Undergraduate Professional Development grant provides lifetime opportunity

Jessica White poses with group in Peru

Jessica White, currently a sophomore at Illinois State, was a freshman in 2016 when she applied for an Undergraduate Professional Development (UPD) grant. “Going to Peru seemed like an unattainable dream, until the University Professional Development Grant helped make it a reality,” White said. “Before I went to Peru, I was close-minded in some areas of

Human Library speaker helps students see adversity

Amanda Coleman shows the students a book that has a picture of her injured eye.

No one has ever boarded three flights and traveled 1,500 miles from another country to be part of Illinois State’s Human Library, but Amanda Coleman has been through more. The soft-spoken woman from Nova Scotia, Canada, wanted to tell her story, which was hard to listen to. At 18 months old, she was blinded in