Our October Club Leaders Monthly Zoom Meeting will be hosted at 11:00 AM Central Time on Friday, October 28, 2022. As a friendly reminder, all monthly meetings will have a unique Zoom link/invitation moving forward.

To join the Zoom meeting, please click here (meeting ID is 879 6763 5853, pass code 792386).

Thank you for everything that your club and your leadership does for our beloved University. We look forward to reconnecting with you on October 28.

The University of Illinois Alumni Association is excited to welcome our Illini Club Leaders and Reynolds Society members back to campus for Homecoming 2022. For those of you who plan to arrive on Friday, October 14, the UIAA will host a reception at Aspen Tap House (2001 S Neil St, Champaign, IL 61820) from 3:00 PM until 5:00 PM. The UIAA will provide complimentary beverages (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) and food. The Homecoming Parade begins at 5:30 PM, so you will have plenty of time to travel from Aspen Tap House to your preferred viewing spot on the parade route (the parade map is available here).

We request that you please register for the reception by completing this form. We are looking to to seeing and hosting you on October 14!

If you have any questions, please contact Tyler Gagai at gagai@uillinois.edu.

The schedules for the 2022-23 men’s and women’s basketball seasons have been announced. Please click here for the men’s schedule and click here for the women’s schedule. The University of Illinois Alumni Association encourages your club to host gamewatch events to support our student-athletes and engage your alumni audience.

If you have any questions, please contact Tyler Gagai at gagai@uillinois.edu.

–The UIAA is excited to provide an additional level of support for Illini Clubs that host gamewatch events during the fall football season.

For clubs that are interested in participating in gamewatch program, UIAA will provide the following: –

• Signage for your event that includes a QR code for alumni to register/sign-in at the event –Club affiliation will be captured so we know who attended which event
• –Acrylic sign holder(s) for display at the event
• –All alumni and friends who sign-in will be entered into a weekly drawing to receive a “swag pack” courtesy of UIAA and Illinois Athletics, including a Bret Bielema signed football

–Gamewatch events will be eligible for an Athletics event credit.   If you plan to request reimbursement, please confirm with Tyler that you had alumni sign-in at your event.  We cannot process reimbursement requests without a confirmed attendance roster.

–Weekly winners and the hosting club will be highlighted on our social media platforms. Club leaders and gamewatch volunteers should encourage all attendees to sign-in at the event using the provided signage.

To confirm your clubs participation, please complete this form. Please complete this form no later than August 21, 2022. Your signage will be mailed on August 22.

At this time, this opportunity will be focused exclusively towards football gamewatch events. Any plans to expand this program for the upcoming 2022-23 men’s basketball season will be announced during the monthly club’s call and posted as an announcement on this website.

Thank you for your continued dedication to our beloved University and keeping loyal Illinois alumni connected through your clubs. If you have any questions, please contact Tyler Gagai at gagai@uillinois.edu.

The University of Illinois Alumni Association’s new clubs program (aka tier system) will launch on July 1, 2022.  Beginning on that date, domestic regional, affinity, and identity clubs may begin to participate in the tier system by following the established guidelines and leveraging the offered resources.  For those clubs who have already notified the UIAA of their intention to participate in this new clubs program, we thank you for being tremendous partners to our organization and we look forward to working with your club to expand your audience. 

For clubs who plan to participate, please notify Tyler Gagai at gagai@uillinois.edu of your club’s intention to participate.   Conversely, if your club has decided to not participate in this program, please notify Tyler of your club’s intention to opt-out.

If your club is located outside of the United States, please note that the UIAA is unable to extend tier system resources to your club at this time.  However, the UIAA does encourage international alumni clubs to utilize our events information resource as a means of gathering ideas for events that will reach different constituencies.

Thank you for everything that your club does for our beloved University. We look forward to working with you to connect Illini alumni from all walks of life.

Foremost, welcome to the Illini Club Leaders Resource Website!  Moving forward, this website will be updated regularly with announcements from the UIAA that may impact your club in addition to important information and news from the University.  We highly recommend that you bookmark this site as it will not be accessible from the main UIAA website. Any important updates will be highlighted as announcements (as you are reading now).   Please note announcements will include but not limited to the following:

• Updates and changes to tier system resources and guidelines
• University of Illinois athletic schedules as they become available (this includes all DIA sports)
• Special announcements from the UIAA
• Monthly UIAA Club Leaders Zoom Meeting information
• Information related to major on-campus events, such as Homecoming

It is our intention that this website serves as a means of keeping all our clubs updated with timely and relevant information and helps strengthen your connection to the UIAA and the University of Illinois. We hope that your club utilizes this website on a regular basis.