Ball State University News

An Indiana State Police Major recently observed a milestone in his career as a result of achievement, service and dedication to the Indiana State Police Department and to the citizens of the State of Indiana.

Carson Weingart, a junior at Ball State University, recently won the annual Ball State University Concerto Competition.

MUNCIE Ball State University has closed the books on its January decision to pull its sponsorship of five academically struggling Indiana charter schools, including Imagine Schools on Broadway and Imagine MASTer Academy in Fort Wayne.

The family of Charles R. Hunterman plans to conduct an open house to celebrate his 90th birthday from 2 to 4a p.m. May 26 in Fellowship Hall at the First United Methodist Church, 201 E. Third St., Seymour.

The nearly $1 million salary that put Ball State University President Jo Ann Gora among the country's highest-paid public college leaders didn't come during a typical year, school officials said.

Graham B. Spanier Pennsylvania State University at University Park $2,906,721 Jay Gogue Auburn University $2,542,865 E. Gordon Gee Ohio State University-Main Campus $1,899,420 Alan G. Merten George Mason University $1,869,369 Jo Ann M. Gora Ball State University $984,647 Mary Sue Coleman University of Michigan system $918,783 Charles W. Steger ... (more)

A database compiled by the Chronicle of Higher Education listed Ball State University's President Jo Ann Gora as the nation's fifth-highest earning public college president from 2011 to 2012.

It's that time of year again: time to take stock of your life and consider the resolutions that already have fallen by the wayside.

Former Penn State President Graham Spanier became the highest paid public college president of 2011-12 when he was forced out over his handling of the sex abuse scandal involving former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, according to a survey released Sunday.

Today marks two months since Indiana teen Hannah Graham walked out the front door of her home in Crown Point.

She woke up in a hospital bed, not quite herself. Her wrist was broken. Her ears buzzed.

A developer is planning a $60 million project with apartments, commercial storefronts and a parking garage a few blocks from the Ball State University campus.

Katie Burke and her husband, Gregory Burke, have been happily married for three years.

There is no shortage of petty hall monitors, arrogant bureaucrats and paternalistic politicians who know what is good for us, will threaten us into compliance with their lifestyle choices, and discipline us into shutting up if we feel differently.

The excuses many people -- Hoosier women in particular -- use to avoid exercise are seemingly endless: Children take all my free time, work leaves me exhausted, it's not any fun anyway and I'd prefer to sit and watch television.

There's new technology you can use to spy on your neighbors, but that doesn't mean it's legal.

A $50 million apartment and retail development with a government owned parking garage may rise from the demolition of the historic Collegiate Store in the University Village near Ball State University.

For the fifth year in a row, Ball State University is facing a cut or freeze in its operating appropriation from the state, but it's being offset thanks to the university's entrepreneurial initiative, also known as immersive learning.

As a part-time flight instructor for the Air Force Reserve, he regularly bounces between his home in Florida and his military base in North Carolina.

Jeffrey D. Feltman, a Greenville native and United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, gave a special presentation Sunday as part of Garst Museum's lecture series program.