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Illinois State University moved up in the ranking for best national public university in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report.
Statistics have shown that nearly 50 percent of teachers leave the teaching field within the first three to five years, making teacher attrition a subject for which researchers want to find answers.
The 24 graduates of the Family Nurse Practitioner program in the Mennonite College of Nursing at Illinois State University achieved a 100 percent pass rate on the national family nurse practitioner certification examination for 2016.
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Special alumni discounts are available at for Fright Fest 2016 at Six Flags St. Louis and [...]
Courtney Pence set an Illinois State digs record for the second weekend in a row as the [...]
Seventeen fourth-quarter points were not enough to push the No. 9 ranked Illinois State [...]
The Illinois State soccer team dominated Indiana State, 4-0, Friday night at Adelaide [...]
In her first tournament as a Redbird, Jelena Karla Vujicic has already made her mark by [...]