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On the Job: Jan Adamczyk
The Slavic collection at the U. of I. is the largest in Illinois, the Midwest and any state-supported U.S. university. Jan Adamczyk, a senior library specialist, takes care of the collection and responds to questions about it. “People at Yale know that we have a great collection, but most people on campus don’t,” Adamczyk […]
Illinois acceptance numbers reflect strong in-state interest, diversity gains
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. —The number of first-year students expected to report to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus for the upcoming fall semester is similar to the fall 2015 total. “We feel confident we will make our target of approximately 7,500 freshmen students in the fall, assuming the MAP grant program is adequately funded by […]
Benefit Choice: Clarification on fiscal year 2017 insurance premiums
Last week, a flier announcing the May Benefit Choice period was mailed from the state of Illinois Central Management Services, which administers health coverage for state employees. It included information at the bottom of page 5 about the possibility that U. of I. employees would be required to pay retroactive increases to their insurance premiums, […]
Final issue of Inside Illinois announced
This is the final issue of Inside Illinois, but it’s not the end of the campus news function. It’s been our privilege to produce Inside Illinois since 1990. The newspaper existed in a print format until last September, with bundles landing in campus mailrooms twice monthly. While some readers maintained their loyalty to the printed […]
On the Job: Nate Beccue
In addition to the main gardens at Allerton Park and Retreat Center, there are 1,500 acres of grounds that have to be maintained, and Nate Beccue manages to do it all by himself. Beccue, a visiting natural areas manager, began working at Allerton in 2000 as summer help while he was completing his undergraduate degree […]
Styrecycle introduces a new way to reduce campus waste
Expanded polystyrene – more commonly known by its brand name “Styrofoam” – is everywhere. It makes up your disposable coffee cup, the packing peanuts in those care packages to students, and the insulation in your office walls. At Illinois, countless bottles of chemicals, biology specimens and fragile parts of lab equipment arrive in packaging made […]
New book examines role of children’s writing in creating their childhoods
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The experiences of eight children from around the world as they learned written language, and the ways in which these students used composition to confront social, societal and pedagogical barriers, are explored in a new book by a University of Illinois scholar. “Child Cultures, Schooling and Literacy: Global Perspectives on Composing Unique […]
MCORE improvements on schedule to start this fall
Multimodal Corridor Enhancement Project transportation improvements are on schedule to begin this fall. The scale of this infrastructure work on key corridors will have significant traffic impacts including detours and street closures during construction. Updated project timelines and associated information will be provided beginning in late summer 2016. A partnership between the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit […]
FY17 Benefit Choice is May 1-31
University of Illinois employees are reminded that if they wish to make changes to their health, dental, state optional life, dependent coverage or re-enroll in the flexible spending plans, these changes must be made using NESSIE, the university’s online self-service benefits application. All changes must be made by midnight May 31 and will be effective […]
Killeen statement on stopgap funding agreement
Dear colleagues: Today, the Legislature approved a bipartisan measure that will provide stopgap funding for the University of Illinois and the state’s other public universities, and the governor has expressed his support for the bill. While we are grateful that partial funding will be restored, we see the agreement as only a beginning, not the […]
On the Job: Terry Free
In need of a classroom for an event or review session? Terry Free, an office manager for the Office of the Registrar, has got you covered. He handles the academic event scheduling for the campus, which involves finding space in general-assignment classrooms for everything except classes. “It’s a very much behind-the-scenes kind of job,” […]
LED panels light up set for Lyric Theatre production of ‘Kiss Me Kate’
U. of I. graduate student Anson Woodin (Fred/Petruchio) is on the set April 19 during a rehearsal of “Kiss Me Kate” in the Tryon Festival Theatre at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. The Lyric Theatre at Illinois production premieres at 7:30 p.m. April 21, with other performances scheduled at 7:30 p.m. April 22 and […]