Join the ISU Aggies at the Farm Progress Show

Please join Illinois State University’s Department of Agriculture at the Farm Progress Show this fall. The department will be hosting a tent, and alumni and friends are invited to stop by and visit.

Upcoming Fall 2015 School of IT events

Fall 2015 is full of activities in the School of Information Technology, including many opportunities for alumni and friends to interact with students and others.

Hood and Hunt redefine principal preparation

In July 2014, Erika Hunt and Lisa Hood went to Washington, D.C., with former State Superintendent Chris Koch and IBHE Director James Applegate and former Director Harry Berman to accept the 2014 Frank Newman Award for State Innovation at the Education Commission of the States conference on behalf of the state of Illinois for the work around the new P–12 Principal Endorsement. (left to right) Harry Berman, former executive director of the Illinois Board of Higher Education; Brian Sandoval, Utah governor and chair of the Education Commission of the States; Erika Hunt; James Applegate, executive director of the Illinois Board of Higher Education, and Chris Koch, former state superintendent of the Illinois State Board of Education.

Lisa Hood and Erika Hunt, senior policy analysts and researchers for the Center for the Study of Education Policy, are redefining leadership development in P–20 education.