The SHIELD COVID-19 testing site on campus will be closed Monday, Oct. 10, due to a lab closure. The site will re-open at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11.

Protect yourself and others by getting your flu shot this year! UIS Health Services and the Sangamon County Department of Public Health are offering flu shots to the UIS community from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 20, and Wednesday, Nov. 16, located on the first floor of the Public Affairs Center (PAC) in meeting rooms C and D.

The Cox Children’s Center and the Volunteer and Civic Engagement Center encourage your participation in our annual Trunk or Treat for Canned Goods campus event. Sign up (either as an individual or as a department) to decorate a vehicle. Use your creativity! This can be a car, truck, golf cart, wagon….you name it!

The Office of Campus Relations will be hosting two Open Photo Studio sessions for Fall 2022 for all staff or faculty. These can be used for university purposes such as department websites, campus directory, speaking engagements at conference, etc. Any staff or faculty member who either hasn’t had their portrait taken or would like another, more recent, portrait taken are encouraged to attend. 

The Campus Relations studio is in the Business Services Building, Room 95 (BSB 95).

The open studio sessions will be:

As a University of Illinois employee, you are required to complete ethics training on an annual basis.

The Office of Web Service (OWS) has developed the functionality to create mailing lists, add a subscription sign-up form to your site, and send newsletters of your units most recent articles to your mailing list subscribers.

Mailing Lists

Mailing lists can be imported into the site or a new mailing list can be created to store subscribers.

Subscribe to Newsletter Form

Once a mailing list is created, a Mailing List Subscription block can be added to a page(s) to provide the option for new subscribers to sign up.

Here are some important announcements and updates from the UIS Office of Human Resources.

The University of Illinois Springfield has named Melissa Beisel the new director of the Department of Residence Life. She will oversee housing operations for more than 900 students living on the UIS campus. Her appointment is effective Aug. 1, 2022.

Retired Illinois Army National Guard Lt. Col. Loren Easter of Springfield has been named the first program director for Military and Veteran Student Services at the University of Illinois Springfield. He brings 27 years of military experience to the student support role.

WHAT: Sangamon Experience at the University of Illinois Springfield will premiere the original documentary, “Sangamo Country: 200 Years of Sangamon County.” The film features local researchers and citizens discussing the history of the county and sharing stories that have often been long forgotten.

The documentary is a production of Sangamon Experience and the Sangamon County Bicentennial Commission, cooperating with the Sangamon County Historical Society.

WHEN: Noon Thursday, May 5, 2022