Global Experience Program in Japan invites public to participate

UIS is inviting the public to join degree-seeking students for two study-abroad weeks in Ashikaga, Japan, in June. The global experience has been a program UIS has held in Springfield’s sister city for ten years.

UIS’s Global Experience program will offer a short course on Japanese language and culture in Ashikaga.

Details of the trip and past participants' experiences were highlighted in a January 30, 2010, article in the State Journal-Register.

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20100130-SJR-Ashikaga.pdf

UIS community joins in MLK celebration downtown

The Ministerial Alliance of Springfield’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. observance service, held at Union Baptist Church, became the destination for the University of Illinois Springfield’s march in honor of King this year.

The march began at Second Street and Capitol Avenue, where UIS' Voices in Praise Choir performed in front of a statue of Martin Luther King Jr. before about 40 people walked toward Union Baptist Church, where the annual service was held.

The march and UIS' involvement in the celebration was featured in a January 19, 2010, article in the State Journal-Register.

Download a PDF of the article: 20100118-SJR-MLKmarch.pdf

Celebrating New Year's should involve safe drinking

Many people look forward to ringing in the New Year with a few rounds of beer, friends and lighthearted laughs.

Valerie Scarborough, alcohol and drug prevention coordinator at the University of Illinois Springfield, says good times can quickly become bad memories when peer pressure and a lack of restraint lead to dangerous dares at the bar counter.

Scarborough's comments were featured in a December 29, 2009, article published by Gatehouse Media.

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20091229-Gatehouse-drinkingNewYears.pdf

First-year students preparing to move in

UIS resident assistant Chase Schneider gave insight into what college students should think about bringing to school with them when they move in to the dormitories or residence halls. Schneider's comments were featured in an August 4, 2009, article in the State Journal-Register.

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20090804-SJR-movingindorms.pdf

SSU graduate has received four James Beard Foundation Awards for cookbooks

Former Springfield resident Cheryl Alters Jamison, a cookbook author, has received four of the prestigious James Beard Foundation Awards, considered the "Oscars of the food world."

Jamison is a graduate of Sangamon State University, where she received her M.A. in community arts management in 1977.

Jamison was featured in a June 24, 2009, article in the State Journal-Register.

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20090624-SJR-cookbookjamison.pdf

Proposed sports complex could be home to future UIS baseball team

A $60 million sports center that would include a 3,000-seat baseball stadium, soccer fields and a football/track facility is being proposed for the south side of Springfield.

It could be a beautiful home stadium for a new UIS baseball team from the way it is described, according to Chancellor Richard Ringeisen.

Ringeisen's comments were featured in a May 3, 2009, article in the State Journal-Register about the proposed facility.

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20090503-SJR-sportscomplex.pdf

International students celebrate the holidays away from home

On Tuesday, December 23, 50 students representing a handful of cultures gathered at the Butler Housing Commons building on the UIS campus to spend time together, listen to music and try a few new foods during a holiday party coordinated by Jeannie Capranica, acting assistant director of the Diversity Center.

The holiday party and other social opportunities for international students who stay on campus over winter break are written about in an article by the State Journal-Register on December 25, 2008.

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20081225-SJR-InternationalStudents.pdf