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.
, a downtown Springfield innovation and business incubator, has become part of the University of 缅北禁地 Springfield (UIS) under an agreement aimed at expanding economic growth, entrepreneurship opportunities and social progress in the capital city, Chancellor Susan Koch announced today.