Alumnus Stephen M. Alessi, Ed.M. ’76, Ph.D. ’79 EPSY, has established two funds: the Philip and Helen Alessi Fellowship and the Alessi Family Professorship to support graduate students and professors in the Department of Educational Psychology. The support and education he received at Illinois motivated him to give back and support future students and faculty in the College of Education.
“This generous gift from Dr. Alessi will be instrumental both in recruiting outstanding students and in rewarding and retaining world-class faculty. We are very grateful and proud to have been the starting point for his long and extremely successful career,” said Kiel Christianson, department chair and professor of Educational Psychology.
