University of Illinois Springfield Professor Emeritus and Senior Fellow Ray Schroeder and the late Karen Swan, The James J. Stukel Presidential Professor of Educational Leadership at UIS, have authored two chapters in the new book “A Guide to Administering Distance Learning.”

The University of Illinois Springfield is now offering its students an opportunity to enroll in new degrees and minors with the recent addition of three new schools. 

The three new schools include the School of Education, the School of Public Management and Policy, and the School of Politics and International Affairs. 

The University of Illinois Springfield is giving students a chance to speed up their academic progress over the holidays.

UIS will offer 18 different “accelerated” courses for academic credit. The classes run for a five-week period from December 13th through January 15th. Classes will be offered in multiple subjects, including communications, computer science, economics, history, public administration, and more.

This story was published on WMAY on Oct. 25, 2021.

About a year before Christine Mallinson gave birth to her first child, she and her husband agreed that all of their children would take her last name. The decision came down to family cohesion: The couple wanted their children—they eventually had two—to share a last name with the only cousin near their kids in age, who was Mallinson’s niece.

University of Illinois Springfield students went trick-or-treating for a cause Sunday.

Seven teams of students traveled around the Capital City asking for canned food donations to be donated to the Central Illinois Food Bank.

Organizers say that the annual event is an important one, and that the goal this year was to collect 10,000 pounds of food.

This story aired on WICS Newschannel 20 on Oct. 31, 2021.

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