Category: Colleges

Walking across the campus today, it’s hard to envision the undeveloped vista encountered by Illinois State University’s founders. Even more sobering is the scope of their task as they created the first state university in Illinois, shaping not just a curriculum but physical structures where it would be taught. When the University opened its doors

Student teaching is the concluding part of the undergraduate educational experience during which students who wish to become teachers take what they learned in the classroom and put it to the test.  Students find out, among other things, if they can create lesson plans that work, if they can impart knowledge to a classroom of

(August 24, 2007) The College of Education was recently notified of a marvelous anonymous $25,000 estate gift from an alumna, who received her bachelor’s degree in elementary education in 1950 and her master’s degree in educational administration and foundations in 1954. A former regional superintendent for the Illinois State Board of Education, this person’s entire

(August 20, 2007) During the annual meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough praised Illinois State University for requiring future teachers to have a subject major outside of education. During his presentation, he warned that students in this country are growing up historically illiterate. He told the group that a key

(August , 2007) Several members of the ISU Student Education Association attended the National Education Association Student Conference this summer in Philadelphia, Penn., where they participated in leadership training, membership workshops, and regional caucus meetings. During the conference, the National Education Association presented the ISU chapter with the Outstanding Local Excellence with More Than 200

“When it seemed that nothing I was writing was correct, and I would never complete my thesis, John Baldwin was there to offer direction,” said Diane Meister ’87, M.S. ’05.  “I had no intention of teaching or pursuing further degrees, yet he still challenged me to view my research as beneficial to others and gave

Although she taught home economics for only two years before she married and started a family, and was a substitute teacher for two years after her daughters were older, Mary Crane has used her Illinois State Normal University education in many ways throughout her life. In 2004, she established the Mary (Scheeler) Crane Family and

(July 25, 2007) Emma Savage-Davis, ’95 Ed.D., has been elected to The Association of Teacher Educators’ (ATE) Board of Directors. Savage-Davis, director, Center, Education and Community, Coastal Carolina University, will join the board as College-University Representative. The following biography appeared in the Spring 2007 ATE newsletter: Emma Savage-Davis has ten years of teaching experience in

(June 28, 2007) Ben Lachman announced that The Ronald and Mary Ann Lachman Foundation will donate $100,000 to help fund a five-year grant project in the Special Education Department. The project will help deaf education teacher candidates to develop skills in teaching a speech-oriented communication technique called “cued speech.” Illinois State is the only public

Illinois State University’s Board of Trustees recently approved a doctoral program for Mennonite College of Nursing.  The nation is facing a critical shortage in nurses, and one underlying factor is the lack of Ph.D. nurses to educate those who want to become nurses.  The Illinois State University Ph.D. program will join 108 U.S. programs addressing