Choose the Illinois State University podcast you wish to hear

Call them podcasts, audiocasts, Web-based audio broadcasts via an RSS feed or any other term you would like – Illinois State University has many for you to listen to at your leisure. There are podcasts for all interests, including Milner Library’s featured speakers, Media Relations expert faculty and the Oral History Project of Illinois State

Add an official Homecoming 2008 image to your e-mail signature

Homecoming 2008 is quickly approaching. Show your Redbird pride by adding an official Illinois State University Homecoming 2008 image to your e-mail signature. The instructions below guide Outlook users step-by-step through adding the logo to their e-mail signatures. If you are not an Outlook user, let us know what e-mail client you use. We will

Professionals train in Walker and Dunn-Barton halls prior to demolition

The now-decommissioned Walker and Dunn-Barton residence halls have seen their share of damage from students over the years. Chipped paint, broken light fixtures, the odd hole in the wall. However, during late May and early June, Walker and Dunn-Barton halls were trashed by real professionals. Firefighters and police officers used the buildings to practice emergency

Flessner family creates two new College of Business scholarships

Two new scholarships for students in Illinois State University’s College of Business have been made possible through the Flessner Family Endowed Scholarship Fund. The fund was recently established by Paul Flessner, a retired senior vice president at Microsoft and a 1981 graduate of Illinois State’s business information systems program. The Flessner Family Endowed Scholarship Fund

Order Homecoming 2008 shirts now

Get in the spirit and order your Homecoming 2008 apparel now. Minerva Sportswear will take shirt orders until Friday, Oct. 3. Orders may either be picked up on the dates and locations mentioned below or may also be shipped for your convenience. Pickup options include: Festival ISU on Thursday, Aug. 21, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Doors open on Illinois State University Alumni Center

Bulletin to Illinois State University’s 170,000 alumni: We have built “A Place for You!” That place is the long-awaited Illinois State University Alumni Center, located at 1101 N. Main Street in Normal. For most visiting alumni, it is now the first University building you will see after exiting Interstate 55 to Main Street. And what

Lasting Impressions

“Until I took a class with Raymond Clemens, I never realized how much more there was out there to learn,” said Kristi Dean ’06. “He teaches everyone who takes one of his courses to always look past the mainstream, always question and to look for more than what is put in front of you.” Dean

Kathleen Embry to lend expertise for Science and Technology Week

“I tell everyone that I am where I am today because I attended Illinois State University,” said Kathleen Embry. She added that her respect for Illinois State is one reason why she likes to donate her time and funds to the Family and Consumer Sciences (FSC) department, Alumni Relations and the College of Applied Science

Alumni Center dedication July 25

Illinois State University will dedicate its first Alumni Center on Friday, July 25, at 8:30 a.m. After the dedication, the Board of Trustees will hold their July meeting at the Alumni Center. Starting with the Illinois State University Board of Trustees’ approval to lease property from the Foundation’s limited liability corporations in October 2006, the

Black Colleagues Association honored at Chicago event

More than 100 people celebrated the 25-year history of the Illinois State University Black Colleagues Association at an event in Chicago at Navy Pier hosted by President Al Bowman and his wife, Linda.  Although the Association’s charter started in 1997, its roots go back to the 1980s when the group began working to connect African-American