This is an annual reminder that your employees may be eligible to participate in an alternative or flexible work schedule, operations permitting, in accordance with applicable policies, rules, and collective bargaining agreements.
The alternative or flexible work schedules for Summer 2025 have a window between 05/11/2025 and 08/16/2025.
OPEL Fellows for 2025-2027
Leah Bueso
Dr.
Dear colleagues,
At today’s Campus Senate meeting, the following individuals were elected as officers for the 2025/2026 academic year:
The State Department of Central Management Services (CMS) has announced that the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Benefit Choice enrollment period will begin May 1 and end June 2, 2025.
The Division of Advancement is seeking projects to consider for awarding one-time (non-reoccurring) money from the UIS Fund. Throughout the year, UIS alumni, employees and friends make contributions to the UIS Fund, the overall unrestricted gift fund for UIS. This fund provides maximum flexibility in advancing UIS.
Dear colleagues —
The search for the UIS Vice Chancellor for Finance & Administration has yielded four finalists. They will be visiting campus for interviews on April 28, 29 and May 1, 2.
An open forum will take place for interested faculty and staff to attend and learn more about each of the candidates.
Candidate resumes and instructions for providing feedback will be shared at the open forum.
April 22, 2025
System Human Resource Services (SHRS) recently updated our website to clarify information, answer common questions, and reference relevant legislation. Key updates include:
To faculty and staff across the University of Illinois System:
We are delighted to announce that we will once again be granting three gift days to employees eligible for leave benefits in the upcoming 2025-26 fiscal year. These gift days will be Wednesday, Dec. 24; Tuesday, Dec. 30; and Wednesday, Dec. 31.
Priyanka Deo is an instructor in the School of Communications and Media and director for Student Media.
Can you give a brief timeline of how your career led you to UIS?
My journey to the University of Illinois Springfield began as an undergraduate, studying political science and sociology/anthropology. I also was a CAP Honors student, received a varsity tennis scholarship and served as captain of the women’s varsity tennis team during my senior year.
Good morning, all:
We are partnering with ITS to offer several Course Survey report demo sessions to highlight the enhanced reporting functionality of the recently-launched Course Survey App. Instructors will have on-demand access to a variety of reports for your courses (once data is available for Spring 25), including filters by course level, semester, part-of-term, and modality (online, classroom, blended).
We hope you will be available to participate in one of the three sessions: