On May 19, 1970, the Illinois State University campus reached a boiling point leading to what has become known as the “flagpole incident.”
Days of May: Inside the infamous flagpole standoff that put ISU on the brink
Publication: Features
Birthing dreams: Alumna achieves family, career success through surrogacy
Illinois State alumna Zara Griswold is in the business of creating families. The agency Griswold created with Staci Swiderski helps couples who cannot physically reproduce their own child navigate the expensive and legally complicated process of using gestational surrogacy with egg and sperm donation to have a baby.
Season of celebration: Unique ceremonies enrich graduation
As a transfer student, LaCrisha McAllister ’14 was struggling.
Full speed ahead: Alumnus trades boardroom for car lot
All Dave Magers ever wanted to be was a car salesman. He loved classic and exotic cars and didn’t really care if he sold any.
Alumna fulfills life mission creating hospice care
As a young nurse, she didn’t understand why dying patients were kept at the end of the hallway with their doors closed.
Far from home: ISU through the eyes of an international student
Arafat Kabir, a 26-year-old who graduated in May with a master’s in political science, writes about his time at Illinois State University.
Pum-King: Passionate pursuit reaps rewards
To say Mac Condill’s life’s work started with a seed would be trite but true.
History in her hands: Alumna collects, protects national treasures
The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s mission is succinct: Understanding the natural world and our place in it. The complication comes in putting this far from simplistic plan into practice, as Deborah Hull-Walski knows all too well.
Inside look: Meat science lab
A lab in the Ropp Agriculture Building processes meat for the purpose of research and teaching, according to Justin Rickard, assistant professor of animal and meat science.
Power of one: Alumna invests in future generation
Much has changed in education since Donna Bessant received her elementary ed degree from Illinois State Normal University in 1962.
