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    Date: 4/22/2025
    
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    Date: 4/15/2025
    Time: 12:30 PM
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    This Report provides an overview of our business operations, an analysis and update of our many programs/initiatives, and a brief description of our agency action plan.
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    Each university and agency covered by the State Universities Civil Service System is audited for compliance purposes once every two years.
  - Quarterly Employee Data
    The Quarterly Employee Data reports are a compilation of data submitted by the Agencies and Universities regarding Civil Service, PAA, and student employments.
  - Salary Range Report
    Approved salary rates and ranges for each authorized classification in use by Employers, compiled into a monthly report.
Rules/Procedures
- - Rules and Procedures
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    Procedures that manage all aspects of the classification plan, including the maintenance of written specifications and examination materials for each class title in the classification plan.
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Executive Director's Profile

Gail Schiesser was appointed Executive Director of the State Universities Civil Service System by the University Civil Service Merit Board on December 16, 2021. She served as Interim Executive Director from July 1, 2021, while continuing to carry out the duties of Legal Counsel for the agency – a position she held since April 2019.

Before entering service with the University System, Schiesser was engaged in private law practice, representing clients in the sale and acquisition of business and real estate interests. Schiesser also spent more than 15 years as a professional mediator, assisting small and large groups in creating solutions to burdensome disputes.

Schiesser is a graduate of Chicago Kent College of Law.