Join the ISU Aggies at the Farm Progress Show

Please join Illinois State University’s Department of Agriculture at the Farm Progress Show this fall. The department will be hosting a tent, and alumni and friends are invited to stop by and visit.

ISU’s cybersecurity education center receives national Academic Excellence award

Presentation of Center of Academic Excellence award

Doug Twitchell, associate professor in the School of Information Technology and director of the Center for Information Assurance and Security Education (CIASE), and Mary Elaine Califf, director of the School of Information Technology, accepted the Center of Academic Excellence award at the Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education 2015 conference.

Upcoming Fall 2015 School of IT events

Fall 2015 is full of activities in the School of Information Technology, including many opportunities for alumni and friends to interact with students and others.

Hood and Hunt redefine principal preparation

In July 2014, Erika Hunt and Lisa Hood went to Washington, D.C., with former State Superintendent Chris Koch and IBHE Director James Applegate and former Director Harry Berman to accept the 2014 Frank Newman Award for State Innovation at the Education Commission of the States conference on behalf of the state of Illinois for the work around the new P–12 Principal Endorsement. (left to right) Harry Berman, former executive director of the Illinois Board of Higher Education; Brian Sandoval, Utah governor and chair of the Education Commission of the States; Erika Hunt; James Applegate, executive director of the Illinois Board of Higher Education, and Chris Koch, former state superintendent of the Illinois State Board of Education.

Lisa Hood and Erika Hunt, senior policy analysts and researchers for the Center for the Study of Education Policy, are redefining leadership development in P–20 education.

Back[story] of the Bird

From the Fighting Pedagogs to the Cardinals to the Redbirds—join Archivist April Anderson and Reggie at Milner Library Plaza on October 23 for a lesson in the history of Illinois State’s mascot.

College of Education Fall Faculty and Staff Meeting

DeGarmo Hall

TheCollege of Education’s 2015 Fall Faculty and Staff Meeting will take place on Thursday, August 13, 2015 from 8-9:30 a.m. (breakfast will be served at 7:30 a.m.) in the Brown Ballroom, BSC. All faculty and staff are encouraged to attend.