UIS Orbit is a resource for University of Illinois Springfield employees to find important news and announcements, new hire information, human resources info, upcoming employee events and more!
Jul 22, 2025
Residence Life is seeking volunteers to assist with our Fall 2025 Move In! This is a wonderful way to meet new students, welcome families to campus and celebrate the start of the year!
Move In Day for New…
Jul 21, 2025
Facilities and Services will oversee the inspection of fire alarm systems in the coming week. This is primarily a visual inspection, but there will be brief, intermittent activations of alarm horns and strobe lights as…
Jul 21, 2025
The Tower 2 elevator is temporarily out of service. Kone is expected to arrive on campus around mid-day today to make repairs.
The Tower 3 is currently being used by the contractor to transport materials but is…
Jul 21, 2025
Greeting colleagues,
The new academic year will be here in just a few weeks! If you are planning to hire a student to work during Fall semester, please register for the Foot in the Door Fair.
2025 Foot in the…
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Jul 21, 2025
07.21.25
Dear members of the UIS Campus Community:
I am pleased to announce that on July 17, 2025, after campus-level review, the University of Illinois Board of Trustees approved the following UIS faculty for tenure and/or promotion:…
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Jul 21, 2025
Dear Colleagues:
I am pleased to announce the following faculty have been reappointed, in accordance with the Faculty Personnel Policy governing second- and fourth-year review of probationary faculty at UIS.
2nd Year Reappointment
Brandon…
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Employee Recognition
Jun 17, 2025
Kali Osburn, building service sub-foreman in Campus Recreation, has been named the University of Illinois Springfield Employee of the Month for June 2025.
“Kali is committed to keeping a clean and welcoming space…
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Getting to Know You
Jun 27, 2025
Who do you call as soon as you hear good news?
My wife. She’s my biggest cheerleader and best friend. Then I call my parents and sisters.
My parents and sisters have always been my rock throughout my whole life…
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Employee Events
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Meet and Greet: Welcome new Library Commons team members
Morell Old, clinical assistant professor/digital instruction librarianJames Nickras, clinical assistant professor/collections and scholarly librarian
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We are excited to announce the next installment of the monthly Employee Development Series: Performance Management. This session will be presented by Drew Schlosser, Assistant Vice Chancellor of Human Resources. Topics…

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Sign up for website editor training on the uis.edu website. Training typically lasts an hour and is open to all staff and students.
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How do AI detectors work? Are they accurate? What biases do these systems have? Join ITS and COLRS staff to see live testing of an AI detection tool.
Join the Zoom session