Community leaders' efforts to establish a four-year public university in Downtown Peoria are beginning to bear fruit. At least the seeds are beginning to sprout.
The University of Illinois at Springfield expects to launch graduate classes in health-care administration this summer at the school's Peoria Center, based at Illinois Central College's Perley Building in the Downtown.
UIS is also exploring offering undergraduate classes in computer science and an MBA program for teachers at the Downtown campus. Last week, UIS Peoria Center expanded its offices to take up the entire second floor of the Perley Building and added more classroom space on the third floor.
"We're expanding our programs and expanding our space," said Joyce Shotick, the new director of UIS Peoria Center.
UIS currently offers an accelerated MBA program at the Peoria Center along with graduate certificate programs in human resource management, information technology project management, entrepreneurship, business intelligence and business process management.
Informational sessions on the MBA program will be at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 14 and Nov. 19 at the Perley Building, 115 SW Adams.
Shotick said UIS Peoria Center could begin offering undergraduate classes in computer science by the summer of 2014. "We're trying to see what kind of demand there is," she said.
The story was featured by the Peoria Journal Star on October 30, 2013.
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Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Carl Sandburg College signs partnership with UIS
Carl Sandburg College students pursuing a career in accounting and business administration now have an opportunity to transfer seamlessly to the University of Illinois Springfield-Peoria Center after graduating with an associate degree.
The partnership was made official Monday as CSC president Lori Sundberg and UIS Dean of the College of Business and Management Ronald McNeil signed the agreement simultaneously.
Under the agreement, students who graduate CSC with an associate degree are eligible to utilize the partnership and complete their bachelor’s degree in accounting or business administration in just two more years.
“Education is essential today,” McNeil said. “It’s the only way any student, or anybody, can survive, and what you do is great ... because you have support mechanisms that are great for students.”
The story was reported by the Galesburg Register-Mail on October 22, 2013.
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The partnership was made official Monday as CSC president Lori Sundberg and UIS Dean of the College of Business and Management Ronald McNeil signed the agreement simultaneously.
Under the agreement, students who graduate CSC with an associate degree are eligible to utilize the partnership and complete their bachelor’s degree in accounting or business administration in just two more years.
“Education is essential today,” McNeil said. “It’s the only way any student, or anybody, can survive, and what you do is great ... because you have support mechanisms that are great for students.”
The story was reported by the Galesburg Register-Mail on October 22, 2013.
Read the article online
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Discussion of street gangs opens eyes to harsh reality
Jason Haynes painted a bleak picture Tuesday night at a University of Illinois Springfield alumni event at the UIS Peoria Center.
The lieutenant at the Federal Correctional Institution in Pekin talked about the prevalence of gangs inside the prison.
"Some of these guys look at going to prison as a rite of passage," said Haynes, who said gang membership is practically mandatory. "Some gangs call prison, college. They refer to their release date from 'college' as a graduation day."
"But it is what it is," said Tim Gleason, whose UIS criminal justice students attended the presentation that also included Detective Elizabeth Blair of the Peoria Police Department and Deputy Ronda Guyton of the Peoria County Sheriff's Department.
The alumni event was featured in a March 24, 2010, article in the Peoria Journal-Star.
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Slight increase in area gang activity
Gang activity in Peoria is slowly on the rise according to area law enforcement. Peoria police say, the fatal shooting of a teen last weekend occurred during an altercation between two men believed to be involved in gangs.
Tuesday night, dozens of area residents and students gathered at the University of Illinois Springfield in Peoria for a forum on gang activity.
Detective Elizabeth Blair and Lt. Jason Haynes of Pekin's Federal Correctional Institute in have studied gangs extensively.
"There's a number of them initially that you see that steal cars, they do the retail theft and then they move up to the more violent kinds," said Blair.
The UIS Peoria Center event was featured in a WEEK/WHOI-TV report on March 23, 2010.
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