Illinois State track & field and cross country senior Jake Gillum and women’s basketball redshirt sophomore Mary Crompton were announced as two of 14 Illinois State University students selected as a Robert G. Bone Scholar for the upcoming 2020-21 school year.
Year: 2020
Athletics welcomes student-athletes back to campus
Illinois State student-athletes have begun to return to campus as part of a return plan laid out by the ISU Athletics Department.
Four Redbirds named 2020 Preseason All-Americans by HERO Sports
A quartet of Illinois State football senior standouts head into their final year with preseason accolades, as Drew Himmelman, Romeo McKnight, Devin Taylor and Christian Uphoff were each named to the 2020 HERO Sports FCS Preseason All-America Team announced Thursday.
Athletics department GPA record topped once again
Illinois State student-athletes set a new semester departmental grade-point average (GPA) record of 3.61 during the Spring 2020 semester, topping the previous mark of 3.31 set during the Spring 2019 semester, and all but two teams beat their previous team GPA records in the latest grade report announced by Assistant Athletics Director for Academics and Life Skills Joe Klausner.
Alum Alert: Mary Jane Parker recalls time at Illinois State
Professor Sarah Smelser recently contacted Mary Jane Parker, Illinois State University printmaking alum, about her thoughts and memories of working at Normal Editions Workshop.
Housing to cover laundry expenses beginning in Fall 2020
Beginning in the fall 2020 semester, students will no longer pay to use washers and dryers as University Housing Services will absorb the daily cost of residential laundry.
Urban immersion
The National Center for Urban Education (NCUE) prepares future educators to thrive in diverse settings.
Environmental health interns work on COVID-19
Two environmental health students, Isabella Anderson and Kellsie Freeman, are currently working on their internship projects at the Will County Health Department.
A message from the Illinois State University Alumni Association Board of Directors
Recent events in our country serve as clear evidence that we are not doing enough to end acts of anti-blackness and racial hatred in the United States.
Leading a call: Recent grad creates memorial altar for women of color killed by law enforcement
In summer 2016, a group called Black Feminist Future began a movement across the country building altars in response to police killings of black women and girls.