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The University

Breadth + Focus

Shafer Tower at Ball State University

Shafer Tower at Ball State University

As a comprehensive university, Ball State offers a wealth of academic opportunities, including about 180 undergraduate majors and pre-professional programs, and more than 100 master’s and doctoral degrees. And our programs in architecture, telecommunications, landscape architecture, education, entrepreneurship, and online master’s degree in nursing are consistently ranked among the best in the nation. More than 90 percent of our classes are taught by professors.

Immersion + Exploration

Ball State believes that for an educational experience to be successful, it should be just that—an experience. So we’ve made a unique commitment to immersive learning programs that incorporate research, internships, and capstone experiences into the curriculum.

Impact + Engagement

In addition to preparing the state’s entrepreneurs, teachers, health care providers, scientists, designers, artists, and media and technology professionals, Ball State partners students and faculty with local leaders throughout Indiana to drive innovation in the state.

Technology + Innovation

Ball State is home to leading experts in emerging media, top-notch facilities and groundbreaking research. To continue our leadership in this area, Ball State recently announced the Emerging Media Initiative (www.bsu.edu/emergingmedia), a large investment to fund emerging media research, advance emerging media expertise of students, faculty and staff, and help faculty and students launch new emerging media businesses.

Facilities

Ball State Alumni Center

Ball State Alumni Center

Ball State Alumni Center

The 50,000-square-foot facility was designed by the internationally renowned architectural firm Pei, Cobb, Freed, and Partners, designers of such buildings as the addition to the Louvre and the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.

Letterman Building

Debuting in September 2007, the David Letterman Communication and Media Building is a leading-edge facility that connects an impressive three-building communications complex, supporting the College of Communication, Information and Media. The building’s $1 million production complex includes two recording studios, two control rooms, two isolation rooms, and five editing suites. It also boasts a clean, filtered, generator-protected, uninterrupted power supply for all critical digital systems.

David Letterman Communications and Media Building

David Letterman Communications and Media Building

Named for the university’s most prominent graduate and host of The Late Show with David Letterman, the building encloses about 75,000 square feet of classroom, studio, and faculty office space.

Ball Communication Building

In 1988, the Ball Communication Building (BC Building) opened a new door for technology at Ball State. The facility includes:

Arts and Journalism Building

One of the newer buildings on campus, the Arts and Journalism Building is a focal point of campus life and is home to the Department of Art and the Department of Journalism. The building includes:

  • Impressive dining and food court area
  • Art, photography and animation studios
  • The Atrium Gallery
  • Student media opportunities such as the Ball State Daily News, expo magazine, Ball Bearings on-line publication, and Cardinal Communications, a full service PR/advertising firm run exclusively by students.

Ball State Museum of Art

Ball State is home to one of the nation’s largest and finest university art museums, with a collection of nearly 11,000 works of art valued at more than $40 million. The collection areas include ancient, medieval, Renaissance, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, modern, Asian, and arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. The museum also houses European and American decorative arts and furniture as well as works on paper, including drawings, prints, and photographs. Another part of the collection features the Hoosier Group of Indiana painters.

Directions

Where is Muncie, IN?

Where is Muncie, IN?

via: http://www.bsu.edu/map/article/0,,31984–,00.html

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Lodging Options

The distance from the Indianapolis airport to Muncie is about 65 miles or 70 minutes. Take I-69 N off I-465 to exit 41 and go right. The hotels are visible on the left in about 5.5 miles (Lee Inn or Signature Inn) behind Star Bank. Rental cars or airport transport are available. Contact Ray Steele if you need assistance at rsteele@bsu.edu.

Lees Inn and Suites – Muncie

3302 North Everbrook Lane, Muncie, IN 47303
Phone: 765-282-7557
Email: muncie@leesinn.com
http://www.leesinn.com/muncie.htm
Price (with breakfast) $59
Limited number of rooms at this price, and deadline is 10/20/09.
Discount code: IDMAA.

Signature Inn of Muncie

3400 N. Chadam Lane, Muncie, IN 47304
765-284-4200
Email: muncie@signature-inn.com
http://www.signatureinns.com/Hotel_Detail.asp?ID=130
Price (with breakfast) = $61
Limited number of rooms at this price, and deadline is 10/29/09.
Discount code: IDMAA.