Education

By: Holly Ford— Muncie IN—Five Muncie Central seniors have signed offers to join college athletic teams. On Wednesday, February 1, Central held a signing event for each student to sign with family, friends, teammates, and coaches present. Khamasi Muhiga signed with Ball State University to play tennis. He will double major in marketing and business management. Muhiga dreamed of joining BSU’s tennis team since he was a young boy. “I’ve wanted to play [at Ball State] since I was little,”…

By: Gail Werner—  MUNCIE, Ind. – Alumnus Jim Davis returns to the Ball State University campus this semester with more lessons from his life as creator of America’s favorite cartoon cat. He’ll discuss “The Business of Garfield” at 7 p.m. Feb. 15 in Sursa Hall. The event is free and open to the public. The lecture is a continuation of Davis’s ongoing relationship with the university. The 1967 graduate made his teaching debut at Ball State this academic year, speaking…

INDIANAPOLIS, IN—The General Assembly joined State Representative Melanie Wright (D-Yorktown) in recognizing three Daleville High School girls and the Daleville baseball team. Marlee Hobbs, Mackenzie Riddle and Morgan Riddle are all juniors at Daleville High School and have been performing together since they were in second grade. In sixth grade the girls arranged their signature version of the national anthem and performed it at a Daleville High School basketball game. This led to them performing at other school functions and…

By: Mike Rhodes— Yorktown, IN—Verizon awarded its Best in State Innovative Learning App Challenge to Yorktown Middle School. The Yorktown team received Verizon’s Innovative Learning App Challenge prizes at an afternoon rally today for the entire sixth-grade class. The rally was organized this afternoon by the school and nearly 200 students attended. Prizes included $5,000 for Yorktown Middle School and tablets with 4G LTE service for each team member. Students on the winning team were: Kolton Nanko, Aiden Riegle, Allie Wilhelm, Raya Tewari and Maria Alexander. The…

By: BSU Division of Strategic Communications— Muncie, IN—The Ball State University Board of Trustees today selected Geoffrey S. Mearns to become the institution’s 17th president. “Geoff Mearns is exactly the leader Ball State needs to move us boldly into the next 100 years,” said Board Chair Rick Hall. “His prior experience and knowledge of higher education will enable him to partner with our faculty, staff, and administration to provide Ball State students with a life-changing education.” “At the same time,…

INDIANAPOLIS, IN—The Indiana General Assembly joined State Representative Sue Errington (D-Muncie) in recognizing Ball State University’s Immersive Learning Project, “Unmasked: The Stigma of Meth.” This program — led by Terry Heifetz, an instructor of Telecommunications and News Director for Indiana Public Radio; Juli Metzger, instructor of Journalism and Coordinator of Unified Media in the College of Communications; John Osterhoudt, a student at Ball State; Tony Sandleben, a student at Ball State — allowed 26 students to examine the meth epidemic…

By: Ana Pichardo & Holly Ford— Muncie, IN—On Monday, January 23, Mr. Steve Douglas will join Muncie Central as an Assistant Principal. Mr.Douglas served in the Indianapolis Public Schools for over 25 years. His professional experience in education includes Industrial Technology Teacher, Interim Principal, Vice Principal, Dean, Athletic Director, Head Football Coach, Head Track Coach, and Varsity Wrestling Coach. He comes to Muncie Community Schools after serving a brief period with the Chrysler Corporation as a People Development Specialist, further enhancing…

KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Last weekend at the American Baseball Coaches Association Convention in Anaheim, Calif., Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA, www.fca.org) Baseball honored Ball State University head baseball coach Rich Maloney with the 2017 Jerry Kindall Character in Coaching Award. Fellowship of Christian Athletes’ Annual Award Recognizes a College or High School Baseball Coach Who Exemplifies Character, Integrity, Excellence, Teamwork and Service FCA Baseball presents the Kindall Award each year at the ABCA Convention to the college or high school baseball coach who best exemplifies the Christian principles…

MUNCIE, IN – Three graduate programs at Ball State University are ranked in the top 20 in the country in U.S. News & World Report’s 2017 “Best Online Programs.” The magazine ranked the university’s online master in business administration (MBA) at 12th, with nursing at 13th and education at 16th. The publication also ranked Ball State’s online bachelor’s programs at 36th. In 2016,education was 11th, MBA was 12th and nursing was 23rd while online bachelor’s programs were 34th. Ball State has a tradition…