Help make a local child’s holiday wishes come true! Sponsorships officially open October 25 for the Center for Civic Engagement’s annual Holiday Helper program.
Holiday Helper 2021 sponsorships opening October 25
Unit: Center for Civic Engagement
Sustainability in the stockroom: Chemistry Department implements eco-friendly practices
Illinois State’s Department of Chemistry has implemented several eco-friendly practices in its facilities.
Planting seeds of civic engagement: Horticulture students gain valuable skills through service learning
Dr. David Kopsell knows his horticulture students learn best when they engage with the class content and get their hands dirty.
ISU community celebrates the opening of the Multicultural Center
In a moving ceremony, the Illinois State campus community celebrated on October 15 the new Multicultural Center, a recently renovated space dedicated to providing support for students and strengthening the University’s commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Confronting evil: Social justice trip at Holocaust sites inspires Redbirds to speak out and make a difference
Drs. Jacqueline Schneider and Susan Woollen’s partnership has given Illinois State students the opportunity to see just how important it is to look out for others.
‘Grab the wheel and take control’: Student’s message for survivors
Nastasha Powers ’19 has a passion for the work she does on behalf of survivors of sexual abuse and trauma.
Campus hero: Dr. Becky Beucher
In each issue Redbird Impact highlights an Illinois State faculty or staff member who exemplifies the University’s core value of civic engagement. The fall 2021 Campus Hero is Dr. Becky Beucher, an assistant professor of secondary literacy education in the College of Education.
CCE launches new Exploring Wicked Problems series
The Center for Civic Engagement is hosting its Exploring Wicked Problems series in October, focusing on health inequities and the social determinants of health.
Out of seclusion: Special Education faculty teach schools how to avoid the use of isolation rooms and restraints
Public schools across Illinois locked students as young as 5 into isolation rooms, some no bigger than a phone booth, where the children were left to cry, beg to be let out, and dig their nails into padded walls, according to an investigation published in 2019 by the Chicago Tribune and ProPublica Illinois.
ISU Expungement Clinic is giving people with criminal records a second chance
Last academic year, Kelly Larkin received a crash course in the moral complexities of being a lawyer through Illinois State University’s new Expungement Clinic.
