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Majority of Ball State alumni satisfied after college, survey shows

More than 80 percent of graduates from 13 Indiana public and private colleges say their education was worth the cost, according to the results of the first Gallup-Indiana Graduate Satisfaction Survey released by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education.




John Allen Seidel, professor of trombone, passed away June 10 at age 67. PHOTO COURTESY OF JON SEIDEL
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Professor of trombone dies at age 67

John Allen Seidel, a Ball State professor for 24 years, passed away Friday, June 10, 2016, at the age of 67. He was born Oct. 1, 1948, to Charles Seidel and Elsie (Reinert) Seidel in Reading, Pa.


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Class of 2016 graduates

Around 2,800 people received their diplomas and became Ball State alumni for the Class of 2016 on May 7. 


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Graduation Day Forecast

MUNCIE, IN (NewsLink Indiana) -- It's graduation day and there are a few rain chances in the forecast.




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INVESTIGATION: Daily News discovers Ball State Fact Book data errors and misrepresentations

The past few years have treated the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences well, whether it’s been the announcement of McKinley Commons (now on hold), partnering with hotels in Downtown Muncie, renovations to facilities in the Applied Technology Building or large increases in online enrollment. But that didn’t show when looking at Ball State’s College of Applied Science and Technology Fact Book. Department headcount — a measure of how many students are in a department — showed the department had a 42 percent decrease in enrollment between 2010-11 and 2014-15, going from 1,612 students to 937 students in just five years. However, there were discrepancies. “We never had 1,600 students.







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