Together WE FLYNews for Ball State Faculty and Staff
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Stories of Gratitude October 15, 2019
In September, I wrote about improving how we communicate with you. As a result of your feedback, we are launching Together WE FLY, an e-newsletter for faculty and staff. Each month, I will write a story to demonstrate gratitude, one of our University’s enduring values.
This month, I would like to express my gratitude for the professors who attend the New Faculty Academy.
Provost Susana Rivera-Mills and I have a series of breakfasts each Fall at Bracken House with our new tenure-track faculty. It’s our way of extending a warm welcome. But it is also inspiring to us to hear their backgrounds and their goals. Join me in thanking: Allison Hitt, Nadra Pencle, Ben Angelo, Benjamin Downs, Shiau-Yun Chen, Seo-Young Byun, Ellen Whitehead, Kelly Boyer Ontl, Zoran Jakovcic, Yu-Fang Chen, Kelsey Thiem, Dina Zemke, Robin Phelps-Ward, Robert Haney, Michael Lorsung, Douglas Roossien, Jordan Froese, Wei Shi, Noelle Giuffrida, Kristin Reeves, Rachel Cohn, Chang Liu, Paul Niekamp, Minh Nguyen, Lauren Mims, Michael Mackay, Kristin Trainor, Dane Minnick, Joe Court, Adam Thatcher, Michael Rafter, Regina Giraldo-Garcia, Sungwon Chung, Gabriel Tait, Ann Hildner, Jeremy Merrill, Jerry DeHondt, and Natalie Kruzliakova.
I am grateful that they have chosen to embrace our mission and to pursue their professional aspirations at our University.
Sincerely,
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For Your BenefitPayroll and Employee Benefits
The goals of Destination 2040: Our Flight Path include having a positive and vibrant culture of wellbeing that helps our faculty and staff lead engaged and meaningful lives. We are proud to offer quality healthcare benefits. We invite you to learn about the new offerings during open enrollment, October 22 through November 8. For more information, please attend an open session, review the packets sent to your home, and after October 22, visit the Payroll and Employee Benefits website.
Working Well
Working Well invites you to participate in the Gratitude Challenge, in November and December. This is one way you can demonstrate gratitude, one of our University’s enduring values, and contribute to your own wellbeing and your department's. This challenge can be a group activity or an individual challenge (or both). For more information about how to participate, visit the Working Well website.
New Academic Calendar
The academic calendar for 2020-21 has been published. Visit the academic calendar webpage to find important dates and deadlines for 2020-21 and view the current academic year.
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Homecoming Week
through October 19, 2019
Homecoming Week provides an opportunity for you to show your Cardinal pride. Homecoming includes traditions such as bed races, the parade, and CharlieTown tailgating. The week culminates at Scheumann Stadium with the football team playing the University of Toledo Rockets at 2 p.m. Saturday, October 19. Purchase a ticket for this game and a portion will benefit the United Way.
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Health Professions Building Dedication
October 18, 2019, 3 p.m.
The new, $62.5 million, 165,000-square-foot building features classrooms, laboratories, offices, a resource hub, simulation labs/suites, and clinical spaces. Most importantly, it is designed for interprofessional education—physical and educational interaction between academic departments within the College of Health. This is the future of health care.
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Multicultural Center Groundbreaking
October 19, 11 a.m.
Our new Multicultural Center, east of Bracken Library, will be at the heart of campus, where it belongs. The $4 million, approximately 10,500-square-foot facility will open in 2020. It will include open collaborative space for student organizations and peer advocate leaders; a multipurpose room for meetings, presentations, and other functions; administrative offices; exhibition space for cultural art work that represent the values of inclusive excellence; and a small café.
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University News BriefsR. Wayne Estopinal College of Architecture and Planning
Today, the R. Wayne Estopinal College of Architecture and Planning will introduce state legislators and Indianapolis community leaders to Ball State CAP: INDY and the Center for Civic Design on the former Angie’s List campus in downtown Indianapolis. Ball State CAP: INDY is the only Indianapolis-based higher education initiative focused on the comprehensive planning, design, and building of cities, towns, neighborhoods, and places. Through the new Center for Civic Design, Ball State teams are providing design, planning, and visioning support to neighborhoods, community organizations, and civic leaders. Learn more about Ball State CAP:INDY.
Miller College of Business
Know a Ball State student who is a budding entrepreneur? The Miller College of Business is supporting these bright, ambitious students with the Pre-Seed Fund, which provides a grant of up to $2,500 per student per semester. Launched this year, this opportunity is open to all Ball State students. These grants are designed to assist students who are in the early stages of venture creation and enable development. Funding can be used to advance venture development and reach milestones including, but not limited to, securing intellectual property, prototype development, product validation, or competing in external venture competitions to raise awareness or additional funds for their venture. Learn more about the Pre-Seed Fund.
College of Communication, Information, and Media
Unmasked: Recovery to Redemption is the second in an ongoing series of immersive learning partnerships with the Ball Brothers Foundation to address drug addiction in Delaware County. Under the supervision of Juli Metzger, associate lecturer in the College of Communication, Information, and Media (CCIM), the most recent iteration resulted in an updated website and magazine. Recovery to Redemption builds on the original award-winning project in 2016-17—led by Juli and CCIM colleague Terry Heifetz. The Unmasked project will be featured at two upcoming events organized by the Delaware County Prevention Council: a screening at 6 p.m. Thursday, October 17, of the original documentary, Unmasked: The Stigma of Meth, followed by a panel discussion at the Cornerstone Center for the Arts Colonnade Room and at the 24th Annual Delaware County Red Ribbon Community Breakfast at 7 a.m. Tuesday, October 22, at the Horizon Convention Center.
College of Fine Arts
The College of Fine Arts is offering a variety of arts and entertainment events. The School of Music will host Billboard Chart-topping string quintet SYBARITE5 as part of its Arts Alive! Concert Series at 7:30 p.m. Friday, November 8, at Sursa Hall. The Department of Theatre and Dance will produce Dead Man’s Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl at Strother Theatre on October 18-19, 22-26 at 7:30 p.m. and October 20 at 2:30 p.m. You can receive discounts for these events.
At the David Owsley Museum of Art, enjoy Recent Acquisitions: Connecting to the Past, Committing to the Future through December 20. The exhibition features nearly 100 works of art new to the museum’s collection, including works from Africa, Asia, North America, Europe, and the Pacific Islands. The School of Art presents its MFA 1st and 2nd Year Exhibition Show in the Ned and Gloria Griner Art Gallery in the Art and Journalism Building from Tuesday, October 22, to Friday, November 1. Admission to both exhibitions is free. College of Health
The Healthy Lifestyle Center (HLC) is now open in the new Health Professions Building. This clinic is open to all faculty, staff, students, and Muncie community members. The HLC provides information, consultation, and support for making healthy lifestyle choices and adopting healthy behaviors. All of its services are free and include individual meetings related to diet, physical activity, behavior change, mental health, medical education, navigating socio-economic challenges, hearing, and speech. The HLC also offers health-related assessment services, including an audiology clinic, and provides healthy lifestyle workshops and programs. Learn more about the HLC.
College of Sciences and Humanities
The Book Arts Collaborative, an immersive learning course and student-managed business in MadJax, will have two community workshops this month.
Tim Geiger, book artist, poet, and associate chair of the English department at the University of Toledo, will lead participants in three methods of paper decorating, suminagashi, paste paper, and xerographic designs, on Wednesday, October 23, from 6-9 p.m.
A linked-stitch sketchbook making workshop will take place on Saturday, October 26, from 11 a.m.- 4 p.m. Participants from the October 23 paper decorating workshop with Tim Geiger get a 20% discount.
Teachers College
For the 2019–2020 academic year, Project Lead The Way (PLTW) is teaming up with Teachers College (TC) to pilot its inaugural PLTW Launch Pre-Service Teacher Training Program. PLTW is a nonprofit organization that provides transformative learning experiences for pre-K-12 students and teachers through pathways in computer science, engineering, and biomedical science.
The PLTW Launch Pre-Service Teacher Training Program will introduce students pursuing a bachelor of arts degree in education to PLTW’s activity-, project-, and problem-based (APB) learning approach and PLTW Launch, its pre-K-5 STEM program. Read more about this partnership.
You can also enjoy seeing the women’s volleyball team in action for a reasonable price, and watch cross country, soccer, and field hockey competitions for free. For more information, visit the Ball State Athletics website. Building on a year with several successes—including student-athletes’ record-high overall grade point average of 3.27, the approval of an indoor practice facility, and more than $12.4 million of commitments in support of student-athletes—Director of Athletics Beth Goetz has announced the release of Onward, the strategic plan that will guide the athletics department toward its goals through 2024.
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Since May 1, Dr. Marsha McGriff has served as associate vice president for inclusive excellence. Dr. McGriff oversees the Office of Inclusive Excellence, which serves the campus in the areas of inclusive excellence training and development, educational resources, and expert knowledge and support in diversity and inclusion issues and initiatives. She has led the campus in the creation of its first inclusive excellence strategic plan.
“With her knowledge and experience, Marsha is taking our University’s efforts to recruit and retain a more diverse and inclusive student body, faculty, and staff, and lead the President’s Advisory Council on Inclusive Excellence initiative to the next level,” said Chief Strategy Officer Dr. Sue Hodges Moore.
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