UIC Student Affairs Annual Report FY 2022

Learners Success initiative of the Coalition of
Urban Serving Universities within the Association
of Public & Land-grant Universities. The grant
will fund the Adult Learners Professional and
Leadership Development Program, a pipeline
program led by Career Services and High
Impact Student Engagement that partners with
City Colleges of Chicago, particularly Harold
Washington College, to ensure Adult Learners
transfer well into UIC and are supported while
studying at UIC.
The Office of Testing Services became a fully
funded test site for the CLEP Defense Activity for
Non-Traditional Education Support (DANTES)
program. As a result of expanding to a DANTES
test site, OTS will provide UIC service members
as well as service members in the community
with the opportunity to gain credit in subjects in
which they are proficient and eligible to receive
college credit without the additional expense of
a test administration fee. It is anticipated that
this program will be implemented in the coming
year and provide an increase in our CLEP testing
numbers and test revenue. In May 2022, the Office
of Testing Services became a Pearson VUE test
site administering the Illinois Evaluations Systems
Exams to College of Education students.
Venues and Events hosted 11 concerts
showcasing a variety of genres (Hip/Hop,
Alternative Rock, Dance, Comedy) and six of
the eleven sold out. For both Katt Williams in
November and Tom Segura in April after the first
show sold-out, they offered a second show that
nearly sold out for both artists.
Flames Internship
Grant
In late 2020, now former Vice Chancellor for Student
Affairs J. Rex Tolliver charged Career Services Executive
Director Jean Riordan, High Impact Student Engagement
Director Allen Womble, and Assistant Vice Chancellor
for Assessment & Planning Sue Farruggia with creating
a program that provides grants to students engaged in
unpaid internships.
Their efforts ultimately resulted in the Flames Internship
Grant (FIG) program that launched in Fall 2021. FIG
recipients receive up to $2,500 in a semester to support
their unpaid internship experience. Students also
participate in career development programming throughout
the semester and present on the meaning of their
internship experience at UIC Impact Day.
According to Riordan, “the marquee piece of the program
is the funding of non-paid internships. Many students
must pass on internship opportunities because they come
without financial compensation.”
In its first year, with funding from the Office of the Vice
Chancellor for Student Affairs and from the Office of the
Chancellor, the Flames Internship Grant Program awarded
grants to 78 out of 178 student applicants. Recipients were
selected through a highly competitive process, with staff
from both student affairs and academic affairs serving on
the selection committee and recipients represented myriad
academic disciplines and demographics.
The FIG program will continue to be supported by
an allocation of funds from an endowment from the
MacKenzie Scott Foundation.
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2022 ANNUAL REPORT