Dr. Rachel E. Smith and the School of Kinesiology and Recreation have launched a new mentoring initiative to help prepare Therapeutic Recreation (TR) students for important milestones in their senior year — internships and the national certification exam. After the first year of the program, both mentors and mentees report great experiences in the program.
A winter storm that began Tuesday night and continued well into Thursday transformed Illinois State’s campus into something resembling the setting of the Hoth sequence in Star Wars or the animated film Frozen, depending on your movie metaphor of choice.
The fourth annual Birds Give Back, Illinois State’s own giving day, will be held on Thursday, February 24, during ISU’s Redbird Philanthropy Week scheduled from February 21-25.
With Illinois State’s Founding Celebration right around the corner, we spoke with University Archivist April Anderson-Zorn to learn more about how Illinois State’s founding traditions have changed over the past 165 years.
linois State student-athletes continue to excel in the classroom despite the academic challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, as they posted a semester departmental grade-point average (GPA) of 3.31 during the Fall 2021 semester, as announced by Assistant Athletics Director for Academics and Life Skills Joe Klausner on Thursday.