President Larry Dietz announced a Redbirds Rising campaign challenge to more than 200 of Illinois State University’s loyal annual donors during the Loyalty Circle Breakfast on Founders Day.
The Mississippi River is indeed mighty. It flows south for over 2,300 miles from Lake Itasca, in northern Minnesota, to the Gulf of Mexico, making the ancient waterway one of the longest rivers in the world.
If you haven’t already noticed, Campus Recreation has been hard at work filming and producing a brand-new video series called Find Your Fit.
Last week Chicago Tonight featured alum Asia-Ana Williams during her first few days as a practicing teacher for Richards Career Academy in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood.
An elderly man approached a couple of students sitting in front of a sewing machine in the Coffee Hound and asked what they were doing. Repairing clothes, they told him, and noticing a large rip in his jacket, suggested he get it fixed.
Dalton Gorsuch and his five siblings were primarily raised by their grandparents. Receiving the Greenebaum Memorial Fund scholarship helped ease the financial stress of attending Illinois State University. Gorsuch, who said he wasn’t sure he could ever afford to go to college, is an elementary education major and looks forward to teaching children information they
Bill ’66 and Sue Hallinan ’68 are supporting the Redbirds Rising campaign at Illinois State University with a $500,000 gift to the Redbird Career Portfolio in the College of Business.
Receiving the Black Colleagues Association President’s Office Book Scholarship sparked a new confidence in Ashley Shannon ’18, broadcast journalism major, 2016 Homecoming queen, and 2017-2018 Student Body Vice President.
Perry Harlow ’16, M.S. ’18, was honored to receive the Harvey S. Woods Scholarship. Watch the video to hear more about Harlow’s journey.
Ivan Korkes was 12 years old when he came to the United States as an Assyrian refugee after the Iraq War. Today he is double majoring in international business and human resources and was able to study abroad thanks to the Friends of Donna Mauk Endowed Scholarship. “The scholarship I received help me move forward
