WGSS hosts QueerTalks speaker series

ISU faculty, staff, students, and community members seated at a talk by Dr. Armen Álvarez.

During the Spring 2023 semester, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies organized four invited lectures as part of the WGSS speaker series.

The Richard A. Manahan Family Teaching Excellence Recognition Award rewards teaching excellence

Dr. Dianne Renn poses on the quad.

The Richard A. Manahan Family Teaching Excellence Recognition Award was created by Dr. Richard A. Manahan and family in 1984. The award is given to a full-time Department of Educational Administration and Foundations (EAF) faculty member to recognize significant teaching quality. The recipient’s quality to, “inspire students to achieve their full learning potential both in and outside of the classroom” is a desired requirement.

Learning from disruption

Jennifer Gill with students

As schools cautiously inch toward normalcy, there is no shortage of difficult questions being asked. Redbird Jennifer Gill fields many of them as the leader of Springfield School District 186, where she has served as superintendent since May 2014.

In memoriam: Remembering EAF founder Dr. Don Prince

Don Prince

The Illinois State community mourns the loss of Dr. Donald Prince, the visionary leader who almost single-handedly established the Department of Educational Administration and Foundations (EAF) in 1960.