Illinois State University granted 1,020 baccalaureate degrees and 332 graduate degrees December 14 during winter commencement.
Winter commencement 2024 recap: Your best photos and posts
Topic: Graduating Redbirds
Graduating Redbirds: Inspired by her nurses, heart recipient charts new path for helping others
Elle Wilkinson is graduating with her bachelor’s degree in communication sciences and disorders. Her plan was to help people who have disorders of speech, language, and fluency, but life took a big turn, and Wilkinson decided to lean into it.
Graduating Redbirds: Costuming graduate student finds support and community on campus
When Billy Blue ’21 began his undergraduate degree at Illinois State University, he never imagined graduate school as a possibility. This December, he will earn a Master of Fine Arts in theatre and costume design.
Graduating Redbirds: First advanced marketing analytics accelerated sequence graduate earns two degrees and a job
Emma Koesser is making history this December as the first student to graduate from Illinois State University’s advanced marketing analytics accelerated sequence with a Master of Science in Marketing Analytics.
Graduating Redbirds: Bone Scholar arrived a ‘teenager,’ leaving an ‘adult’
Jayden Wilburn-Johnson is among the Redbirds graduating this December.
Graduating Redbirds: Music education major, a first-generation college graduate, is ready to inspire her students
Valeska Carrillo takes special pride in being the first in her family to earn a college degree. Raised in Aurora by parents who came to the U.S. from Mexico, she always dreamed of going to college.
Class notes: Winter 2025
Keep up with what fellow alumni are doing in our class notes for the winter 2025 alumni magazine issue.
Fall 2024 Sociology graduate program news and updates
The master’s degree in sociology shares its latest news and updates.
School of Teaching and Learning graduates stand out among the class of 2024
Elementary education was the top major among Illinois State University graduates in May, with 226 students earning their bachelor’s degree. A total of 347 bachelor’s degrees and 37 master’s degrees were awarded in the School of Teaching and Learning.
Early Childhood Education Faculty Preparation grant supports Illinois teachers in pursuit of a Master’s degree
Early childhood professor Dr. Miranda Lin was awarded a grant of more than $910,000 by the Illinois Board of Higher Education to support the ongoing education of early childhood teachers. The first cohort will graduate in August with a master’s degree after completing the 15-month online grant-funded program.
