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.
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.
January 30, 2024
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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
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The Ball State University Board of Trustees on Friday approved five important contracts to advance the implementation of the University’s Village Revitalization Plan.
December 15, 2023
![The Village Performing Arts Center aerial rendering, Ball State University](/-/media/www/images/news/articles/2023/village-aerial-rendering-web.jpg?sc_lang=en)
Ball State University has received a grant of $35 million from Lilly Endowment Inc. through its initiative, College and Community Collaboration (CCC). The grant will support the University’s ambitious, long-term plan to revitalize The Village, the commercial district adjacent to Ball State’s campus.
March 25, 2022
![Rendering of the Village](/-/media/www/images/news/articles/2022/village-rendering.jpg?sc_lang=en)
The Ball State University Board of Trustees took a major step on Friday to advance a long-term, phased revitalization plan for the Village.