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Executive Summary – Chancellor's Division
**The below information is from the 2006-2016 UIS Strategic Plan. For information on the current 2018-2028 Strategic Compass, visit https://www.uis.edu/strategiccompass/ **
The Chancellor's Office oversaw the development of the UIS Strategic Plan in the past 18 months. Chancellor Ringeisen described it as "a bold and exciting statement about the future of UIS. This plan shows us the way. Understanding and pursuing the six goals in this plan now becomes the task of every UIS faculty and staff member. This plan is not extra work for UIS. It is our work."
So the implementation of the UIS Strategic Plan, "Creating a Brilliant Future," becomes the most important work of the Chancellor's Division for the foreseeable future.
The Chancellor's Division includes the Chancellor, the Office for Access and Equal Opportunity, the Office for Web Services, the Public Relations and Marketing departments, Conference Services, Special Events, Development, Alumni Relations and Constituent Relations. Reporting to the Chancellor are the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (Provost) and the Vice Chancellor for Student and Administrative Services. The Chancellor's Cabinet consists of the chancellor, the two vice chancellors, the executive assistant to the president, the campus legal counsel, the associate chancellor for constituent relations, and the assistant vice president for business and finance.
Vision Statement
The division will be recognized as the catalyst of a university in which students, staff and faculty can articulate the UIS vision and mission and in which they work collaboratively to create a premier small public university offering innovative, high-quality liberal arts education, public affairs activities, and professional programs dedicated to academic excellence, to enriching individual lives, and to making a difference in the world.
Mission Statement
The Chancellor's Division focuses energetically on positioning UIS to be recognized as a high-quality small public liberal arts university. It directs and allocates resources for the successful implementation of the UIS vision and mission.
The chancellor in particular and his senior staff work closely with the University of Illinois central administration and promote harmony and unity within the broad UIS community.
Statement of Strategic Intent
Because this is a bold vision for the future of UIS, the Chancellor's Division must assume responsibility for making it a part of our message:
UIS will be recognized as one of the top five small public liberal arts universities in the United States.
We will achieve this by creating a world-class liberal arts oriented undergraduate educational experience reflecting many of the characteristics and best practices of small private liberal arts colleges while building on our many strengths. Among those strengths are professional academic programs, graduate education, and public affairs activities.
Strategic Goals for the Chancellor's Division
The goals of the Chancellor's Division are supplemented by the unit strategic plans of the offices of Development, Alumni Relations, Campus Relations, Campus Services, Marketing and Web Services.
Goal #1: Implement the UIS Strategic Plan, 2006-2011
A major focus of the Chancellor's Division will be to implement the overall UIS Strategic Plan and its goals, to align resources with those goals in annual budgeting, and to help find the new resources needed to implement the plan fully.
Goal #2: Meet the development campaign goal
The Chancellor's Division will invest considerable human and financial resources into meeting the University of Illinois' major campaign goal (expected to be $25 million) for UIS. UIS will meet or exceed this goal.
Goal #3: Establish identity and brand and internal communications plan
The communications arms of the Chancellor's Divisions will collaborate to establish a firm identity for UIS among the faculty, staff and students; in the central Illinois region; and ultimately, nationally. Those units will also develop and sustain an ongoing internal communications plan to make clear the vision and direction of UIS.
Goal #4: Strengthen campus culture
This is nearly identical to Goal #4 of the Strategic Plan. Since it is a campuswide goal, the Chancellor's Division will work with UIS staff, faculty, students, alumni, and friends so that UIS is known for its high level of responsiveness to students and as an institution where respect and civility prevail in all interactions.
Goal #5: Local action, global impact
The Chancellor's Division, especially with its communication arm, will continuously make connections between programs and activities at UIS in the context of what's happening in central Illinois, in the nation and in the world.
Goal #6: Create three- and five-year plans for salary equity
Salary equity has long been a point of contention among UIS staff. The Chancellor's Cabinet will create three- and five-year plans in pursuit of salary equity.
Goal #7: Develop ongoing orientation for existing and new staff
Orientation to campus values and the UIS mission and vision will be provided to all staff in a systematic way, and it will become part of the orientation process for new staff. The Chancellor's Cabinet will oversee this with the assistance of Human Resources. The development of this process will include a list of UIS Traditions and legendary stories.
Goal #8: Develop a Campus Welcome Committee to provide group orientation
As described in Goal #4, the Chancellor's Division will create and oversee a Campus Welcome Committee, which will meet monthly with all new UIS employees and provide specific information about the benefits of being a UIS employee and what is expected of UIS employees in terms of customer service and civility.
Resource Needs
This UIS Strategic Plan identifies many specific needs, including physical enhancements: more internal and external gathering spaces (sometimes called "third spaces"), a Student Center, another residence hall, more laboratory facilities, and a renovation of Brookens Library and the metal buildings. The plan also highlights the need to find more extracurricular opportunities for students, to create a comprehensive plan for cultural and arts activities, and to address salary equity issues and salary competitiveness for staff and faculty. We estimate needs of $4.351 million in annually recurring funds and $95,000 in one-time, nonrecurring funds over the next five years to implement our goals. We have also identified a need for $89 million in capital funds for some of the initiatives in this strategic plan and for buildings identified in the campus master plan of 2000. The Chancellor's Division and Chancellor's Cabinet will take responsibility for maintaining a focus on these needs.
Resource Needs Summary (from Strategic Plan)
|Recurring Financial Resources
|Nonrecurring Financial Resources
|Human Resources
|Capital Investment
|Goal #1: Academic Excellence
|$ 360,000
|$ 24,000
|$ 600,000
|Goal #2: Enriching Individual Lives
|$ 590,000
|$ 16,000
|$ 2,800,000
|Goal #3: Making a Difference in the World
|$ 132,000
|$ –
|$ –
|Goal #4: Campus Culture
|$ 481,000
|$ 55,000
|$ 600,000
|Goal #5: Enrollment & Retention
|$ 688,000
|$ –
|Goal #6: Infrastructure
|$ –
|$ 95,000


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Mayor's Office
The Mayor's Committee for International Friendship (MCIF) and the Lincoln Council for International Visitors (LCIV) elected officers at the joint annual meeting October 28 at the Country Inn and Suites in Lincoln. Outgoing President Robert Wagner conducted the meeting, and Dolores Mather, First Contact for MCIF, reported that the organization hosted 45 visitors from 32 different countries this year.
Professor Ian Newman, UN-L College of Education and Human Services, presented a program titled, "Being a Foreigner in My Home Town and a Stranger Nowhere."
Officers elected for 2011 are Shahid Kamal, President; Michael Short, Vice-President; Debbie Engstrom, Secretary; Dolores Mather, First Contact; Robert Wagner, Advisor; Ron Svoboda, Treasurer; Roger Ehlers, Newsletter Editor; and Carmelee Tuma, Public Relations Coordinator.
Robert Stoddard was re-elected to the LCIV Board, and Elaine Hammer was appointed as a LCIV Board Member to complete Kamal's unexpired term.
LCIV provides support for the MCIF, a volunteer organization which hosts visitors from around the world. The committee sets up visits with professional counterparts and plans cultural exchanges and learning experiences to promote international understanding among the visitors and citizens in the Lincoln area. Participants are established or potential foreign leaders in government, politics, media, education, science, labor relations and other key fields. They are selected by American Embassies overseas to visit the United States to experience this country firsthand.

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(CNN) -- Florida Gov. Rick Scott met late Thursday with a group of several hundred Florida A&M students upset over his recommendation that trustees suspend the school's president in the wake of alleged hazing and "financial irregularities."
Chanting "We've got questions. You've got answers," the students marched to the governor's mansion, promising to stay until Scott changed his mind.
"We are not going to leave," said Breyon Love, the FAMU student body president. "Mr. Governor, with all due respect, we will be here all night, all day tomorrow until you apologize or rescind that recommendation."
Appearing in a gray sweatshirt, Scott addressed the crowd through a megaphone outside the mansion, thanking them for caring and coming out.
I want the best thing for FAMU. I want the best thing for the FAMU family. I want the best thing for the great state of Florida," the governor told students, although not conceding to their wishes.
Earlier, Scott had told the chairman of FAMU's board of trustees, Solomon L. Badger III, that he felt the board should take further action against university President James Ammons when it meets Monday, the statement said. The governor also "placed a call" to Ammons to notify him of these conversations.
"I think it's in his best interests (to) make sure that there is no question that this university is doing the right thing and cooperating," Scott said Thursday.
The discussions came after Scott returned Thursday from a trade mission to Israel and was briefed by staffers on recent developments out of the Tallahassee university, according to the governor's office.
Ammons responded Thursday that he was "sure that this investigation will determine that, under my leadership, the administration acted appropriately."
At the same time, he said he was prepared to accept his fate.
"I serve at the pleasure of the FAMU board of trustees, and I will abide by whatever decision the board reaches," he said.
Badger also released a statement in which he acknowledged "a communication with the governor." He said he hadn't talked with other trustees, promising that "we will make a decision about how we move forward Monday."
"This is a very difficult decision that we are facing," Badger said.
The band's director, Julian White, has been placed on administrative leave. One trustee, Rufus Montgomery, advocated a week ago that the university president should likewise be suspended -- but, instead, the board voted then to reprimand him.
"If you can place ... Julian White on administrative leave pending an investigation outcome, then we as a board can place James Ammons on administrative leave, procedure-wise," Montgomery said December 8.
The school president had pledged Wednesday to "root out this culture of hazing," though he declined to offer details about what specifically might change.
Band drum major Robert Champion Jr., 26, died after a November 19 football game following a suspected hazing incident.
He "reportedly threw up in the parking lot and started complaining of not being able to breathe," authorities said in a statement. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. No cause of death has been released.
Some band members said he may have died after a rite of passage called "crossing Bus C." One member, who spoke on condition of anonymity, explained that members "walk from the front of the bus to the back of the bus back backward while the bus is full of other band members, and you get beaten until you get to the back."
About three weeks before Champion's death, freshman band member Bria Hunter suffered a cracked femur, deep bone bruising and blood clots after being beaten repeatedly on the thighs, according to arrest affidavits from Tallahassee police.
Three men -- Sean Hobson, 23, Aaron Golson, 19, and James Harris, 22 -- were charged with hazing, a crime under Florida law, this week in her case. Hobson and Golson additionally are charged with felony battery.
"We're sending all these kids off to school. ... We expect them to come back with an education and alive," Scott said Thursday.
The university's troubles go beyond the hazing reports.
Jerry Bailey, commissioner of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, said Wednesday that authorities looking into Champion's death had found evidence of "financial irregularities having to do with the band and several other components of the university."
The suspected fraud is not directly related to Champion's death, Bailey said.
"It became apparent (from) some of the people that we interviewed (that) the financial irregularities had to do with the band travels and other sports and administrative components of the university," he said.
The state commissioner said it is premature to conclude that the irregularities are "systemic," adding that it is too soon to tell how much money may be involved. But, he added, "it's not just isolated" to the band program.
In a statement Wednesday, Badger -- chairman of FAMU's trustees -- said the university could not comment, "but we are cooperating fully with this and all investigations."
The governor said Thursday that he isn't advocating that Ammons resign but rather "step aside" until the investigation is complete. Ideally, this inquiry will show that whatever problems are "isolated," he added.
"My goal is to have a thorough investigation that everybody feels very comfortable that everybody cooperated with," Scott said. "Hopefully, there was nothing more (Ammons) could do."
Champions' parents did not reference Ammons specifically during an interview, which was conducted with HLN's Dr. Drew Pinsky before Scott made his recommendation. Yet the young man's father did state that it was important that there's accountability -- for both Champion's death and hazing in general.
"I think the school should be held accountable, I think that each organization should be held accountable," Robert Champion Sr. said Thursday. "We have to get down to the root of the problem, so that everyone can be responsible."
His wife, Pam Champion, said their family will champion anti-hazing education efforts and look into setting up a hotline through which people can anonymously call in reports of hazing.
She said that everyone at FAMU -- from administrators, to students, to alumni -- and other schools need to work together to stop hazing, which she called endemic to a larger cultural issue.
"If you're not going to be part of the solution, then you are part of the problem," Pam Champion said. "The idea is to (get) rid of the whole culture, the whole mind-set of it."


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Nationals lose lead late, fall to Braves
WASHINGTON -- The Nationals were without closer Rafael Soriano at Nationals Park on Friday night, and it proved costly as the Braves defeated the Nationals, 6-4, in 10 innings.
It was the battle for early-season National League East supremacy, and Atlanta is now two games ahead of Washington. The game was tied at 4 when reliever Craig Stammen allowed a two-run homer to Ramiro Pena to give the Braves their first lead.View Full Game Coverage
WASHINGTON -- The Nationals were without closer Rafael Soriano at Nationals Park on Friday night, and it proved costly as the Braves defeated the Nationals, 6-4, in 10 innings.
It was the battle for early-season National League East supremacy, and Atlanta is now two games ahead of Washington. The game was tied at 4 when reliever Craig Stammen allowed a two-run homer to Ramiro Pena to give the Braves their first lead.View Full Game Coverage
"[These are] two good teams," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "There are not any easy outs up and down the lineup, and we haven't even started swinging the bats yet. We have good pitching staffs. Our pitching staff is solid and their pitching staff is solid. Obviously if Soriano was available, it might have been a different story. But we took advantage of that and snuck one in there."
Soriano wasn't available because he had pitched in three straight games against the White Sox. He also is dealing with a minor leg injury. Without Soriano on Friday night, Washington's relievers pitched three innings, allowing four runs on five hits and four walks.
"We are just not locating the ball -- all over the place," Nationals manager Davey Johnson said. "I have to take responsibility for using them or something. … We just didn't make the pitches. We didn't attack the hitters. We gave them momentum."
For much of the night, it looked like the Nationals were going to win the series opener, as outfielder Bryce Harper stayed hot at the plate and left-hander Ross Detwiler was dealing on the mound.
Harper put Washington on the board against right-hander Julio Teheran in the first inning. With Denard Span on second base, Harper hit a 2-1 pitch, and while it looked like he hit the ball off the end of the bat, he put enough power on it to hit his fifth home run of the season and give the Nationals a 2-0 lead. Harper finished 1-for-4 and is now hitting .400 on the young season.
Washington added two more runs the next inning. Kurt Suzuki scored on a single by Span, and Span scored on a single by Jayson Werth. Teheran settled down and pitched six innings and allowed just the four runs.
"We weren't as patient. He didn't have the great command. We were helping him early in the count on his pitches," Johnson said about Teheran. "We were a little over aggressive."
Detwiler had another solid outing, pitching seven innings, allowing one run on four hits and striking out five. His only blemish was a solo home run to Chris Johnson in the seventh.
"It's two games that Det pitched two great ballgames and came out with nothing. I feel bad about that," Johnson said.
Detwiler felt he had to pitch deep into the game because the bullpen was in need of a break. He went seven innings and threw his fastball 95 percent of the time.
"I felt strong in the end. I wish there were less three-ball counts so I could have gone deeper," Detwiler said. "The bullpen has been taxed the last few days. They have been working pretty hard. I was shooting for them to get the night off. I wish I could have gone deeper."
But the Braves made it interesting in the eighth inning with Tyler Clippard on the mound. He was able to get two quick outs, but had difficulty getting that third one. Before he knew it, Clippard had the bases loaded when Jason Heyward scored on a walk to B.J. Upton to make it 4-2. It didn't help that Clippard couldn't get his changeup over the plate for strikes.
After Clippard threw 34 pitches, Johnson decided to bring in Drew Storen to face Dan Uggla.
"I wasn't able to execute to get that final out," Clippard said.
On an 0-1 pitch from Storen, the sound of the bat indicated that the ball was hit hard by Uggla, but Span was able to catch the ball in deep center field.
With runners on second and third and one out in the ninth, Storen struck out Andrelton Simmons, but Heyward walked to load the bases. Justin Upton came to the plate and hit a grounder to third baseman Ryan Zimmerman, who went for the force at second, but threw the ball away trying to get Heyward at second base. Two runs ended up scoring and the game was tied at 4.
In retrospect, Zimmerman felt he should have held on to the ball and let Upton get on with a infield single.
"Tough play," Zimmerman said. "I think first base is out of the question. I'm not going to beat the guy at third. I thought if I turned and made a perfect throw, I had a chance to get the guy at second -- bang, bang. Obviously Heyward is fast. It's really tough as a competitor to catch the ball and throw it back to Drew and just have the bases loaded. In hindsight, that would have been the better play."
The bullpen has struggled early this season, allowing 23 runs in 30 2/3 innings. Does Johnson plan on making any changes? For now, the answer is no.
"They are going to be fine. They are a tremendous talent," Johnson said. "This is a tough one. There has been a couple for Det, we haven't held them. I take responsibility for that. That's my part of the game -- feeding the matchups. That's the tough part."
The Nationals and Braves face each other Saturday afternoon at Nationals Park.
"We have a 1 o'clock game tomorrow, which is nice. We can get back on it," Clippard said.
Bill Ladson is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, All Nats All the time. He also could be found on Twitter @WashingNats.


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August 07, 2010
Raymond N. (Ray) Smartt, an OSA Fellow and former scientist at the U.S. National Solar Observatory (NSO) in Sacramento Peak, New Mexico, passed away on 7 August 2010, in Newcastle, Australia, a few days after his 80th birthday. Smartt was an optical physicist who made important contributions to coronal physics.
Smartt began his professional career at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia's national science agency. There he worked with W.H. (Beatty) Steel and Ron Giovanelli, building a 1/8 Angstrom birefringent H-alpha filter (which after refurbishment is about to continue in SOLIS). He was one of a team of three people who built the first laser in Australia, and he personally produced the first hologram in Australia.
Smartt moved to the US in 1967, completed his Masters Degree at the University of Rochester and his PhD at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Observations of the Near-Infrared Solar Corona and a New Interferometric Telescope Test). He joined the Sacramento Peak Observatory (now part of NSO) in 1976 and served as Sac Peak site director from 1984 to 1993. As chair of the Sac Peak Telescope Allocations Committee, Smartt worked diligently to insure that every observing run was successful. Later, he played a major role in developing the Sac Peak Visitor's Center, and particularly the scientific displays enjoyed by many tens of thousands of visitors every year. No one who has passed through Sac Peak will forget his magnificent garden with its huge dahlias.
Smartt retired from NSO in 2000 and returned to his native Australia.
As a skilled optician, Smartt developed (and obtained a patent for) the point-diffraction interferometer, made a number of innovations to Fabry-Perot filters used in solar physics, and in collaboration with Serge Koutchmy (following in the footsteps of Bernard Lyot and Jack Evans, and carried on by Jacques Beckers and Jeff Kuhn) he demonstrated the superb qualities of off-axis, all-reflecting coronagraphs, leading to the design of the four-meter Advanced Technology Solar Telescope.
The corona remained the focus of his solar physics career, during which he led a number of eclipse expeditions and obtained evidence of loop-loop reconnection events and the structure of the magnetic field vector in prominences, to name but a few of the many areas that he explored.
He is remembered by his colleagues as "an esteemed colleague and leading light in our profession and in our community. He will be sorely missed by the worldwide solar physics community to whose science he contributed greatly and whom he touched personally – and particularly by those of us who lived and worked closely with him at Sunspot."
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Chris Tillman pitched seven innings of two-hit ball, Adam Jones homered twice and the Baltimore Orioles defeated the Red Sox, 6-0, on Friday night to end a three-game skid.
Chris Tillman pitched seven innings of two-hit ball, Adam Jones homered twice and the Baltimore Orioles defeated the Red Sox, 6-0, on Friday night to end a three-game skid.
The loss dropped the Red Sox a percentage point behind Tampa Bay in the AL East, pending the Rays' game against the Yankees. Boston, which has dropped six of nine, had been alone atop the division since May 27.
Tillman (13-3) tied a career high with eight strikeouts in becoming the Orioles' first 13-game winner since Erik Bedard in 2007. In his past three starts against Boston, the right-hander is 3-0 with a 0.68 ERA.
Jones hit a two-run homer in the first and a solo shot in the fifth to help Baltimore bounce back from three successive losses in Kansas City. It was the third multihomer game of his career.
Manny Machado and J.J. Hardy also homered for the Orioles, who improved to 6-2 against Boston this season.
All three home runs were off John Lackey (7-8), who yielded a season-high tying five runs in 61/3 innings. The right-hander came in with a 12-4 lifetime record against the Orioles and had allowed two runs or fewer in six of seven starts since June 15.
Jacoby Ellsbury had half of Boston's four hits. The Red Sox got only one runner past second base in their eighth shutout loss of the year.
Tillman began the game with a wild streak, giving up a single and a pair of two-out walks to load the bases in the first inning before striking out Daniel Nava on three pitches.
In the bottom half, Nick Markakis singled and Jones hit an opposite-field drive to right that barely cleared the 25-foot scoreboard.
Nate McLouth led off the third with a triple off the glove of Ellsbury in center, and Machado followed with a single for a 3-0 lead.
Baltimore missed a chance to add another run when Hardy was thrown out at the plate trying to score on a single by Brian Roberts. Right fielder Shane Victorino got his seventh assist on the play, high among Boston outfielders.
But Jones hit another opposite-field homer in the fifth, giving him 22 for the season. Machado chased Lackey with a drive to left field in the seventh.
Baltimore's first home game since the All-Star break drew a crowd of 39,063.
Notes: Baltimore has homered in 11 straight games against Boston. ... Ryan Dempster takes the mound for the Red Sox on Saturday night, looking to improve his career 1.73 ERA against the Orioles. Scott Feldman will pitch for Baltimore. ... Dressing in the home clubhouse at Camden Yards for the first time, RHP Francisco Rodriguez said of the trade that sent him from Milwaukee last week: "I was surprised ... but I got excited because I knew I had a chance to be in the postseason." ... Nava has reached base in a career-high 21 straight games. ... Baltimore's Chris Davis singled in the first inning to snap a 0-for-10 skid, and Ellsbury ended a 0-for-12 drought with a fifth-inning double. ... The Orioles' four homers tied a season high.