Today, students dressed in 1918 attire will quote famous women’s suffrage speeches, looking to draw parallels to a movement aimed at sexual assault education and action.
Instead of scouring Muncie bookstores and online prices, the university will automatically bill students for e-textbooks for some courses. In the spring, Ball State will formally adopt an e-textbook program, called the Courseload eContent Readiness Program, which places the e-textbook on students’ Blackboards.
The Blue Loop started Monday to give students off-campus a ride during the winter. The bus runs every 10 minutes from 7:40 a.m.
Ball State will join the fight against HIV and AIDS by observing World AIDS Day today. In 1988, World AIDS Day became the first global health day and is observed Dec.
A new legislature targeting “pill mills,” which supply pills to people hooked on prescription medications, will limit the amount of prescription pills doctors are allowed to prescribe. The legislation will go into effect this month. Before prescribing drugs, doctors will have to do more screening on patients and track the prescriptions they give out with a program called INSPECT. Patients might have to submit to drug tests before and during their prescription.
The U.S. State Department estimates that 27 million people around the world are in slavery today. At Ball State, International Justice Mission tried to raise awareness for this little known statistic, said vice president Stephanie Metzger, because many people assume slavery stopped after the Civil War. The group is a Christian human rights organization that focuses on human trafficking.
A Ball State student activism group has joined a national movement to start conversations on campus about ceasing university investment in fossil fuels.
About 106,000 people have signed up for the Affordable Care Act since exchanges opened on Oct. 1, far below the Obama administration’s expectations.
Ball State’s reported statistic of 11 sexual offenses in 2012 tells a very small part of the story.
Traditional classrooms with forward facing rows and a central focus might not be the best for students anymore, according to one study partly conducted at Ball state.
While many students may remember lockdown drills at schools before Ball State, a full lockdown isn’t feasible on a college campus, officials from multiple universities said.
Ball State’s ranking for sexual health resources and awareness has fallen 12 spots from last year, and 26 spots from 2011. The rankings are sponsored by Trojan condoms and are based on how effective university health centers are at providing services and information about sex to campuses.
Fifty years ago today, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot while riding in a motorcade in Dallas.
Today Sales major and minor meeting The H.H. Gregg Center for Professional Selling will host a meeting giving information about Ball State’s professional selling major and minor.
Students raised about $1,000 to support music therapy for people in nursing homes Wednesday night. Close to 200 people gathered in Pruis Hall for “A Night to Remember.” A group of first semester freshman telecommunication students organized most of the event.
On Friday in the David Letterman Communication and Media Building’s lobby, Department of Telecommunications will show the live CBS news coverage from John F.
Although Indiana does not recognize same-sex marriage or domestic partnerships, Ball State provides benefit coverage to employee’s domestic partners. This coverage, however, does not exactly mirror what’s available to legal spouses, because of federal and state laws.
The Greek Life Co-Sponsorship Bill that has been discussed in Student Government multiple times this semester was voted down today in Senate by recommendation of the Finance Committee.
Following a nationwide trend, a gender gap still exists between male and female faculty in the sciences at Ball State.
More than half of Hoosiers aren’t prepared for a disaster, according to a recent Indiana Department of Homeland Security study.
