Introduction to Always Illinois
ILLINOIS is on the cutting edge of alumni relations with a new, free, online community exclusively for you – our alumni and students, faculty and staff. Always Illinois empowers you to maintain lifelong relationships, to network within the ILLINOIS family in a secure global community, and to stay connected with the campus, your college, department, and student or alumni organizations.
Always Illinois provides a culture of connectivity for the entire ILLINOIS family! It's like an ILLINOIS version of Facebook or MySpace with the added security and privacy you deserve.
Always Illinois is a trusted and secure online forum where thousands of members of the Illinois family can build and maintain personal and professional connections.
Unlike online social networks that are open to the general public, Always Illinois is a private and secure network that requires identity verification before users can join. Unique, one-time Always Illinois identification numbers are available at the time of online registration. Once registered, users create their own password for all future logins.
Always Illinois facilitates expanded career networking opportunities for ILLINOIS alumni and students, and offers online forums to ask and offer advice, find a place to live, or post a job exclusively to the ILLINOIS family.
Always Illinois is driven by you. Once on the network, you can join customized groups for your class year and degree-granting unit, your geographic location, student organizations, professional organizations…the possibilities are practically endless! Communicate through messaging, photo albums and blogs, and use the search capability to find other alumni who share common interests, acquaintances, professions, locations, and more.
First, create a profile. Then invite friends and colleagues to join your network or become your friend. Once you create your network, you are also linked to the networks of all the people you know, exponentially increasing the power of the ILLINOIS network. You'll be surprised at how many people you have a connection to—it's like a customized version of six degrees of separation!
Always Illinois is a service provided by the Office of the Chancellor in partnership with the University of Illinois Alumni Association, the Office of Institutional Advancement, Public Affairs, and CITES.