Learn how tracking social media can engage your students. Inspect techniques that can help ease some of the struggles international students frequently face.
Week of June 8: Teach with Social Media Analytics, Working with International Students
Unit: Academic Affairs and Provost
Week of June 1: Improv in the Classroom, Camtasia, Reinvent Your Course for Diversity
Come to the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology this week to identify different improvisational exercises to use in the classroom that promote active learning.
Illinois State to receive IIE grant for study abroad scholarships
Illinois State University is receiving funding from the Institute of International Education’s (IIE) Generation Study Abroad initiative to support study abroad scholarships. The university will receive $7,500 from IIE and will match that funding to create six student scholarship awards of $2,500 each.
Graduating senior receives Fulbright to teach in India
Hiba Ahmed, a graduating senior from the Illinois State University’s Honors Program, will travel to India as an English teaching assistant with a Fulbright grant.
Lead a Study Abroad Program workshop, May 19
This three-hour workshop, facilitated by the Office of International Studies and Programs, will present an overview of the study abroad process and its foundational concepts.
Group builds stronger voice for Illinois State’s graduate students
Kody Frey and Erica Johnson have a lot in common. But they never would’ve met without the Graduate Student Association, a registered student organization that’s making a big comeback at Illinois State.
Workshop series helps infuse diversity into courses
Faculty members looking to create a more inclusive classroom can get some assistance from the Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT) this summer with the “Reinvent Your Course for Diversity” workshop series.
‘Does Global Learning Matter?’ seminar April 22
The International Seminar Series will wrap up with the talk “Does Global Learning Matter?” at noon, Wednesday, April 22, in the Prairie Room of the Bone Student Center.
‘The Generational Shift in Book Consumption’ topic of U-Club
Brian Simpson, owner of Babbitt’s Books in uptown Normal, will speak about the changing nature of readers at the next University Club (U-Club) on Friday, April 24, from 3:30-5:30 p.m. in the Faculty/Staff Commons of the Bone Student Center. His talk, “The Generational Shift in Book Consumption (as told by a casualty thereof),” will begin at
University Research Symposium to showcase student work April 10
Pain relief, fiber optics, magnetic fields and farmers’ markets will be some of the subjects covered by more than 500 students in the annual University Research Symposium on Friday, April 10.
