in 1998-99 extended deep into the local community. Beset with plant closings and the loss of two thousand manufacturing jobs, the university and Congressman David McIntosh announced a $1 million grant to provide workforce development training for displaced, unemployed, or underemployed workers in Muncie-Delaware County. The initiative is a collaborative effort involving the Ball State Center for Organizational Resources, Delaware County Employment and Training Service, the Chamber of Commerce, Muncie Community Schools Adult Education, the Delaware County Building Trades, and the Muncie Urban Enterprise Association.

Ball State and Congressman McIntosh also joined forces for the second time to sponsor the Central Indiana Job Fair held in University Arena. The successful fair brought together more than two hundred employers and approximately twenty-five hundred job seekers.

We are a university involved in the community. We are also a university increasingly involved in the world.

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