The Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Honors House Expansion
The Ball Honors House is home to a growing honors family, which includes more students than ever before and more offices that serve students from across the entire Ball State campus. In the Fall of 2025 the Honors College welcomed more than 600 new freshman and now serves nearly 1,600 total honors students. In addition, the Honors College is the home of the Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry and the Office of Nationally Competitive Scholarships, which provide services to students and recent alumni. The Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Expansion Project will allow the Honors College to better serve students and provide more accessible spaces for new the entire campus community to enjoy. It will also better connect the Ball Honors House to the campus community and to nearby projects in The Village. Special attention has been taken to preserve the historic nature of the Ball home, while modernizing classroom and office spaces.
The outdoor labyrinth and additional landscaping will be finished in late October.
The entire project is being funded through private donations, so your help in completing this project is very much appreciated. Thus far donors have generously supported nearly 90% of the cost of construction, but help is needed to close the final gap of roughly $150,000 to complete the project. Please consider supporting us as we reach our goal (any amount helps).
Levels of Giving
Donors who contribute $500 or more to this project will be recognized in the new space. Be part of our story and add your name to the pages of Honors College history by having your name or names engraved on a metallic book spine that will be added to our donor bookshelf. Those who give to the Honors College Expansion at the levels below will be recognized in the following way:
Ball Honors House History
The Ball Honors House is the home of the Honors College. It is the former home of two of the university's most generous benefactors, Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball. Edmund F. Ball (1905-2000), a Muncie industrialist and son of one of the original five Ball brothers, was president of Ball Corporation and a charter member of the Ball State Foundation. Virginia B. Ball (1919-2003) was a philanthropist and active supporter of education, the environment, the arts, and the humanities. The Ball Honors House is the home of the Honors College.
How can I support the Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball
Honors House Expansion?
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Any amount, big or small, given to the Honors College is appreciated!
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