The Greg Gulick Service Excellence Award is awarded annually to two IT professionals at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The award honors IT professionals who exemplify Greg’s values and commitment to collaboration and servant leadership. The nomination form is now open through 5 p.m. Monday, May 5. You may nominate more than one individual, including prior nominees, but self-nominations will not be accepted. 

The Michael L. Jeffries, Sr. Center for Access and Academic Success is excited to share the eleventh edition of our newsletter, The Advocate. This edition covers all the exciting things the Jeffries Center has been up to for Spring 2025 including: "News Bites" from our federal TRIO programs, Advising & Mentoring, First-Generation Student Initiatives, and more! The Jeffries Center is also excited to highlight our 2025 Mom's Day Scholastic Awards Ceremony recipients and Graduating Senior Highlights! View the Spring 2025 edition of The Advocate.

Campus Recreation is offering Faculty/Staff Free Day on Thursday, May 1. Gain FREE day access to the ARC and CRCE to get in your favorite workout, tour the state-of-the-art facility, and learn about the benefits of becoming a Campus Rec member.

Celebrate the Chez Veterans Center’s 10th Anniversary and the end of the academic year with us! We’ll honor military-connected students, recognize graduates and scholarship recipients, dedicate our newly named kitchen and thank the supporters who make our mission possible. Food will be provided.

Maria L. Wisdom will be speaking on Mentoring Like A Coach: Helping Mentees Grow through Complexity and Change. In this lively, interactive talk, we’ll discuss the difference between mentoring and coaching, how coaching supports learning and growth, and the applicability of professional coaching techniques to complex mentoring situations. How might mentoring “like a coach” challenge some of your fundamental assumptions about mentoring? And what coaching tools and concepts can you begin using with your mentees right away? Open to faculty, staff and students.

You are invited to the Career Services Conference 2025: Collaboration, Community and Career Belonging from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. May 21, at the Illini Union. Join colleagues to explore ways to create a welcoming and inclusive career experience for students, partners and employers through roundtable discussions, breakout sessions and panel discussions featuring students and employers. Click here to learn more and to register. Registration closes on May 7.

The Courtyard Café is excited to partner with the traveling comedy group based out of Champaign-Urbana, C-U Comedy Club, to bring a night of fun and laughter to the Illini Union! Student org, Phoenix Improv Company, will open the show, followed by three entertaining comics, and finishing with headliner, Winston Hodges from Washington, DC. Don't miss the last Friday Funnies of the semester!

Submit a self-nomination by May 2 at 11:59 p.m. to become a facilitator with the Survive, Thrive & Lead training team. Employee Learning & Organizational Effectiveness (ELOE) will be adding four new peer facilitators to the Survive, Thrive & Lead team. This is a new leadership development program which emphasizes the value of peer learning. The overall goal of the program is to collaborate with and prepare a cohort of individuals to create and deliver a workshop to campus peers.

Staff members from the Office of Student Conflict Resolution and the Connie Frank CARE Center have created a training for offices to support students and co-workers living with neurodivergence. For more information email Liz Wilder (lizw24@illinois.edu) or Caitlin Kay (Ckay8748@illinois.edu) or give them a call at 217.333.0050.