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Notable Alumni

Illinois State University’s alumni are accomplishing great things all over the globe. The accomplishments are more than just winning an Academy Award, starring in a major motion picture or becoming a professional athlete. There are notable alumni right in your very own neighborhood.

Illinois State University alumni have changed the lives of students in their own local school district, developed new forms of technology that have transformed the everyday living, and founded or helped with programs that have bettered the world.

Active Alumni

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Alumni News

A group of students/alumni wearing red Chi Omega jackets pose with Reggie Redbird.
From a historic concert at Horton Field House, to a key game in the Redbirds’ longest football rivalry, historian Tom Emery explores this month in Illinois State University history. 
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Pathway Programs provide promising international students who do not fully meet traditional admission requirements an opportunity to join Illinois State. 
A concert stage set with percussion instruments
The fall concert will feature two pieces with strong connections to the Illinois State University Percussion Studio, the world premiere of sophomore music composition and music education major Nick Sleevar's new percussion duo "Hand Trong Rừng" and "Kars I," a traditional Armenian folk song brought to life by piano virtuoso Tigran Hamasyan, and re-imagined for percussion trio, singer, and electronics by world-renowned percussionist and alum Ksenija Komljenović '14, M.M.