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University of Illinois at Springfield

Index University of Illinois at Springfield

The University of Illinois Springfield (UIS) is a public university in Springfield, Illinois, United States. [1]

92 relations: Abraham Lincoln, Activism, Al Lewis (columnist), Alpha Kappa Alpha, Alpha Phi Alpha, American Association of State Colleges and Universities, American Civil War, American Council on Education, American Midwest Conference, Association football, Baseball, Basketball, Bobby McFerrin, Cheerleading, Cheri Bustos, Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges, Cross country running, Dana Perino, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Delta Sigma Theta, Elgie Sims, Emmy Award, George W. Bush, Golf, Gordon S. Heddell, Governor of Illinois, Graduate school, Great Lakes Valley Conference, Illinois, Illinois General Assembly, Illinois House of Representatives, Illinois Senate, Illinois State University, Jim Edgar, Jim Langfelder, Karen Hasara, Kimberly A. Lightford, Lake Springfield, Land-grant university, Liberal arts college, Lincoln Land Community College, Lincoln Prize, List of concert halls, Michael Burlingame (historian), Milton J. Nieuwsma, Mr. Mudd, National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA Division II, Northern Illinois University, ..., Online Learning Consortium, Paul Simon (politician), Performing arts, Phi Beta Sigma, Phi Kappa Tau, Phillip S. Paludan, Professor, Public administration, Public university, Pulitzer Prize, Richard B. Ogilvie, Richard Oruche, Richard Osborne, Sangamon Auditorium, Sigma Lambda Beta, Social criticism, Softball, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Springfield, Illinois, Strawbridge-Shepherd House, Tennis, The Lincoln Academy of Illinois, Thom Serafin, Timothy Davlin, Timothy Killeen (academic), Track and field, U.S. News & World Report, UIS Prairie Stars, United States, United States Department of Defense, United States dollar, United States Senate, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, University of Illinois system, Upper division college, Vince Demuzio, Volleyball, Ward Churchill, WUIS, Zeta Phi Beta. Expand index (42 more) »

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

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Activism

Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, or direct social, political, economic, or environmental reform or stasis with the desire to make improvements in society.

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Al Lewis (columnist)

Al Lewis is an American journalist who has served as a columnist for The Wall Street Journal Sunday and MarketWatch.

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Alpha Kappa Alpha

Alpha Kappa Alpha (ΑΚΑ) is a Greek-lettered sorority, the first established by African-American college women.

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Alpha Phi Alpha

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. (ΑΦΑ) is the first African-American, intercollegiate Greek-lettered fraternity.

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American Association of State Colleges and Universities

The American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) is an organization of state-supported colleges and universities that offer degree programs leading to bachelor's, master's or doctoral degrees.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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American Council on Education

The American Council on Education (ACE) is a U.S. higher education organization established in 1918.

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American Midwest Conference

The American Midwest Conference (AMC) is a NAIA college athletic conference with 13 member institutions located in Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri and Tennessee in the United States.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams who take turns batting and fielding.

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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport played on a rectangular court.

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Bobby McFerrin

Robert Keith "Bobby" McFerrin Jr. (born March 14, 1950) is an American jazz vocalist and conductor.

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Cheerleading

Cheerleading is an activity wherein the participants (referred to as "cheerleaders") cheer for their team as a form of encouragement.

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Cheri Bustos

Cheryl Lea Bustos (née Callahan; born October 17, 1961) is an American journalist, healthcare executive, and politician who has served as the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 17th congressional district since 2013.

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Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges

The Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC) is a consortium of 30 public colleges and universities in 28 states and one Canadian province.

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Cross country running

Cross country running is a sport in which teams and individuals run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain such as dirt or grass.

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Dana Perino

Dana Marie PerinoThe Five, March 10, 2014 https://archive.org/details/FOXNEWSW_20140310_210000_The_Five#start/3540/end/3600 (born May 9, 1972) is an American political commentator and author who served as the 26th White House Press Secretary, serving under President George W. Bush from September 14, 2007, to January 20, 2009.

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Delta Kappa Epsilon

Delta Kappa Epsilon (ΔΚΕ), commonly known as DKE or Deke, is one of the oldest North American fraternities, with 56 active chapters across America and Canada.

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Delta Sigma Theta

Delta Sigma Theta (ΔΣΘ; sometimes abbreviated Deltas or DST) is a Greek-lettered sorority of college-educated women dedicated to public service with an emphasis on programs that target the African American community.

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Elgie Sims

Elgie R. Sims, Jr. is the Illinois state Senator for the 17th district.

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Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, or simply Emmy, is an American award that recognizes excellence in the television industry, and is the equivalent of an Academy Award (for film), the Tony Award (for theater), and the Grammy Award (for music).

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George W. Bush

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

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Golf

Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.

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Gordon S. Heddell

Gordon S. Heddell (born August 13, 1943, in St Louis) is a former Inspector General (IG) of the United States Department of Defense.

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Governor of Illinois

The Governor of Illinois is the chief executive of the State of Illinois and the various agencies and departments over which the officer has jurisdiction, as prescribed in the state constitution.

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Graduate school

A graduate school (sometimes shortened as grad school) is a school that awards advanced academic degrees (i.e. master's and doctoral degrees) with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous undergraduate (bachelor's) degree with a high grade point average.

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Great Lakes Valley Conference

The Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)'s Division II level.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Illinois General Assembly

The Illinois General Assembly is the bicameral legislature of the U.S. state of Illinois and comprises the Illinois House of Representatives and the Illinois Senate.

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Illinois House of Representatives

The Illinois House of Representatives is the lower house of the Illinois General Assembly, the bicameral legislature of the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Illinois Senate

The Illinois Senate is the upper chamber of the Illinois General Assembly, the legislative branch of the government of the state of Illinois in the United States.

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Illinois State University

Illinois State University (ISU) is a public university in Normal, Illinois.

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Jim Edgar

James Edgar (born July 22, 1946) is an American politician who was the 38th Governor of Illinois from 1991 to 1999.

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Jim Langfelder

James O. Langfelder is the Democratic mayor of Springfield, Illinois, the state capital and seat of Sangamon County.

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Karen Hasara

Karen Hasara is a Republican member of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees and a past member of the Illinois General Assembly (1986-1995) as well as the Mayor of Springfield, Illinois for two terms from 1995-2003.

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Kimberly A. Lightford

Kimberly Lightford (born May 10, 1968) is a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 4th district since 1998.

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Lake Springfield

Lake Springfield is a reservoir on the southeast edge of the city of Springfield, Illinois.

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Land-grant university

A land-grant university (also called land-grant college or land-grant institution) is an institution of higher education in the United States designated by a state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890.

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Liberal arts college

A liberal arts college is a college with an emphasis on undergraduate study in the liberal arts and sciences.

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Lincoln Land Community College

Lincoln Land Community College is a community college in Springfield, Illinois, United States.

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Lincoln Prize

The Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, endowed by Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman and administered by Gettysburg College, has been awarded annually since 1991 for the best non-fiction historical work of the year on the American Civil War.

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List of concert halls

A concert hall is a cultural building with a stage that serves as a performance venue and an auditorium filled with seats.

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Michael Burlingame (historian)

Michael Burlingame is an American historian, noted for his works on Abraham Lincoln.

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Milton J. Nieuwsma

Milton John Nieuwsma (pronounced "news-ma") (born September 5 1941) is an American writer, journalist and filmmaker noted for his work on the Holocaust.

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Mr. Mudd

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National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) is an athletic association that organizes college and university-level athletic programs, primarily across the United States but also outside the US.

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National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a non-profit organization which regulates athletes of 1,281 institutions and conferences.

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NCAA Division II

Division II is an intermediate-level division of competition in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

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Northern Illinois University

Northern Illinois University (NIU) is a public research university in DeKalb, Illinois, United States, with satellite centers in Chicago, Hoffman Estates, Naperville, Rockford, and Oregon.

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Online Learning Consortium

The Online Learning Consortium, formerly called the Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C), is an institutional and professional leadership organization dedicated to integrating online education into the mainstream of higher education.

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Paul Simon (politician)

Paul Martin Simon (November 29, 1928 – December 9, 2003) was an American author and politician from Illinois.

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Performing arts

Performing arts are a form of art in which artists use their voices or bodies, often in relation to other objects, to convey artistic expression.

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Phi Beta Sigma

Phi Beta Sigma (ΦΒΣ) is a social/service collegiate and professional fraternity founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C. on January 9, 1914, by three young African-American male students with nine other Howard students as charter members.

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Phi Kappa Tau

Phi Kappa Tau (ΦΚΤ), commonly known as Phi Tau, is a collegiate fraternity located in the United States.

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Phillip S. Paludan

Phillip Shaw Paludan, (January 26, 1938 – August 1, 2007) was a professor of Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois, Springfield, and a leading authority on the life and presidency of Abraham Lincoln.

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Professor

Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries.

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Public administration

Public Administration is the implementation of government policy and also an academic discipline that studies this implementation and prepares civil servants for working in the public service.

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Public university

A public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private universities.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.

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Richard B. Ogilvie

Richard Buell Ogilvie (February 22, 1923 – May 10, 1988) was the 35th governor of Illinois and served from 1969 to 1973.

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Richard Oruche

Richard Dean Oruche (born August 30, 1987) is an American professional basketball player of Nigerian descent.

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Richard Osborne

Richard Osborne (born 16 June 1964) is a retired Australian rules footballer who enjoyed a lengthy career in the VFL/AFL.

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Sangamon Auditorium

Sangamon Auditorium is a 2,018-seat concert hall and performing arts center located in Springfield, Illinois, on the campus of the University of Illinois at Springfield.

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Sigma Lambda Beta

Sigma Lambda Beta (ΣΛΒ) (known as Lambda Betas) is the largest historically Latino based fraternity in the United States, established with multicultural membership.

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Social criticism

The term social criticism often refers to a mode of criticism that locates the reasons for malicious conditions in a society considered to be in a flawed social structure.

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Softball

Softball is a variant of baseball played with a larger ball (11 in. to 12 in. sized ball) on a smaller field.

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Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Southern Illinois University (known colloquially as SIU or SIU Carbondale) is a public research university located in Carbondale, Illinois, United States.

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Springfield, Illinois

Springfield is the capital of the U.S. state of Illinois and the county seat of Sangamon County.

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Strawbridge-Shepherd House

The Strawbridge-Shepherd House is a historic house located at 5255 Shepherd Road in Springfield, Illinois.

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Tennis

Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).

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The Lincoln Academy of Illinois

The Lincoln Academy of Illinois is a not-for-profit and non-partisan organization dedicated to recognizing contributions made by living Illinoisans.

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Thom Serafin

Thom Serafin is a public affairs consultant specializing in politics and media.

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Timothy Davlin

Timothy J. Davlin (August 27, 1957 – December 14, 2010) was the mayor of the U.S. city of Springfield, Illinois, from April 2003 until his suicide in December 2010 at age 53.

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Timothy Killeen (academic)

Timothy Laurence Killeen is a geophysicist space scientist, professor, and administrator.

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Track and field

Track and field is a sport which includes athletic contests established on the skills of running, jumping, and throwing.

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U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report is an American media company that publishes news, opinion, consumer advice, rankings, and analysis.

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UIS Prairie Stars

The UIS Prairie Stars (also Illinois–Springfield Prairie Stars and formerly Sangamon State) are the athletic teams that represent the University of Illinois at Springfield, located in Springfield, Illinois, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sports.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Department of Defense

The Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government of the United States charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government concerned directly with national security and the United States Armed Forces.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.

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University of Colorado Boulder

The University of Colorado Boulder (commonly referred to as CU or Colorado) is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado, United States.

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University of Illinois at Chicago

The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is a public research university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

The University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (also known as U of I, Illinois, or colloquially as the University of Illinois or UIUC) is a public research university in the U.S. state of Illinois and the flagship institution of the University of Illinois System.

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University of Illinois system

The University of Illinois System is a system of public universities in Illinois consisting of three universities: Chicago, Springfield, and Urbana–Champaign.

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Upper division college

An upper division college is a type of educational institution that traces its roots to educational ideas put forward in the late 19th and early 20th century.

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Vince Demuzio

Vince Demuzio (May 7, 1941 – April 27, 2004) was a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate from January 1975 until his death in April 2004.

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Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net.

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Ward Churchill

Ward LeRoy Churchill (born 1947) is an author and political activist.

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WUIS

WUIS (91.9 FM), is a National Public Radio-affiliated station in Springfield, Illinois, United States.

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Zeta Phi Beta

Zeta Phi Beta (ΖΦΒ) is an international, historically black Greek-lettered sorority.

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References

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