Mark the start of a new academic year!

Formerly referred to as our faculty convocation, this event is a renewed all-employee assembly intended to kick off the new academic year together! Join us from 3-5 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023, in the Student Union Ballroom to hear briefly from Chancellor Gooch and each vice chancellor about our goals for this year, and we will share introductory information about our newest faculty colleagues and administrators. This event will be capped off with snacks and time to catch up with colleagues.

ITS is offering a new service to campus that allows employees to make/receive phone calls to their office number on their cell phone or laptop/desktop.

This service will replace IP Communicator, which has been used as a 'soft phone'. IP Communicator will be retired as of September 1 for legal compliance reasons. Ray Baum's Act requires that location information be included with a 911 call and IP Communicator does not provide that information. Support for IP Communicator ended as of September 30, 2022.

UIS employees that purchase their parking hang tag through payroll deduction were sent an email reminder in July that payroll deduction for their parking hang tag would automatically renew and that a new parking hang tag would be delivered to their campus address.

Please be aware that those parking tags were distributed last week and remember to look for your new parking hang tag!

Webtools Forms and Surveys Updates

Web Services has released two new updates to Webtools Forms and Surveys. 1) A Files tab has been added for supporting documents and 2) the Access tab has been updated with new settings. These updates position Web Services for upcoming enhancements to the Forms tool which will allow for form editing, event registration, and an approval process.

Forms and Surveys Updates

Access tab

Help provide a warm welcome to new students this fall by filling out Welcome Cards. Stop by the Volunteer & Civic Engagement Center (Student Union 103) and pick up as many as you would like to complete. We have a goal of 200! Take them back to your office, or stop by and fill them out in the Student Union. Students have loved getting these the past two years, and we would love to have your help in making it happen again this year.

Please join us for the July edition of the Supervisor Development Series: Everything I-9!

This is being held Wednesday, July 26, from 9 to 10 am via this Zoom link: https://uis.zoom.us/j/86217420799?pwd=eHBDakxobVhLYWxmSzFIOW0ySGZ1QT09

All individuals involved or interested in the I-9 processes are encouraged to attend. 

Employer registration is open for the UIS Foot in the Door Fair set for Thursday, August 31, from 3-5 pm in the Student Union Ballroom. This event is focused on promoting on-campus jobs, part-time jobs, internships, and volunteer opportunities and to promote opportunities for networking and relationship building between students and campus and community partners.