Dr. R. David Edmunds is a well-known and trusted expert in Native American ethnohistory, a status he’s acquired through more than a half century of teaching and scholarship.
Topic: Diversity
NCUE teachers new to Chicago Public Schools kick off the school year
This past August, many recent graduates kicked off the school year as new teachers in Chicago. We are highlighting three of these #edbirds as we checked in this fall to see how the 2022-23 school year is going so far.
Connecting ISU faculty, staff, students to community-integrated urban education
One of the primary goals of the National Center for Urban Education (NCUE) is to prepare preservice teachers to teach in urban settings.
Chicago Public School students attend the 2022 ISU Future Teacher Conference
Illinois State University College of Education (COE) hosted its fourth annual Future Teacher Conference on campus. This year, close to 1,100 high school students and 150 education personnel from over 30 Illinois school districts participated in various workshops throughout the day.
Queer Coalition Lunch ‘n Learn to focus on queering natural spaces
The next Queer Coalition Lunch ‘n Learn will be November 14 at the Multicultural Center. Dr. Eric Godby will lead the discusion on queering natural spaces.
Athletics hosting Pride Night at volleyball game, October 28
Illinois State Athletics will host its annual Pride Night on Friday, October 28, at the Redbird Volleyball match against Missouri State.
Hostile Terrain art exhibition, November 1-4
Hostile Terrain is a participatory art exhibition organized by the Undocumented Migration Project that will run November 1-4. The exhibit aims to illuminate the humanitarian crisis of all the lives lost at the United States’ border.
Broadway, film star Lauren Ridloff to headline cultural dinner, ticket deadline November 4
Tickets are available for University Housing’s Latino and Disability Awareness Cultural Dinner on November 10 with actor Lauren Ridloff. Deadline for buying tickets is November 4.
Latinx Alumni Network president works toward ‘creating a new legacy’
A succinct but apt description of the professional career thus far of Simon Rodriguez Jr. ’13 might read: “In service to others.”
Pronouns: Small words with big impact
Today, more than three percent of incoming college students use pronouns other than she/her or he/him. Although this statistic may seem small, this percentage represents nearly 37,000 students during the 2022-2023 school year.