A Passion for Helping Others The
University of Illinois Springfield graduate student Vicente Valtierra ’11 LAS has a passion for helping other people. It’s that passion which led him to bring a national Hispanic Grassroots Leadership Development Program to UIS. “I got the students together, talked to both sides, the officials and students, got everything going and here we are,” said Valtierra.
UIS moves up in U.S. News & World Report college rankings
U.S. News & World Report’s 2013 edition of America’s Best Colleges ranked UIS second among public regional universities in the Midwest, a two-spot increase from a previous ranking in which UIS came in fourth. The rankings are based on key measures of quality including assessment by administrators at peer institutions, retention of students, faculty resources, student selectivity, financial resources and alumni giving.
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