Category: Alumni

Please read this first item and take part in a very important survey. Your opinion will help shape future e-mail sent to you. Now that the E-lumni News, at 18 months old, has reached the toddler stage, we’d like to know what you think of it and how it can be improved. In addition, as

Students, faculty, staff members, and alumni are being asked to help update Illinois State University’s strategic plan, “Educating Illinois.” Created by the University community in 2000, Educating Illinois is the University’s action plan for distinctiveness and excellence. The plan, based on five core values and containing 15 goals with 79 action items, has been receiving

In response to our call for your “words of wisdom” to give some good starting-your-life advice to our newest graduates, more than 40 of you wrote in to share your thoughts. Here is just a sampling: “What I wish someone had told me was: It is VITALLY important to contribute to your 401K, 403b, and/or

* Decorating Contest for Homes, Businesses It’s the return of a tradition that began on the ISNU campus in 1927 — the Homecoming Decoration Contest! Alumni — wherever they live — are invited to join faculty/staff and campus departments in showing their Redbird pride and helping to put the campus and community in the Homecoming

Interest rates are at some all-time lows! To help alumni take advantage of the falling interest rates for their student loans, the Illinois State University Alumni Association has teamed with Nelnet to offer student loan consolidation. Borrowers who choose to consolidate can lock in this year’s unprecedented low rate for the entire life of the

Illinois State is the most recent major university to join Lands’ End’s “alumni collection” program, where customers can purchase items with their favorite college or university’s logo on it. No matter where you live, you can now purchase high-quality items with the Redbird logo, either in the Lands’ End catalog or online. Items from Lands’

Beginning September 1, Illinois State University and the Bloomington-Normal Public Transit System began offering Universal Access to riders showing an Illinois State student or faculty-staff ID. In addition, bus service times and routes have been expanded specifically to meet student needs. According to Marabeth Clapp, assistant vice president of Business Services, “Our goal in establishing

After years of planning, playing ‘musical offices’ around campus this summer, and some nerve-wracking last-minute hold-ups on state funding, the rehabilitation of Schroeder Hall is now well under way. Home to the Criminal Justice Sciences, History, Politics & Government, and Sociology & Anthropology departments and one of the largest classroom buildings on campus, Schroeder will

QUESTION: Hi, Alumni Services. I just graduated in May and I am wondering if I get to keep my ISU E-mail address? Can I get free E-mail as an alum? — Carolyn L. ’03, Chicago ANSWER: Congratulations, Carolyn, and welcome! For new alumni, the University will allow you access to your student E-mail account for

In our last issue of the E-LUMNI NEWS, we announced the launch of the all-new and improved Alumni Web site (www.IllinoisState.edu/alumni). We encouraged you to register on the site, look at the new features, and have some fun looking up old friends in the Online Directory. And you responded! A few facts: — Of the