Join us for three open forums featuring candidates for the Vice Chancellor for Enrollment and Retention Management position:

• Monday, March 16 at 1:30 PM in Brookens Auditorium
• Tuesday, March 17 at 3:00 PM in Brookens Auditorium
• Thursday, March 19 at 3:00 PM in UHB 2008

Each candidate will deliver a 20 to 30-minute presentation. A Q&A session will follow each presentation.

Printed candidate information will be available at the forum.

CFE/COLRS: Accessibility Compliance Party

Not sure where to start on making your Canvas courses accessible? Or do you want to carve out some time to get a head start on your Summer or Fall courses? We are here to help!

The March installment of the Employee Development Series will be on Annual Evaluations presented by Kenzie Filchak and Drew Schlosser on March 31, 2026, from 9 to 11 a.m. Information from this session will be most beneficial to supervisors, but all are welcome to attend. Topics covered in this session include form functions, preparing for the evaluation discussion with employees, and avoiding evaluation pitfalls. The evaluation season will begin April 1, 2026, with evaluations due June 5, 2026.

Dear Campus Community,

From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Monday, March 9, UIS Athletics will host a planned emergency response training exercise at Kiwanis Stadium. During this time, you may notice an increased presence of law enforcement officers, emergency medical personnel, ambulances, and a helicopter operating near the stadium.

Campus Senate will meet on Friday, March 6, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, in Brookens Library 230-A.

If an expected document is missing from the links provided, please notify CampusSenate@uis.edu as soon as possible.

Another round of Take Your Child to Work Day is happening April 23, 2026. We have a full afternoon planned that includes a dorm tour, exercise science activity, E-sports tour and more. We welcome up to 20 kids, aged 10-15 years old (7-9 with a parent present), to come and join us as we explore UIS.

Faculty and staff are invited to join the annual College2Career networking hour occurring 9:30 am - 10:30 am CDT on Friday, March 20, 2026 in TRAC.

Please join us on March 11, 2026, at 3 p.m. to celebrate this year's CARE, CAPE, and Star Award nominees and recipients! Light refreshments and a cash bar will be available.

This session explores how Work-Based Learning can move beyond internships and become the structural backbone of a program in higher education. Drawing from decades of implementation experience, including contributions to UIS’s planned School of Engineering. Ronald Ulseth will share models, design principles, and implementation strategies for integrating authentic industry work, reflection, and competency assessment into the curriculum.

Discover a full suite of AI-enabled computing resources available to support your research, teaching, and innovative course design at UIS. This hands-on session will introduce four powerful tools you can begin using right away: