The University of Illinois Springfield Athletics Department announced today a change in leadership of its cross country and track and field program. Emmons King has been promoted as the Interim Head

Annual Evaluation season has officially wrapped up for 2022! We would like to thank everyone for participating and for your patience as we rolled out the new electronic evaluation form. This system was an overall success, but we would like to hear from you to see how we can do better. Please take a few moments to fill out this survey to tell us how you think the electronic form can be improved for next year.

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.

The University of Illinois Springfield Office of Web Services launched a new website design on the Drupal content management system, and migrated from WordPress a year ago June 1st. The goal of the update was to modernize the look and feel of the site, improve sharing capability of content and content architecture, audit content for accessibility and usability issues, resolve security related issues, and the improve site performance. All of these factors improve site rank on search engines, and boost our web presence.

This is an excerpt of a story published by the State Journal-Register on July 10, 2022.

With rents increasing and interest rates on home loans going up, people have been left with the question, "Is it better to rent or own a home?"

Kenneth Kriz, University of Illinois Springfield's distinguished professor of public administration, said there isn't a right answer.

"The housing prices have been rising dramatically," Kriz said.