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Academic Affairs News

Here's where you will find links to monthly Academic Affairs newsletters featuring a greeting from Provost Brandon Schwab, opportunities to make a difference, news to celebrate, updates on key initiatives, and more; as well as annual fall newsroom articles introducing new full-time faculty.

Newsletters

Catch up on what's happening in the Provost's Office and Division of Academic Affairs. Links to recent Academic Affairs Update monthly newsletters are included below:

University-Sanctioned Event Requests

University of Ãå±±½ûµØ Springfield values and supports the required participation of both on-ground and online students in university sanctioned events. Requests by organizations for permanent and/or temporary sanctioning of events will be considered by the Office of the Provost, with input from the Campus Senate Committee on Admissions, Recruitment and Retention (CARR).

Faculty Files Office

Ãå±±½ûµØ the Faculty Files Office

The Faculty Files Custodian maintains, safeguards and grants full-time faculty access to their digital personnel files. Digital files will also be made available to personnel committees and other reviewers for reappointment, tenure, and promotion reviews per the processes outlined in the and by the dates listed in the .

Academic Affairs Resources

Academic Affairs resources for faculty and staff are now available on our (UIS login required), where you will find the following under the Faculty-Staff Resources, Curriculum Planning, or Forms/Status tabs.

Academic Personnel Calendar (APC)

An overall calendar of due dates for faculty personnel process tasks, as well as individual calendars for each process.

UEOs

Fall 2025 (includes unit leads)

Accounting, Economics and Finance (AEF)

Salem Boumediene, Associate Professor and Chair

Art, Music, & Theatre (AMT)

Yona Stamatis, Associate Professor and Chair

Committees & Task Forces

Committee and Task Force Members

Scroll down through the accordion menu below to access membership for current committees, task forces, and working groups. Faculty university personnel committees are listed first, followed by an alphabetical listing of other groups.

The committee archive page, where you will find Academic Affairs committees, task forces, and working groups which have completed their work and/or are no longer active.

Key Priorities of the Directional Pillars

World-Class Teaching

The Division of Academic Affairs is committed to hiring an increasingly diverse faculty with a strong commitment to excellence in teaching, improving teaching assessment and feedback systems, recognizing and rewarding high quality teaching, and investing in ongoing development of faculty efforts to integrate teaching, scholarship, outreach, and service activities. The following general goals have been developed in support of this priority: