University of Illinois at Springfield

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University of Illinois at Springfield
Established: 1969
Type: Public
Endowment: US $2.197 billion[1] (systemwide)
Chancellor: Richard D Ringeisen
Faculty: 324 full and part time faculty
Students: 4,855
Undergraduates: 2,863
Postgraduates: 1,898
Location: Springfield, Illinois, USA
Campus: Suburban
Colors: Blue and white
Mascot: Prairie Stars
Athletics: 9 teams in 6 sports - NAIA
Website: UIS Website

The University of Illinois at Springfield (UIS) is a small, liberal arts university located in Springfield. The school is one of three campuses of the University of Illinois. UIS was established in 1969 as Sangamon State University by the Illinois General Assembly and became a part of the University of Illinois on July 1, 1995.

UIS serves almost 5,000 students in 20 master's degree, 20 undergraduate programs, and a doctorate in Public Administration. The academic curriculum of the campus emphasizes a strong liberal arts core, an array of professional programs, extensive opportunities in experiential education, and a broad engagement in public affairs issues in its academic and community service pursuits.

UIS was once one of the two upper-division and graduate universities in Illinois. In 2001, UIS switched to a full four-year undergraduate program, and now enrolls approximately 275 freshmen, including 125 honors students each year to the Capital Scholars Honors Program. Ongoing projects include a new residence hall on Eliza Farnham Drive (opening Fall 2008), and more suite- and townhouse-style residences. Renovations of existing buildings, especially those constructed in the 1970s, are in the works. These buildings lie mostly on the east quad of the UIS campus.

The campus offers internship and fellowship opportunities in state government and business, and an evolving technology-enhanced learning environment. UIS is also nationally known for its on-line programs, which offer dozens of courses each semester and offers seven degree completion programs entirely over the Internet.

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[edit] Campus Life & Organizations

The UIS Journal is the weekly student newspaper of the University. Its circulation is 2,000 per week.[2]

[edit] Campus Buildings

Most buildings are given a three-letter acronym based on the name.

Upper Quad

  • University Hall - UHB
  • Public Affairs Center - PAC
  • Brookens Library - BRK
  • Health & Sciences Building - HSB

Lower Quad

  • WUIS/WIPA Radio Station - WUIS
  • Student Life Building - SLB
  • Visual and Performing Arts Building - VPA
  • Student Affairs Building - SAB
  • Human Resources Building - HRB
  • Cox Child Care Center

Elsewhere on Campus

  • The Recreation and Athletic Center - TRAC
  • Sangamon Schools Credit Union
  • Shepherd House
  • Spencer House
  • UIS Campus Police Dept.

[edit] Campus Housing

A diverse group of approximately 900 students live in campus housing, and many are actively involved with campus life and community events. Campus apartment flats, townhouse apartments, and family housing clusters are named after native Illinois plants.

Residence Halls & Commons

  • Lincoln Residence Hall - LRH
  • Homer L. Butler Commons - HLB
  • Founders Residence Hall (Opening Fall 2008)

Apartment Flats

Townhouse Apartments

Family Housing

[edit] Campus Streets

Most of the streets that lie within the campus are named after Illinois poets and novelists.

[edit] Notable alumni

[edit] Notable faculty

  • Ron Sakolsky, Emeritus Professor of Public Administration. Ron taught for more than 20 years on music and social justice issues. In 1995 he was one of two faculty members arrested while distributing leaflets objecting to the destruction of the faculty union, in the takeover of the University by the University of Illinois in a restructuring of higher education.[6]
  • Ron Michaelson, visiting professor of political studies - former executive director of the Illinois State Board of Elections
SSU Logo circa 1970
SSU Logo circa 1970
  • Chris Mooney and Kent Redfield, professors of political science - among the most-often quoted state government pundits in Illinois media.
  • Phillip S. Paludan, professor of history - Abraham Lincoln and American Civil War scholar, Lincoln Prize recipient, and the Naomi B. Lynn Distinguished Chair of Lincoln Studies.
  • Paul Simon, Founder/first director of UIS' Public Affairs Reporting Master's Program - United States senator, 1988 presidential candidate
  • Charlie Wheeler, director of UIS' Public Affairs Reporting program - longtime Chicago Sun-Times reporter, award-winning columnist. [1]
  • Larry Golden, professor emeritus of political science and legal studies - Director of Downstate Illinois Innocence Project.
  • Sviatoslav Braynov - professor of Computer Science, nationally known for talks about security and artificial intelligence.
  • Cullom Davis, professor of history - Archivist, founder of Abraham Lincoln Legal Papers Project
  • Patricia Langley, professor of legal studies,women and gender studies, and individual option graduate studies - regionally known as powerful voice for lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, and transgendered interest in central Illinois [2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ UIF Financials - Endowment Market Value Details. University of Illinois. Retrieved on September 29, 2007.
  2. ^ About UIS Journal, UIS Journal, University of Illinois - Springfield. Retrieved 10 March 2007.
  3. ^ a b NNDB. University of Illinois at Springfield. Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
  4. ^ Illinois Secretary of State's Office. Vince DeMuzio. Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
  5. ^ University of Illinois at Springfield. UIS alum named White House press secretary by President Bush. Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
  6. ^ From "Radical University" to Handmaiden of the Corporate State

[edit] External links


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