Confidentiality is critical to attracting applications from the very highest caliber candidates. The university is committed to conducting a completely confidential search in which only the name of the person selected as president will ever be made public. As an acknowledgement of the importance of confidentiality to their work, all members of the search committee and staff supporting the committee's work have signed the following confidentiality agreement:

I pledge that I will not divulge any information about the deliberations for the Ball State University Presidential Search at any time.