CSAC 2025 Nominations are in! Voting Polls are open!

Online Voting will take place June 16th to June 20th, 2025.

Eleven Civil Service employees have submitted nomination forms and are appearing on this year’s ballot as candidates for seven open positions:

Greetings Campus Community:

The annual evaluation season is coming to an end as of 5:00 p.m. today, June 6th. Please finalize your evaluations and submit them to our office using the evaluation form found on our Performance Evaluation Program webpage. If you have any questions regarding the form or the status of an evaluation, please reach out to Kenzie Westlake at mwest22@uis.edu.

UIS Office of Human Resources

Join Your Civil Service Advisory Council

Nomination Forms Available for CSAC Election

CSAC provides a communication link between Civil Service employees, the Director of Human Resources, the Chancellor, campus-wide, university-wide, and state-wide groups. All status (non-probationary) Civil Service employees are invited to submit online nomination forms for this year's Civil Service Advisory Council (CSAC) election.

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.

The May 2025 UIS Human Resources Newsletter highlights two key updates: the Protection of Minors Event Form is now fully online, streamlining submissions directly to HR with contact support from Paige Lavin, and an upcoming Employee Development Series session titled “Discussing Implicit Bias,” scheduled for May 29, 2025. This in-person training, led by Ray Rodriguez, will focus on recognizing and addressing interpersonal bias in the workplace, emphasizing the roles of ethics, equity, and culture.

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. 

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:

Ray Rodriguez, MPH, NBC-HWC, started as the Senior Director of Access and Equity and as the Title IX Coordinator for UIS on Monday, March 31, 2025.

Rodriguez brings nearly four decades of leadership experience in higher education, specializing in diversity, equity, reproductive health, violence prevention, ethics, inclusion and federal compliance.  

In the April HR Newsletter, we discuss the new schedule for the Biennial Job Description Collection, April's Employee Development Series Session, as well as Save the Dates for the 2025 Retirement & Recognition Ceremony, Take Your Child To Work Day, and the End of the Year Academic Party!