Here are our 24 favorite Illinois State posts, stories, and videos from 2024.
24 favorite Illinois State posts, stories, and videos from 2024
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Winter commencement 2024 recap: Your best photos and posts
Illinois State University granted 1,020 baccalaureate degrees and 332 graduate degrees December 14 during winter commencement.
Finding hope: Member of first Hope Chicago cohort overcomes challenges, encourages others to persevere and succeed
Mirkan Garcia’s plans for the future changed when she was awarded a Hope Chicago Scholarship for a debt-free college education during her senior year of high school.
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.
Alum fuels passion for art by returning to where it all started
School of Communication alum Blake Bloodworth returned to Colene Hoose Elementary to paint a mural and talk to a class of fourth graders.
Career Services director Quanisha Kumi-Darfour ’06 shares career resources on Redbird Buzz
Director of Career Services Quanisha Kumi-Darfour ’06 shares the resources her department offers to all Redbirds in this episode of Redbird Buzz.
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: 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.
Covering the eclipse: TV-10 reporter earns student Emmy for solar eclipse story
Maggee Bleyer, a senior journalism major, captured the April 8 eclipse in a roughly 2-minute package for TV-10. While the event she covered was extraordinary, it was Bleyer’s work behind the camera that truly stood out.
