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Campus dedicates new home for Pre-Law
Center
The UIS Legal Studies Department
celebrated the grand opening of the Pre-Law Center on Oct. 20 with
the dedication of the center’s new home – room 363 of the Public
Affairs Center – and a Fall Forum addressing the question, “Why law
school?”
At a luncheon in the atrium on the
third floor of the PAC, faculty members, administrators and students
signed a facsimile copy of the U.S. Constitution to formally
dedicate the center. Chancellor Richard Ringeisen, who was the first
to sign the Constitution, said that the grand opening marked a
significant point in UIS history.
“I say this often, so much it’s
become a mantra, but we are becoming the best small public liberal
arts university anywhere, with high-quality professional programs,”
Ringeisen said. “And when you’re going to look at that kind of
quality, you need things like a Pre-Law Center.”
The center, according to director
Dennis Rendleman, serves three primary purposes: to provide
information to students interested in a legal career or a
law-related profession, to help students apply to law school and
prepare for the Law School Admission Test (LSAT), and to educate the
campus community about legal issues.
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UIS, LLCC implement new volunteer
program
Springfield Cares
provides a range of volunteer opportunities throughout the state
UIS and
Lincoln Land Community College launched Springfield Cares on
Friday. It is a program that will provide access to a wide range of
volunteer opportunities around the state, LLCC President Jack
Daniels said.
According to Betty McLean, Community Service Placement Coordinator
at UIS and LLCC, Springfield Cares is an episodic volunteer program
of the Community Volunteer Center, in which volunteer agencies from
fifteen Illinois counties post their episodic volunteer
opportunities on the CVC website.
UIS and
Springfield community members can visit
www.volunteerillinois.org to find out about volunteer
opportunities around the state. McLean said that the website gives
a month-by-month calendar that runs through 2007 listing the
volunteer opportunities submitted by the different agencies.
The CVC
website has 170 not-for-profit organizations registered. Each
agency has its own webpage linked through the CVC website where they
can post any volunteer positions they have available, according to
McLean.
“We
tried to make the website as simple as possible so people can access
it without any problems, she said.
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