieve these outcomes we are creating a Task Force on Faculty Recruitment and Retention that is charged with developing recommendations on faculty recruitment and hiring and presenting them to the Provost by the end of the present academic year (May, 15, 2022). The following membership is proposed for the Faculty Recruitment Task Force:

• Assistant Director, Office of Access & Equity, Shelby Bedford (Co-Chair)
• 2 Faculty Members – CBM,  Ranjan Karri, Jorge Villegas
• 1 Faculty Member – CEHS, Kay McChesney
• 2 Faculty Members – CLAS, Miranda Andrews, Meg Cass (Co-Chair)
• 2 Faculty Members – CPAA, Junfeng Wang, Daniel Platt
• 1 Faculty Member – Library, Sally LaJoie
• 1 Dean, Lan Dong
• 1 Associate Vice Chancellor, Lucia Vasquez
• Assistant Provost Academic Human Resources, Natalie Taylor

View the DEI Town Hall September 16 presentation

Read the Action Plans for URFRR recommendations

URFRR Task Force recommendations

Link to the task force report and read about action plans

2022.9.16

The ad hoc Academic Reorganization Advisory Committee (ARAC) was convened by Provost Dennis Papini in 2020 to review white paper proposals and provide advice as he drafts responses to the proposals. The committee has continued its work in AY 21-22 as phase 3 of the academic reorganization moves forward.

ARAC Membership AY 21-22

Faculty members:

• Elham Buxton, CLAS
• Kamau Kemayo, CLAS
• Ann McCaughan, CEHS
• Carolee Rigsbee, CBM
• Megan Styles, CPAA
• Carrie Switzer, CLAS

Deans (ex-officio):

• Som Bhattacharya, CBM
• Lan Dong, CLAS
• Jim Ermatinger, CEHS
• Robert Smith, CPAA

• Dennis Papini, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost (Chair)
• Somnath Bhattacharya, Dean, College of Business and Management
• Vickie Cook, Executive Director, Online, Professional, and Engaged Learning
• Cecilia Cornell, Associate Vice Chancellor for Graduate Education
• James Ermatinger, Interim Dean, College of Education and Human Services
• Marc Klingshirn, Director of CAP Honors
• Michael Lemke, Interim Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
• Amy McEuen, UPI/United Professionals Representative
• Ken Mulliken, Associate Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education
• Tiffany Nielson, Department of Human Development and Counseling
• Pattie Piotrowski, University Librarian and Dean of Library Instructional Services
• Robert Smith, Dean, College of Public Affairs and Administration
• Carrie Switzer, Chair, Department of Psychology
• Tih-Fen Ting, Department of Environmental Studies
• Te-Wei Wang, Department of Management Information Systems

Ex Officio Members:

• Brian Clevenger, Director of Records and Registration
• Chuck Coderko, Associate Chancellor for Administrative Affairs, Facilities & Services
• Kelsea Gurski, Associate Chancellor for Public Affairs
• Natalie Herring, Associate Provost for Enrollment Management
• Jerry Joseph, Associate Provost for Budget and Administrative Planning
• Monica Kroft, Administrative Assistant to the Provost
• Janice Marvel, Director, Facilities Scheduling and Services
• Kara McElwrath, Assistant Director, Client Service, ITS
• Lorie Mick, Program Director, Health Services
• Don Mitchell, Chief of Police
• Mark Owens, Assistant Director, Labor and Employee Relations

Charge

Provost Dennis Papini has established the Budget Model Implementation Committee to follow up on the work of the Budget Process Design Task Force for the Division of Academic Affairs.

1. Develop a budget letter with instructions informing departments how to transmit budget requirements and priorities.
2. Work with ITS to develop an electronic form and web page to capture required fields in a proposal, and work with ITS to ensure the form and web page meet the spirit and specifications of these recommendations.
3. Assist the Associate Provost for Budget and Administrative Planning to authorize an Information Technology Services staff person to access My-UI-Financials for every department in the Division of Academic Affairs.
4. Assist the Associate Vice Chancellor for Research & Institutional Effectiveness to authorize the release of dashboard metrics for publication on the budget model web page.
5. Determine how best to engage deans, department chairs, and department heads to participate in the new budget model.
6. Direct Information Technology Services to publish the various program-level reports of allocations, expenditures, projections, and performance outcomes along with information about the proposals submitted to deans and their status on a web page accessible by the campus community.
7. Engage the Campus Planning and Budget Committee (CPBC) to provide workshops explaining the new budget process to departments early in the fall each year.
8. Identify responsible party to plan and hold budget hearings in February each year.
9. Present to the Provost your recommendations on any remaining issues that will need to be determined prior to implementation.

Members

• Gerard (Jerry) Joseph, Committee Chair
• Donna Haynes
• Ken Kriz
• Kathy Petitte Novak
• Robert W. Smith
• Aaron Stewart
• Mohammed Uddin

10.14.19

Charge

Provost Dennis Papini has established a task force to design a Budget Process for the Division of Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois Springfield.  The task force is charged with:

1. Developing and vetting a proposed budget process model for the Division of Academic Affairs, and provide a recommended model with implementation steps and timeline to Provost Papini no later than July 1, 2019.
2. Developing a budget model within the Division of Academic Affairs that aligns university resources with the strategic plan, incentivizes success as defined by the strategic plan, encourages active management of resources, and provides funds to invest in essential academic initiatives.
3. Ensuring that the budgeting process provides for:

• engagement and effective communication with and between units within the Division of Academic Affairs;
• opportunities for gathering information and feedback from the university community;
• greater transparency of budget process and decision-making using appropriate communication methods (website, briefings, electronic communications, etc.);
• performance of fundamental budget functions including planning for the services the university will provide, setting goals established in the UIS Strategic Compass, managing allocation of resources responsibly, and controlling expenditures to ensure revenues are sufficient to cover outlays.

In FY 21, the Associate Provost for Budget & Administrative Planning will test and refine the new model.

In FY22, the Division of Academic Affairs will fully implement the new model.

Membership

The task force includes fifteen members who represent various university and Division of Academic Affairs stakeholder groups, including deans and the Campus Planning & Budget Committee.  Two of these individuals are ex-officio members of the CPBC and will serve as ex-officio task force members (Papini and Joseph).  Robert Smith (Dean CPAA) and Richard Funderburg (Faculty Member and Chair of CBPC) co-chair the task force. Task force members and their campus affiliations are listed here.

Deans (2)

• Somnath Bhattacharya, College of Business and Management
• Robert Smith, College of Public Affairs and Administration, Co-Chair

Campus Planning & Budget Committee (9)

• Eric Hadley-Ives (EHS
• Yanhui Guo (LAS)
• Mohammed Uddin (CBM)
• Ken Kriz (PAA), Co-Chair
• Tung Nguyen (LAS)
• Stephen McMinn (LIB)
• Aaron Stewart (CS)
• Donna Haynes (AP)
• Rosie Dawoud (SGA)

Additional Members

• Kathy Novak
• David Racine

Ex-Officio (Non-Voting) Members

• Jerry Joseph, Associate Provost for Budget & Administrative Planning
• Dennis Papini, VCAA & Provost

Vision, Goals, and Principles

The success of the task force will be determined by whether the recommended budget process appropriately engages constituents within the Division of Academic Affairs in budget planning and clearly communicates and drives the allocation of resources efficiently and transparently and in a manner that supports the university’s mission and strategic priorities.

Vision

The university operates under an efficient and transparent budgeting system that promotes effective budgetary planning and an entrepreneurial spirit among units. (NOTE: In the context of budgeting, an entrepreneurial spirit seeks to grow the overall size of the pie rather than trying to enlarge your slice of the pie at the expense of the size of others’ slice of the pie.)

Goals

• Enhance management effectiveness and resource generation by placing financial authority, accountability, and risk and rewards at the appropriate level.
• Improve the quality of budget forecasting and financial planning at the division level.
• Support the university’s strategic compass and initiatives.

Principles

• The model achieves its goals as efficiently as possible.
• The Division determines a common set of rules for all units.
• Strong governance and planning mechanisms ensure that financial management informs decisions, but is not an end in itself.
• The implementation of the budget process model adds to organizational satisfaction and value.
• The budget process shapes outcomes that align with the core values of the institution.

Faculty Compensation Review Committee Membership Criteria

Committee membership includes deans, and one faculty member from each college and the library serving staggered three-year terms.

AY 14-15 Faculty Compensation Review Committee Members

Brookens Library

• Jane Treadwell, University Librarian and Dean
• Stephen McMinn, Clinical Assistant Professor/Instructional Services Librarian and Director of Collections and Scholarly Communication (AY 14/15)

College of Business & Management

• Ronald McNeil, Dean
• Atul Agarwal, Associate Professor, Management Information Systems (AY 15/16)

College of Education & Human Services

• Hanfu Mi, Dean
• Cindy Wilson, Associate Professor, Teacher Education (AY 14/15)

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

• James Ermatinger, Dean
• Marcel Yoder, Associate Professor, Psychology (AY 17/18)

College of Public Affairs & Administration

• David Racine, Acting Dean
• Gary Reinbold, Assistant Professor, Public Administration (AY 16/17)

Provost’s Office Resource Staff

• Jerry Joseph, Associate Provost for Budget & Administrative Planning
• Patti Sims, Assistant Provost / Academic HR

• Lynn Pardie, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs & Provost
• Jim Ermatinger, Dean, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
• Clarice Ford, Interim Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
• Jonathan GoldbergBelle, Senior Director, Center for Academic Success and Director, International Programs
• Vacant, Director, International Student Services
• Jerry Joseph, Associate Provost for Budget & Administrative Planning
• Ron McNeil, Dean, College of Business & Management
• Hanfu Mi, Dean, College of Education & Human Services
• Fernando Planas, Director of Admissions
• David Racine, Acting Dean, College of Public Affairs & Administration
• Van Vieregge, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Services

Committee Charge

The International Support Implementation Team (ISIT) is being formed to review the UIS Global Strategy Paper produced by AVCUE Mulliken, forward recommendations to Vice-Chancellors Comerford and Papini, and assist with the creation and implementation of an office that will provide support services, guidance, and a cohesive approach to UIS plans and efforts to recruit, retain, and support international students (and, to a lesser extent, international faculty).

Student Affairs Team Members

• Mark Dochterman, Visiting Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Engagement, Co-Chair
• Ashley Andrews, Resident Director
• Adam Hall, Head Men’s Soccer Coach
• Rick Lane, Director, International Student Services

Academic Affairs Team Members

• Lucia Vazquez, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation, Co-Chair
• Jonathan GoldbergBelle, Director, Study Away Programs
• Rebecca Johnson, Associate Director of Admissions
• Jorge Villegas, Associate Dean, College of Business & Management

Ex-Officio Members:

• Ann Comerford, Interim Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
• Dennis R. Papini, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs & Provost

8.27.2021