Town hall meetings are scheduled this month on each of the University of Illinois campuses to get input for the committee leading the nationwide search for a new president.
The meeting at the University of Illinois Springfield is the first and is scheduled for 11 a.m. June 23 in Room 3080 of University Hall.
The open-microphone forums will give faculty, staff, students, alumni and community members an opportunity to express their thoughts to help with the search, from the challenges a new president will face to the personal qualities needed for the position.
The story was reported by The State Journal-Register on June 14, 2014.
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Monday, June 16, 2014
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Susan Koch: UIS landscape team keeps campus beautiful
The following is a portion of a column written by Chancellor Susan J. Koch. It was published in The State Journal-Register on June 8, 2014.
"I often ask students what the deciding factors were in their choice of the University of Illinois’s Springfield campus as the place where they would pursue their college degrees.
Though academic reputation, small class size and reasonable cost are often mentioned, students also tell me that they fell in love with the campus itself when they made their first visit. I guess that’s proof that you never get a second chance to make a first impression. In fact, research shows that a beautiful and functional campus is often a deciding factor in a prospective student’s college choice.
The University of Illinois Springfield campus consists of 750 acres, and it is, indeed, beautiful.
About half of the property is still Class A prime agricultural land—deep (and valuable) Ipava soil that rotates, like most active farmland in central Illinois, between crops of corn and soybeans.
A talented and dedicated crew of 12 landscape professionals and grounds workers maintains the other 350 or so acres of the campus. That includes 6.5 miles of streets and roads (13 of which are named after Illinois authors), 7 miles of sidewalks, over 400 different types of trees and shrubs, about 2,000 perennial and annual plants, a pond and acres of lawn and sports fields."
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"I often ask students what the deciding factors were in their choice of the University of Illinois’s Springfield campus as the place where they would pursue their college degrees.
Though academic reputation, small class size and reasonable cost are often mentioned, students also tell me that they fell in love with the campus itself when they made their first visit. I guess that’s proof that you never get a second chance to make a first impression. In fact, research shows that a beautiful and functional campus is often a deciding factor in a prospective student’s college choice.
The University of Illinois Springfield campus consists of 750 acres, and it is, indeed, beautiful.
About half of the property is still Class A prime agricultural land—deep (and valuable) Ipava soil that rotates, like most active farmland in central Illinois, between crops of corn and soybeans.
A talented and dedicated crew of 12 landscape professionals and grounds workers maintains the other 350 or so acres of the campus. That includes 6.5 miles of streets and roads (13 of which are named after Illinois authors), 7 miles of sidewalks, over 400 different types of trees and shrubs, about 2,000 perennial and annual plants, a pond and acres of lawn and sports fields."
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Monday, June 2, 2014
UIS men's soccer team signs two
Springfield (Missouri) Glendale High School midfielder Ruell Chappell and Naperville Nequa Valley Neuqua Valley midfielder Munashe Nyamunduru will play for the University of Illinois Springfield men’s soccer team in the fall.
Chappell dished out 22 assists to rank second in the season record book in 2013. He helped Glendale cap the season with a fourth-place finish at the Missouri Class 3 State Tournament. He received all-conference and All-Southwest region honors. His club team, Springfield Soccer Club, won the NPL Gateway Conference Champion, Missouri State Cup and Midwest Regional Tournament. It advanced to the Youth National Tournament.
Nyamunduru played for Neuqua Valley’s regional championship team in 2013. He was a member of the Chicago Fire club team. His under-14 pre-academy squad was a State Cup finalist. He went on to play for the U-16 United States developmental academy team.
The new students were featured by The State Journal-Register on May 29, 2014.
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Chappell dished out 22 assists to rank second in the season record book in 2013. He helped Glendale cap the season with a fourth-place finish at the Missouri Class 3 State Tournament. He received all-conference and All-Southwest region honors. His club team, Springfield Soccer Club, won the NPL Gateway Conference Champion, Missouri State Cup and Midwest Regional Tournament. It advanced to the Youth National Tournament.
Nyamunduru played for Neuqua Valley’s regional championship team in 2013. He was a member of the Chicago Fire club team. His under-14 pre-academy squad was a State Cup finalist. He went on to play for the U-16 United States developmental academy team.
The new students were featured by The State Journal-Register on May 29, 2014.
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