The Public Affairs Reporting program is looking for former students to assist with two events happening at and around UIS in the months to come.

1. On April 20 at 3 p.m., the UIS School of Communication and Media (the academic unit that includes PAR) is hosting an alumni panel discussion to highlight what alumni are doing with their degrees. This opportunity is open to PAR alums who are journalists OR have related careers, like PR or lobbying. The event is at UIS.

We wanted to remind you that this weekend (Saturday, February 11 and Sunday, February 12, 2023), AITS will be conducting a maintenance event on our production data center which necessitates Banner and related applications to be unavailable during two periods of time. On both Saturday and Sunday of the upcoming weekend, services will be unavailable starting at 6:00 AM each morning and will be available again by 6:00 PM each evening.

Business Objects is scheduled for an upgrade to version 4.3 the weekend of March 25. This upgrade has a very different user interface; as such, we are no longer offering training classes in the current version of Business Objects. We are still offering 1-on-1 report assistance with our data experts. You can sign up here: http://go.uillinois.edu/WebiReportAssistance

Chancellor Janet L. Gooch shared her vision for the future of the University of Illinois Springfield during a Ceremony of Investiture on Wednesday, Feb. 8, in Sangamon Auditorium on the UIS campus.The Investiture was hosted by the University of Illinois Board of Trustees and University of Illinois System President Timothy L. Killeen as a ceremonial acknowledgment of her appointment to the top UIS post.In her speech, Chancellor Gooch focused on six future goals for UIS:

The Creation of One Truth: Single-Ledger Entries for Multiple Stakeholders Using Blockchain Technology to Address the Reconciliation Problem.