October 31, 2024
![Ball State University Village revitalization plan rendering, January 2024](/-/media/www/images/news/articles/2024/ball-state-pac-village-rendering-web.jpg?sc_lang=en)
Ball State University will celebrate a milestone with a groundbreaking ceremony for its new Performing Arts Center and The Cantio Hotel at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024.
October 4, 2024
![Ball State University's Shafer Tower, 2024](/-/media/www/images/news/articles/2024/2024_shafer-tower-ball-state-web.jpg?sc_lang=en)
The Ball State University Board of Trustees on Friday received updates on several key institutional achievements, including promising Fall 2024 enrollment trends, the University’s continued partnership with Muncie Community Schools (MCS), and progress on Ball State’s new Center for Innovation and Eric Foss Championship Performance Center.
August 14, 2024
![Ball State Beneficence, 2024](/-/media/www/images/news/articles/2024/2024-beneficence-web.jpg?sc_lang=en)
Ball State University achieved a fundraising milestone, securing more than $79 million in new gifts and commitments during the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2024.
May 3, 2024
The Ball State University Board of Trustees on Friday reappointed Mark Ervin to the Muncie Community Schools (MCS) Board of Trustees. Also at Friday’s meeting, the Board approved the budget, scope, and naming of the University’s new Eric Foss Championship Performance Center, and the naming of the Rhonda Newport Kaspar Stage and Timothy M. Andrews Monumental Stair within the new Performing Arts Center.
March 21, 2024
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One Ball State Day, Ball State University’s award-winning 24-hour fundraising event, returns Wednesday, April 3, with the goal of topping $1 million for a third straight year.
February 1, 2024
![Todd Siebert Memorial Foundation visits Ball State University](/-/media/www/images/news/articles/2024/siebart_als-visit-web.jpg?sc_lang=en)
Ball State University's Department of Biology has received a significant donation of $20,000 from the Todd Siebert Memorial Foundation. The foundation, aimed at advancing research in C9ORF72-linked Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), was established in honor of Todd Siebert, who lost his battle with ALS in 2021 at the age of 51.
January 30, 2024
![Ball State University Village revitalization plan rendering, January 2024](/-/media/www/images/news/articles/2024/ball-state-pac-village-rendering-web.jpg?sc_lang=en)
Ball State University President Geoffrey S. Mearns invites campus and local community members to two presentations about the University’s plan to revitalize The Village, the business district located immediately adjacent to campus.
January 26, 2024
![Village Rendering 4](/-/media/www/images/news/articles/2024/village-rendering-4.jpg?sc_lang=en)
The Ball State University Board of Trustees on Friday approved five important contracts to advance the implementation of the University’s Village Revitalization Plan.
October 23, 2023
![Call to Beneficence, Ball State University](/-/media/www/images/news/articles/2023/call-to-beneficence-logo-web.jpg?sc_lang=en)
On Friday evening, Ball State University publicly launched “Our Call to Beneficence,” the most ambitious comprehensive fundraising campaign in the University’s history.
September 15, 2023
The Ball State University Board of Trustees on Friday, in its first meeting of the 2023-24 academic year, reviewed a comprehensive design for the University’s new Performing Arts Center.
September 7, 2023
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Ball State University will hold a grand opening on Sept. 19 for the Brown Family Amphitheater—a new outdoor performance and gathering space on campus that the entire community can enjoy.
August 24, 2023
![Ball State University participation in the Habitat for Humanity Awareness Build](/-/media/www/images/news/articles/2023/082423_ball-state-habitat-awareness-build-web.jpg?sc_lang=en)
Several divisions at Ball State University this month are participating in and financially supporting Greater Muncie Habitat for Humanity’s Awareness Build.
May 5, 2023
![2021 Beneficence](/-/media/www/images/news/articles/2022/2021-beneficence-web.jpg?sc_lang=en)
The Ball State University Board of Trustees, in its final meeting of the 2022-23 academic year, on Friday reappointed Jim Lowe to the Muncie Community Schools (MCS) Board of Trustees.
March 16, 2023
![2023 One Ball State Day](/-/media/www/images/news/articles/2023/2023-one-ball-state-day-web.jpg?sc_lang=en)
One Ball State Day, Ball State University’s award-winning 24-hour fundraising event, returns for its fifth year Wednesday, April 5, with the goal of topping last year’s record-setting effort of $1 million.
November 11, 2022
![Molinaro Faculty Fellows](/-/media/www/images/news/articles/2022/molinaro_fellow_web.jpg?sc_lang=en)
Three faculty members of Ball State University’s Miller College of Business were selected as inaugural inductees of the Father Kenneth M. Molinaro, CSC Faculty Fellowship Program in a recent ceremony held in the Molinaro Hall of Fame Room of the Whitinger Business Building.
April 6, 2022
![2022 One Ball State Day](/-/media/www/images/news/articles/2022/2022-one-ball-state-day-web.jpg?sc_lang=en)
Ball State University is once again celebrating its best single day of fundraising ever following the results of Tuesday’s fourth annual One Ball State Day. Preliminary figures indicate the University received more than 7,000 gifts totaling more than $1 million during its annual 24-hour online fundraising event, providing much-needed support to the financial needs of students, faculty and staff, and programs.
March 31, 2022
![One Ball State Day logo](/-/media/www/images/news/articles/2021/obsd-2021/obsdarticle.jpg?sc_lang=en)
One Ball State Day, Ball State University’s 24-hour online fundraising event, returns April 5 with some ambitious goals. After three consecutive years of increased giving since the event’s inaugural celebration in 2019, One Ball State Day (OBSD) organizers this year hope to raise at least $1 million in gifts from Cardinals around the world to continue to support the financial needs of students, faculty and staff, and programs.
January 20, 2022
![Bill and Evelyn Stokes](/-/media/www/images/news/articles/stokesfamilyheader.jpeg?sc_lang=en)
Financially challenged Ball State University students studying to become K-12 math and art teachers are eligible for new scholarships, thanks to the generosity of the late Bill and Evelyn Stokes. Last Fall, the William and Evelyn Stokes Foundation reached an agreement with the Ball State University Foundation to give $1 million in scholarships over the next four years to an unspecified number of students who demonstrate financial need.
September 8, 2021
![One Ball State Day](/-/media/www/images/news/articles/2021/09/one-day-bsu.jpg?sc_lang=en)
Ball State University raised $36 million in philanthropic gifts and commitments in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2021, marking the third consecutive year of more than $30 million in new private, philanthropic gifts to the University.
June 22, 2021
![One Ball State Day Earns Two 2020 CASE Circle Of Excellence Awards](/-/media/www/images/news/articles/2021/06/one-ball-state-day-earns-two-2020-case-circle-of-excellence-awards/obsd_earns_two_awards.jpg?sc_lang=en)
One Ball State Day, Ball State University’s 24-hour online fundraising event, was recently recognized once again for its positive impact made in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
April 7, 2021
![One Ball State Day logo](/-/media/www/images/news/articles/2021/obsd-2021/obsdpressrelease.jpg?sc_lang=en)
During the third annual One Ball State Day on April 6, Ball State University celebrated its best single day of fundraising ever.
March 25, 2021
![One Ball State Day logo](/-/media/www/images/news/articles/2021/obsd-2021/obsdpressrelease.jpg?sc_lang=en)
One Ball State Day, Ball State University’s award-winning 24-hour online fundraising event, will be held on April 6, 2021.
February 25, 2021
![Construction on the new Multicultural Center](/-/media/www/images/news/articles/2021/digital-media-exec-donates-to-multicultural-center/multiculturalcenterbuilding.jpg?sc_lang=en)
Digital media executive and alumnus Timothy Andrews, ’84, hopes a gift to the Multicultural Center contributes to Ball State’s welcoming culture for everyone.
February 2, 2021
![One Ball State Day cake](/-/media/www/images/news/articles/2021/obsd/obsd.jpg?sc_lang=en)
One Ball State Day brought thousands of Cardinals together, virtually, to make an investment in students at a time when they needed it most
December 11, 2020
![Brown Family Amphitheater](/-/media/www/images/news/articles/2020/bot-december/bot_december2020.jpg?sc_lang=en)
During its final Board of Trustees meeting of 2020, Ball State University announced an additional $2.8 million gift from Charles W. Brown that will fund an outdoor performance and gathering space named the Brown Family Amphitheater.