College of Architecture and Planning

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Category: Urban Planning

  • CAP Grad Pioneers New Course
    February 10, 2021 by

    CAP grad pioneers new course: Engaging Communities of Color By Teresa Jeter, PhD, assistant teaching professor of urban planning Given the current climate in America where there is growing racial tension, disenfranchisement, and the marginalization of vulnerable populations, Scott Truex asked me to develop a course for Fall 2020 that would create a level of […]

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  • Planning grad Tez Hawkins shares advice
    February 5, 2021 by

    Curtez “Tez” Hawkins not only completed a planning degree at Ball State, but he also played football, an unusual feat for a CAP student. A native of St. Louis, he graduated with a BUPD in 2013 and is currently an associate planner with Eagle County Government in Vail, Colorado. To honor Black History Month, CAP […]

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  • Planning grad wins transportation scholarship
    February 5, 2021 by

    Madison Lindsay, BUPD 2020, is the winner of a scholarship from Institute of Transportation Engineers of Indiana. The award helped to  fund her last semester at Ball State in fall 2020. She currently works for Form G, a private development company in Clarksville, Ind., and is studying toward an MPA from IU. The scholarship competition is […]

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  • Urban Planning at the Mall?
    August 12, 2020 by

    The third floor in CAP is quiet most days, and not just because of social distancing and online classes, but because everybody is at the mall. Shopping? No, holding studio classes, of course! Last summer Chair Scott Truex saw an opportunity as college leadership and staff puzzled over how to fit CAP classes into spaces […]

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  • 2020: It’s Been Complicated
    July 26, 2020 by

    Although I like to share tidbits, I am typically reserved with what happens in my life especially behind the scenes. I am making this piece as a reflection of my 2020 timeline, making this an exemption (planning pun intended) to my normal lack of sharing. Things were not very complicated in the beginning of the […]

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  • In A Sunburnt Country
    July 26, 2020 by

    It smells like bushfire across Brisbane. Because it is fire. Backburning or a “fuel reduction burn” is underway as Australia can ill-afford to lose another 18.6 million hectares (46 million acres) to bushfire this coming summer. From our beach-side Christmas holidays, we coughed through thick haze and surfed, swam and paddled through eucalyptus ashes. It […]

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  • Urban Planning Student Inspired By Nature
    July 26, 2020 by

    Each year International Services in the Rinker Center for International Programs holds a photo contest for international students, and this past year CAP’s Anas Almassrahy won in the “Best Indiana Experience” category for this photo from Summit Lake State Park. Almassrahy holds a bachelor’s degree in urban planning and development from Ball State and is […]

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