David Letterman gives his view on Gora’s retirement
By Staff Reports / October 29, 2013Alumnus David Letterman gave his view on university President Jo Ann Gora’s retirement announcement for June 2014.
Alumnus David Letterman gave his view on university President Jo Ann Gora’s retirement announcement for June 2014.
At the end of Jo Ann Gora’s 10 years as president of Ball State, she will leave behind a focus on immersive learning, more than $520 million worth of construction and renovations and a renewed interest in athletics. But mostly, Gora will leave behind big shoes to fill. The goal for the 2008 Ball State Bold campaign was $200 million by 2011.
The Board of Trustees approved a roughly $800,000 increase in funding for construction on the new planetarium Saturday. Based on construction bids from Oct.
Ball State President Jo Ann Gora hosted a press conference Oct. 28 about her impending retirement. Here are some tweets from the event.
The search for the next Ball State president is in its infant stages but it will most likely be a closed one, President of the Board of Trustees Hollis Hughes said. Hughes said the board hasn’t had much time to begin preparing for the search and will likely know more at their monthly meeting in December. Gora said she was a part of a closed search when she was hired by Ball State in 2004 and it allows the best pool of candidates.
The process for finding a new university president is still unknown. The Board of Trustees has not announced its plans for hiring a president following the announcement of Jo Ann Gora’s retirement in June 2014.
The Energy Challenge is following up on Ball State’s commitment to move toward carbon neutrality by saving the university an estimated “tens of thousands of dollars.” Students can get involved with the challenge by turning off lights and unplugging appliances when they are not in use.
National Cyber Security Awareness Month is mobilizing information technology experts across the country, but cyber safety is ultimately the responsibility of anybody who touches a keyboard. Deb Howell, assistant director of Ball State information security operations, said students and others need to avoid phishing scams and other common hacking efforts and not depend on others to protect them. “Someone always assumes that someone else is taking care of it,” she said. Hacking victims have included Twitter and some of the country’s other best-known social network companies, as well as units of government including the state courts office in Washington state last fall. In that Washington court case, as many as a million driver’s license numbers and 160,000 Social Security numbers were exposed, according to The Associated Press. “Our country will, for example, at some point, face a major cyber event that will have a serious effect on our lives, our economy and the everyday functioning of our society,” Janet Napolitano, former secretary of Homeland Security, said in August. National Cyber Security Awareness Month is intended to alert computer users to the threat of online attacks and provide advice on how to avoid them. At Ball State, the university reached out to students at Late Nite on Saturday.
Jo Ann Gora’s first days as Ball State president in 2004 weren’t without challenges. The search committee that hired Gora faced complaints from faculty and students about the methods of the search, including the decision not to release any names of the finalists during the process — a first for the university. Jayson Manship, Student Government Association president at the time, criticized student representation on the search committee in a statement during the search.
Both Ball State and IU experienced similar student safety incidents, but the universities reacted in very different ways. Late Saturday night, a Ball State student was stabbed in the Worthen Arena parking lot in an attempted robbery, according to an email the university sent that informed students of the incident.
Since becoming president of Ball State in May 2004, Jo Ann Gora has won multiple awards and has been involved in five large projects, including two strategic plans and two capital campaigns. According to the university, during her 10 years as president, campus has seen $520 million of construction and renovations, some of which are ongoing. PROJECTS Education Redefined Strategic Plan In 2007 Gora launched the first strategic plan, Education Redefined.
The student who was stabbed in the upper arm during an attempted robbery at about 11:30 p.m. Saturday came forward to discuss his injuries and try to keep campus safe.
The best replacement for Jo Ann Gora would be a clone of Gora, said Jim Lowe, director of engineering and construction operations. “You want that person that’s in that leadership role,” he said.
Community leaders were surprised to hear that Ball State President Jo Ann Gora announced her plans to retire in June 2014.
Ball State President Jo Ann Gora, one of the university’s most prolific presidents announced plans today to retire next summer.
Ball State’s campus radio station celebrated its 25th year of broadcasting by launching a new mobile app and free food today. WCRD began broadcasting in 1988 as an AM station with the support of Ball State alumnus David Letterman and Ball State professor emeritus Darrell Wible.
The Haunted Ball will spook up the campus with a new theme this year, a masquerade. Masked students are invited from 9 tonight until midnight to the L.A.
Members of Student Government Association will reexamine a co-sponsorship bill that requests $6,000 for Greek Life organizations at their meeting Wednesday.
Joshua Sullivan stood on a balance board juggling three multicolored balls. The sophomore biology major has been juggling for five years, describing one year as “a whole year of pathetic.” After juggling, he started preparing for a fire breathing demonstration.
Patricia Nelson stood in the back room of Art and Journalism Building Room 123, dipping her gloved hands in a tub of sulfuric acid.
