News and College Life

Audry II, from Little Shop of Horrors, spooks children out enjoying the university's annual trunk or treat event for the community.

Dust settles on the route for the the Great Plains Project as the sun sets over the Flint Hills of Kansas. 

Illinois State University hosted the inaugural "Builder's STAGE" event on October 30th as a part of the effort to promote our new College of Engineering.  The three presenters invited were the popular engineering YouTubers Xyla Foxlin (456K subscribers, more than 90 videos),

“Smarter Every Day” YouTuber Destin Sandlin (11.6 million subscribers, more than 380 videos) and “Practical Engineering” YouTuber Grady Hillhouse (3.9 million subscribers, more than 200 videos).  Many local K-12 schools attended the event to hear from the YouTubers about their passion for engineering and encourage them that anyone can grow up to become an engineer if they want to be.

Midland Performs during a homecoming concert on the Texas Tech campus.

Cheerleaders put their guns up during the homecoming bonfire.

One of our many friendly campus squirrels preparing for the coming Winter by fattening up on the seeds found on our Quad.  Illinois State University's campus is an arboretum that contains at least one of every species of tree native to Illinois, so the squirrels have their pick of the bunch; though they usually prefer the peanuts students occasionally hand to them!

Afternoon sunlight streams into Randall Hall as student Ava Gollbach takes an afternoon study break Thursday, October 31, 2024.

College of Humanities, Social Sciences, & the Arts hosted the 2024 Writers Week October 28th - November 1st at the Fisher Student Union. Throughout the week participants explored the fluidity of artistic expression across boundaries of genre, mode, and medium.

Students enjoy the dark skies and the waining display of Northern Lights on Oct. 10. 2024.

The umbrellas came out for the first time in a long time when we got our first rain in seemingly forever in late October.