Honorary degrees recognize those who have made profound and enduring contributions to scholarship, culture, or society. Recipients will be persons of great integrity, reflecting our values as an institution.
The criteria for selecting honorary degree recipients are:
All requests for off-campus travel by staff/administrators in the Division of Academic Affairs must be authorized in advance. Please use Chrome River to request pre-approval. The purpose of travel pre-approval is to reduce risk to the individual and to the institution by clearly identifying when the employee is in work-related travel mode, and when the employee is on personal time.
Questions regarding travel requests should be directed to your supervisor.
The Director of Economic Development & Innovation (DEDI) leads a focused economic development and innovation effort at UIS to plan, coordinate, and implement entrepreneurial activities to benefit the regional economy in collaboration with the Discovery Partners Institute – Illinois Innovation Network.
Deans, Dean's Office staff, and Department/School administrators with questions about the faculty employment process at UIS may contact Monica Kroft: mkrof2@uis.edu.
Adjunct Approval Requests are submitted whenever the department/unit wishes to:
University of Illinois Springfield values and supports the required participation of both on-ground and online students in university sanctioned events. Requests by organizations for permanent and/or temporary sanctioning of events will be considered by the Office of the Provost, with input from the Campus Senate Committee on Admissions, Recruitment and Retention (CARR).
UIS looks forward to welcoming new full-time faculty each fall. New Faculty Welcome Week (NFWW) events begin August 16, or the first business day after (if August 16 falls on a weekend).
UIS is committed to providing high quality instruction to our students. Tenure system and non-tenure system faculty with instructional responsibilities must be appropriately credentialed and possess minimum required degrees based on the rank of appointment.
The Faculty Files Custodian maintains, safeguards and grants full-time faculty access to their digital personnel files. Digital files will also be made available to personnel committees and other reviewers for reappointment, tenure, and promotion reviews per the processes outlined in the Faculty Personnel Policy and by the dates listed in the Academic Personnel Calendar.