|  | | |
| | |
FRESHMAN CONNECTIONS PROGRAM
2005-2006
This archived page preserves the basic information for the 2005-2006 Freshman Connections program. If you have any questions, email us at the link to the left.
| |
|
Passport Award Winner Brittany Walls Accepts Free Parking Pass From the Office of Parking Services Office Manager Nancy Wray. Freshman Connections thanks Nancy Wray and Ball State University Parking Services for their generous donation to the “Connect with Your Community Passport” Program.
INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS
2005-2006
This page archives information given to new students in their first year at Ball State in 2005-2006. It also archives the results of any special contests held during that year. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to use the email link to the left.
- "Connect with Your Community Passport" Information
Passport Award Winners 2005-2006
Christine Welage--Lunch with Three Friends and President Gora
Brittany Walls--Spring Semester Parking Pass (see photo above)
Evan Meltzer--Tour to the Top of the Bell Tower
$100 Gift Certificates to the Ball State University Bookstore:
Michael Copley
Rachel Hein
Ester Holmes
Shelby Larkin
Mallory McCullough
Dan McElroy
Evan Meltzer
Haley Minix
Natalie Parker
John Pietzak
Merdith Redden
Dustin Reoch
Ashely Smith
Adriene Taylor
Alicia Weddle
Jaquelyn Wetli
Tia Wible
Sarah Windlan
Johna Picco
- Freshmen--Free Ticket to the "Caucasian Chalk Circle" Play dates are November 10-13, 16-19 at 7:30 p.m. (Nov. 13 at 2:30 p.m.). Pick up your free ticket at the University Box Office (located directly opposite the south exit to Bracken Library). The box office is open from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Further details are available at http://www.bsu.edu/theatre/boxoffice/. For a look at this play's director's original notes, see http://www.bsu.edu/freshmanconnections/playnotes
- Freshman Connections Photography Contest for 2005
Thanks to all those who submitted their work. Entries are currently on display in Bracken Library in the Bistro area (where the vending machines are located). The winners were, as follows:
- First Prize: Shannon Evers with "I've Been Poked"
- Second Prize: Jennifer Hasting with "ipod, MyPod"
| | | | | |
| | |
| |
|
Book Highlights Freshman ProgramsIn 2002, The Policy Center on the First Year of College--with the assistance of The Pew Charitable Trust, The Atlantic Philanthropies, and the Lumina Foundation for Education--undertook a project to identify colleges and universities with exemplary programs for first-year students. Ball State was named one of those 13 exemplary institutions (see related news link to the left). Recently, Jossey-Bass publishers released the volume highlighting these 13 programs.
Two key passages in Ball State's chapter occur at the beginning and end:
- "The answer to how this unique focus on first-year students came to be can be found in the extraordinary leadership of a core group of formal and informal campus leaders, the institutionalization of services to first-year students . . . , the partnerships between academic and student affairs, and the institution's ability to embrace teaching as a primary component of the institution's mission" (p. 299)
- "Ball State is doing so much that is right that the major challenge is simply to continue the status quo" (p. 322)
For more information about this book and to read further excerpts, follow this link to the Jossey-Bass website.
| | | | | |
|
|
Copyright © 2008 Ball State University 2000 W. University
Ave. Muncie, IN 47306
