The fifth annual Birds Give Back, Illinois State University’s day of giving, will be Thursday, February 23, during Redbird Philanthropy Week with a goal to receive 3,000 gifts in support of Redbird initiatives.
Thousands of miles from the epicenter of an earthquake that has devastated parts of Turkey and Syria, emotional aftershocks are being felt in places as far away as Illinois State University’s campus.
Hear about Illinois State University faculty/staff who are living the value of civic engagement through their leadership in community organizations. Changing the lives of others while also changing themselves.
Tyler Clark ’09 has been trying to impact communities and people’s lives through public service and affairs since he was a student at Illinois State University.
Lizzy Carroll ’17 hated high school. Her attendance was dismal, and she felt completely unmotivated to try. But then, two educators personally connected with Carroll during her junior year at Carl Sandburg High School in southwest suburban Chicago, and everything changed. “They took a genuine interest in what I liked to do, why I wasn’t
When you think of winter break, you probably don’t associate it with working on community development and service projects in Costa Rica. But for 14 Illinois State University students and one faculty advisor, this is exactly how they spent a portion of their time between semesters.
Redbird Impact named Archana Shekara the spring 2023 Campus Hero for her work as creative director of Design Streak Studio, a research-based social innovation lab that focuses on human-centered service design.
Larkin Receives University Distinguished Service Award
From Central Illinois cornfields to southwestern copper mines and the Warrior Met Coal strike in Alabama, Dr. Ericka Wills’ life journey weaves together current labor struggles and women’s roles in those efforts.
As the new year began, the National Center for Urban Education (NCUE) welcomed our spring 2023 cohort of student teachers to Chicago. What makes this cohort of nine students special is that the majority (six of the nine) attended Chicago Public Schools (CPS) themselves.
