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Volume 21 • Number 2 • Fall 2020

Healing on a high note
Brett Gillan ’02, MBA ’08 talks about his experience at Illinois State and how it formed a unique path for his future.

Power of the provost
The academic component of the University experience is the most essential as it leads to graduation, yet it is rarely contemplated beyond the micro level.

Prescribed intervention
Mark Pelletier anticipated a rewarding career helping others in health care when he left Mennonite College of Nursing as one of few male graduates in 1981.

Fulfilling a dream
When Sandra Torres ’06 was 13 and spoke no English, her family packed up their life in their native Colombia and immigrated to the Chicago area for new opportunities.