Alumni journeys

Learn about Adler University alumni as they share their paths, accomplishments, and impact. These journeys highlight the diverse ways our graduates bring Adler’s mission to life in their communities and careers.

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Alumni authors: Stories that inform, inspire, and empower

Across genres and audiences, Adler University alumni are publishing titles that move beyond personal narrative or professional instruction, engaging urgent questions about how people heal, relate, and lead. The authors featured here bring that perspective into distinct contexts, offering a view into how Adler’s approach to education translates into practice, and how those ideas take shape in the lives and systems they are designed to serve. 

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‘May Contain Anxiety’: How an Adler alum fills a critical gap for food allergy families

When Tamara Hubbard’s three-year-old son was diagnosed with a peanut allergy, she found plenty of medical guidance, but nothing to help her family cope with the anxiety. The answers she needed didn’t exist. So, Hubbard created them.

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A life devoted to teaching: Jay Colker’s Adlerian legacy

Jay Colker ’80, D.M., may have officially “retired” in 2017, but his work and his passion for teaching have not slowed down. Nearly a decade later, Dr. Colker remains deeply engaged at Adler University, serving as an industrial and organizational psychology faculty member — still in the classroom, still mentoring students, still driven by the same purpose that has guided him from the start.

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A person in military uniform holds a small model of a white house with a porch, symbolizing veterans paving the road home, facing the camera.
November 12, 2019

Paving a “Road Home” for Veterans

November 12, 2019

Promoting a Safe and Successful Transition Back to Community for Criminal Offenders

Colorful mural featuring a hummingbird, mountains, and waves, with the word "COMPASSION" painted by Change Agent John Gingrich on a building wall beneath two windows and a no parking sign in front.
April 24, 2019

Change Agent: John Gingrich

Two elderly men in suits and ties stand side by side, smiling at the camera with one man’s arm around the other's shoulder, remembering founders and their shared history in front of a wooden paneled wall.
April 24, 2019

Remembering Our Founders

Two police officers and a woman, possibly a community mental health worker, speak with a distressed person sitting on the floor by a stairwell in an indoor building.
April 24, 2019

Working with police to support community mental health

Four women stand closely together, smiling at the camera, with a hand-drawn poster featuring houses and people on the wall behind them—united in their mission to help women crossing cultural divides.
April 24, 2019

Crossing Cultural Divides to Help Women After Violence

Cheryl Magee, a true Change Agent, smiles with shoulder-length curly hair and a burgundy lace top, posed in front of a neutral background.
April 24, 2019

Change Agent: Cheryl Magee

A group of students sit at desks in a classroom facing a teacher who is standing and speaking at the front near a whiteboard, highlighting the importance of strong Parent-Teacher Relationships for student success.
April 24, 2019

Strengthening the Parent-Teacher Relationship

A group of people in academic regalia stand and sit on stage at a graduation ceremony, with flags displayed in the background and a sign language interpreter in the foreground, celebrating the achievements of the next generation.
April 24, 2019

Introducing the Next Generation

A smiling Central Illinois veteran in camouflage gear and helmet stands outdoors, wearing sunglasses and holding a rifle.
December 10, 2018

Graduate Dedicated to Helping Veterans in Central Illinois

A woman with long blonde hair and a necklace smiles at the camera in an outdoor setting, celebrating as an Online Campus Graduate.
October 26, 2018

Online Campus Graduate Emphasizes the Difference a ‘Just Few’ Can Make

A graduate in academic regalia speaks at a podium with two microphones against a dark background at Adler University's Vancouver Campus.
October 18, 2018

Vancouver Campus Graduate Reflects on Importance of Community at Adler University

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