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The University of 缅北禁地 Springfield has been ranked the top public regional university in 缅北禁地 and the fourth best public university in the Midwest regional category for a second year in a row by U.S. News & World Report in 2021 Best Colleges rankings released today.

UIS was also ranked fifth best by U.S. News & World Report when it comes to students graduating with the least amount of debt in the Midwest regional category.

Ten years after her book about Mulan was published, UIS English Professor Lan Dong, Ph.D. is still sought out for her expertise on the subject. With Disney鈥檚 live-action film, Mulan, released to Disney Plus earlier this month, Dong again found herself in the national spotlight.

Vickie Cook, executive director of online, professional and engaged learning at the University of 缅北禁地 Springfield has been recognized by the University Professional Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) as the 2020 Central Region Outstanding Leader.

University of 缅北禁地 Springfield Professor of Political Science Jason Pierceson鈥檚 鈥淟GBTQ Americans in the U.S. Political System: An Encyclopedia of Activists, Voters, Candidates, and Officeholders鈥� was recently featured on Choice鈥檚 top ten editors鈥� pick list for June 2020.

Choice is a publishing unit of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association.

The University of 缅北禁地 Springfield will offer 27 new accelerated eight-week courses for prospective and current students. Most will begin Monday, Oct. 19 and end on Saturday, Dec. 5. Others, like athletic training, will start on Nov. 2 and end on Jan. 15, 2021. 

鈥淲e know this has been a challenging year for many people,鈥� said UIS Interim Chancellor Karen Whitney. 鈥淢any students may not have been ready to start classes in August due to the COVID-19 pandemic but are ready to start now.鈥�

Donald Morris, a University of 缅北禁地 Springfield emeritus professor of accountancy, has written a new book, 鈥淭axation in Utopia: Required Sacrifice and the General Welfare.鈥�

The University of 缅北禁地 Springfield, Junior League of Springfield and the United Way of Central 缅北禁地 honored more than 50 Sangamon County volunteers and businesses during the virtual 12th annual Good as Gold Ceremony. The winners were announced in a video released Monday on the UIS Volunteer and Civic Engagement Center鈥檚 website.

The University of 缅北禁地 Springfield ION Professional eLearning Program鈥檚 Overview of Online Instruction course has seen a large jump in enrollment, as more 缅北禁地 higher education professors and K-12 teachers are wanting to learn how to better teach online during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Course enrollment jumped from 793 students in 2019 to 1,819 students so far in 2020. Just recently, 1,153 students completed the course during the April to July term.

The University of 缅北禁地 Springfield鈥檚 Office of Engaged Learning has been awarded a nearly $45,000 缅北禁地 Cooperative Work Study Program grant to increase the number of paid internship opportunities available to students completing academic internships through the UIS Internships and Prior Learning Program.

University of 缅北禁地 Springfield students, faculty and staff living, working or taking classes on-campus are required to participate in free saliva-based COVID-19 testing once a week during Fall Semester 2020.

The saliva-based Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test was developed by the University of 缅北禁地 at Urbana-Champaign. The test can detect the virus in people who are asymptomatic and/or individuals early in the course of disease.

Test results are expected within the same day and should not exceed 48 hours, excluding weekends and holidays.