Tricky last name? ISU’s commencement readers are ready

ISU grad celebrates

About a week before commencement, Laura Kennedy ’86 paces up and down the hallways of WGLT going over hundreds of names. Brown and Palmer are a breeze. Czuczor, Duong and LeSueur, not so much. That’s why the commencement reader rehearses, even reading through her spreadsheet of 200 names in a corner of the women’s locker

One year after plane crash, Redbirds embrace Project 7

Redbird Remembrance

On April 7, 2015, the Illinois State University community was stunned and saddened by a tragic plane crash that claimed the lives of two Athletics Department staff members and five Redbird friends and supporters. As the one-year observance approaches, the Illinois State Athletics Department encourages faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends to pay respect to