January 13, 2021
Dear Colleagues:
Our Ball State University football team has achieved great success in recent weeks.
The Cardinals won the Mid-American Conference championship on December 18. And on New Year’s Eve, our team won the Arizona Bowl, the first bowl victory in our University’s history.
This month, the players and coaches also appeared in an episode of “Peyton’s Places,” a football-themed documentary hosted by Peyton Manning. You can stream the episode—which features Ball State alumnus David Letterman—on ESPN+. I invite you to join me for our January 15 virtual watch party (see details below).
I am proud of our team’s achievements, and I am especially grateful for our student-athletes’ commitment to health and safety protocols this Fall. Their discipline allowed our season to happen.
On the field and in our classrooms, our entire student body has thrived during an unprecedented pandemic. Our students, faculty, and staff have all committed themselves to our University’s enduring value of social responsibility and to our Cardinals Care Pledge.
We define social responsibility as our collective and individual obligation to behave in ways that are in the best interest of others in our communities.
Our Spring semester begins on January 19. I am confident that our students, faculty, and staff will renew their dedication to social responsibility and our Pledge, and they will continue to do their part to mitigate the risk of transmission of the virus on campus once classes resume. To ensure we get off to a good start, students are fulfilling our requirement to be tested for COVID-19 before returning to campus.
Below are a few more stories that I hope you will enjoy and then share. Let your friends and colleagues know how “We Fly” at Ball State.
