Dr. Beck has been at Illinois State since 1993. She received her B.S. (‘73) and M.S. (‘75) degrees from Southern Illinois University, and her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1981. She holds an American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Certificate of Clinical Competence, an Illinois State License in Speech-Language Pathology, and an Illinois State Type 10 Certificate for Speech and Language Impaired. In 1996, she won the University’s Teaching Initiative Award, and in 1993 Beck was promoted to full professor.