Selman and Turner to give African American Studies Fall Lecture

Drs. Kaitlyn Selman and Justin Turner will deliver their talk, Razing the “House of Screams:” Teaching, Learning, and Living the Reparations Won Curriculum, as part of the African American Studies Fall Speaker Series. Selman and Turner will critically examine the Reparations Won: A Case Study in Police Torture, Racism, and the Movement for Justice in Chicago curriculum.

Scholarship honors past, opens doors in the College of Engineering

When donor Todd Garrison ’85, ’90, talks about his decision to create a scholarship for future engineering students, he knows the story is not just his own. Garrison comes from a family elevated through education. It’s this history that fuels his desire to expand access to engineering education at Illinois State University.

Pekin PDS program cultivates powerful professional learning 

College students sit around two tables in a classroom having discussions

The Professional Development Schools (PDS) program offers student teachers a unique opportunity to experience a full year at one placement. The Pekin PDS site specifically has a 25-year history of welcoming interns into their community and sharing their commitment to professional learning. 

AP/CS Council merger: External representation

Schroeder Hall in the fall

Perhaps the most important function of the Staff Council is its role in shared governance at Illinois State. The CS and A/P Councils provide representatives for many university groups and committees so that staff make their voices heard. One of the core justifications for the merger is to produce a stronger, more unified staff voice in these venues. We now turn to where and how that voice is exercised.

CAS Distinguished Lecturer: Dr. Jeffrey Wagman

Dr. Jeffrey Wagman

Dr. Jeff Wagman, 2024-25 CAS Distinguished Lecturer, will give his talk, “An Ecological Approach to Perception by Touch (from Head to Toe),” in the Circus Room, Bone Student Center, on Monday, October 21, at 3:30 p.m.