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A UIS Assistant Coach has been named a Thirty Under 30 honoree by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association.
University of Illinois Springfield assistant coach Jenna Kotas just completed her second season with the Prairie Stars, where they had their best season in its NCAA history.
Kotas also won the award at Purdue Northwest when she coached there.
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C., March 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Value Colleges (
www.valuecolleges.com), an independent online guide to the best values in undergraduate and graduate education, is pleased to share three new rankings:
25 Best Value Online Master s in Political Science for 2021
For all rankings, Value Colleges focused specifically on fully accredited colleges and universities with an established reputation for quality. Value Colleges rankings are based on verified data from sources including IPEDS. Programs are ranked according to factors including tuition cost, student satisfaction, and alumni salary, so students can feel certain their choice of degree will have a positive impact on their career.
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The ways of the pandemic could be with us for the rest of our lives.
Getting used to working from home, University of Illinois Springfield professor Ken Kriz (pictured) is looking at how you and I are spending our money:
“On things like home and home entertainment. Those are up. We are spending on things we can consume at home a lot more,” he told a UIS webinar.
“Restaurants are actually recovering,” continued Kriz. “When i did a presentation on this even six months ago, this was negative. It’s now slightly up. Restaurants have been very inventive about finding ways to stay afloat, with curbside pickup and delivery and things like that.”
That experience will look a little different than past UIS graduations in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Students like Shaik, who is getting her master s degree in computer science, are being given the option of having an in-person “stage experience” days before a May 15 virtual commencement celebration.
Students were informed of the plan last week.
UIS degree candidates who book the “stage experience” will be able to walk across the Sangamon Auditorium stage to be congratulated by UIS Interim Chancellor Karen Whitney and UIS Provost Dennis Papini, who will be wearing full academic regalia.
The stage will be set up like it usually is for graduation, said Joan Sestak, the director of community and governmental relations in the chancellor s office and a co-chair of the commencement committee.
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University of Illinois Springfield junior Lexi Dhamrait of Springfield was in New Orleans with UIS administrator Mark Dochterman on an annual spring break service trip when they got word from the university system that in-person classes were canceled for the rest of the semester.
Focused on running the trip and doing their service projects, Dhamrait was aware of all the news about the coronavirus the NBA season getting canceled, the stock market crashing and cases of COVID-19 popping up across the country but didn’t grasp the seriousness of the situation.
“It wasn’t reckless because we didn’t know too much, so in our minds, it was still safe for us to do what we were doing,” Dhamrait said.