Ball State trustees approve formation of College of Health
The new college's academic programs would include athletic training, nursing, speech pathology and psychology.
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IU, Ball State extend football rivalry into next decade
Indiana University will play Ball State University in football in four of the next five seasons, including a 2019 game at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, IU athletic director Fred Glass announced Thursday.
Ball State receives restitution from man convicted of fraud
Ball State University has received about $695,000 in restitution from one of two men convicted of stealing $13.1 million from the university.
Indy’s director of development leaving for IU gig
Adam Thies will leave the position he’s held since 2012 to join the university as its assistant vice president for capital planning and facilities. Thies starts his new job Aug. 17.
Ball State yet to receive any restitution in investment scam
Two men who were convicted of securities fraud after stealing $13.1 million from Ball State University have surrendered homes and sports memorabilia purchased with the money, but school officials say they haven't received any restitution.
Can innovation be taught? Yep, say professors
What do the Indiana entrepreneurship programs—two of which are nationally known—have to show for their efforts?
LOU’S VIEWS: Ball State poet’s new book combines dread, humor
“Dirty Bomb” is the latest book of poetry by Mark Neely, who recently landed one of 36 NEA creative writing grants,
Students learn important secrets behind cyber forensics
Digital forensics students take a rigorous course load that includes criminology, policing, criminal evidence, criminal law, computer science, computer security, digital forensics and geographic information systems.
Ball State architecture program holding its own
Years after the Great Recession battered construction, and consequently the architecture profession, the state’s largest architecture program survived by pitching itself as a top-flight school.
Attorney General says Ball State is not alone in ID theft
The 140 faculty and staff at Ball State make up just a portion of victims of such attacks targeting university employees across the country.
FBI, Anthem staff to visit Ball State after identity thefts
Staffers from the FBI and the Indiana attorney general's office will be among experts to visit Ball State University after at least 140 school employees' identities were stolen.
Identities stolen from at least 80 Ball State employees
A local senior home health specialist said he believes the identity thefts are connected to the recent cyberattack on Indianapolis-based health care insurer Anthem Inc., which covers Ball State employees.
Ball State foundation mulls changing investment policies
Ball State spokeswoman Joan Todd said any changes would be considered alongside the foundation's mission of "achieving maximum sustainable support" for the school.
Probe, questions linger after Ball State loses $13M to fraud
The men who engineered the scams now are in federal prison. Meanwhile, Gale Prizevoits, who served as Ball State’s director of cash and investments from 2006 until her firing in 2011, stands disgraced but hasn’t been charged.
Ball State sees sharp drop in teacher candidates
Teaching isn't making the grade as a career path for many students due to a string of recent trends.
Ex-prosecutor helps Ball State avert future fraud
The university first learned in September 2011 it had been the victim of an $8.1 million securities fraud, although officials say it began in 2008.
Ball State-birthed musical aims for Broadway
If the team behind “The Circus in Winter” has its way (and if enough money can be raised and script kinks worked out), the Ball State University-incubated musical might be the first Tony award winner conceived as a collaborative class project.
Ball State assumes $12.6 million loss in fraud
The chairman of the Ball State University board of trustees has told the State Budget Committee the school is operating under the assumption it won't be able to recover $12.6 million in fraudulent investments.
Data deluge prompts teacher colleges to extend training after graduation
Rattled by new state teacher ratings, the colleges hope to avoid black eyes, themselves.
Ball State AD leaving for Marquette University
Bill Scholl joined Ball State in April 2012 after he spent 23 years in athletics administration at the University of Notre Dame, including the last three as deputy athletic director.