For Dr. Lin Lin, teaching Mandarin to Thomas Metcalf Laboratory School students is about more than grammar.
Endowments like yours expand students’ worlds
Topic: Giving
Asset manager: College of Business prepared State Farm CFO Jon Farney ’93
Jon Farney ’93 has served in leadership roles at State Farm for 30 years.
Endowments like yours support meaningful research
Rachel Wells graduated with a bachelor’s in communications and sciences disorders from Augustana College in 2005 before earning a master’s degree in speech-language pathology from Purdue University in 2007.
Endowments like yours provide access to curriculum-enhancing resources
When Camille Strode began her teaching career in Addison, she learned to be resourceful.
Endowments like yours recognize student achievement.
A group of Illinois State University alumni established the Fell Hall Friends, Class of 1961 Endowed Teaching Scholarship in 2009
Endowments like yours strengthen students’ career paths
“I appreciate the John and Kathy Rennick Accounting Scholarship because I am able to experience something my mother couldn’t,” said sophomore accounting student and Chicago native Armani Tubbs.
Endowments like yours reward student leaders
The Jack North Student Leadership Award was established in 2005 by the Illinois State University Campaign Steering Committee in honor of campaign chair Jack North.
Endowments like yours emphasize student involvement.
The MPW-Pay it Forward Business Scholarship was established by Ron Whitton ’80, Paul Koch ’80, Erick Miner ’78, Gary Ritchie ’83, Katie Hill-Gottesman ’01, and Nate Webb ’07 in 2015.
Endowments like yours give students access to the world
After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Susan Calderon and Nina Ford, professors from Illinois State’s Mennonite College of Nursing, traveled with 15 nursing students to Panama City, Panama in May 2022 as part of Illinois State’s transcultural nursing program.
Endowments like yours reward the University’s best and brightest
Established by the Illinois State University Foundation, the Robert G. Bone Scholarship is recognized as the highest-level award a student
can receive.
