Senior student-athletes were recognized in the spring. The 73 helped secure more than 580 victories, seven regular-season conference championships, six conference tournament championships and 12 postseason appearances during their time at ISU.
Christine Mitchell-Endsley, Ph.D. ’03, earned the 2016 Illinois School Psychologists Association Ted Smith Practitioner of the Year award.
There is new leadership within the Alumni Association following the annual meeting in June.
Education major Sam Alex ’07 has felt comfortable behind a microphone since his days as a public address announcer for ISU Athletics.
Accounting alum Justin Dearborn ’91 took on a new challenge this year as CEO of the Tribune Publishing Company, which owns the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and nine other major daily newspapers.
Each year Education Week profiles innovative school district leaders. Among the 13 chosen in 2016 is ISU College of Education graduate Julio Cesar Contreras ’01, who overcame obstacles to soar in education.
George Pruitt, a biology major and chemistry minor from Chicago, was at the epicenter of the traumatic events that rocked Illinois State University in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Illinois State’s summer orientation program was ahead of its time.
To continue the theme from the summer event in Chicago, this year’s Homecoming will be “A Normal Tradition.” Nominations are also being accepted for 2016 alumni king and queen and prince and princess.
Brian Hanc lives in a business world few can imagine.
