Month: August 2025

Alumni Award Winners 2025

August 21, 2025 by Ball State Foundation

Meet this year’s Alumni Award recipients. Ball State University alumni continue to make an impact around the world. From building nationally recognized companies to advancing education, healthcare, law, the arts, and more, their work inspires pride across the Cardinal community. Each year, the Ball State Alumni Awards honor individuals who have achieved career excellence, served […]

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More than $70,000 in grants awarded to local projects

August 12, 2025 by Ball State Foundation

Since 2002, the Ball State University philanthropic group Women of Beneficence (WOB) has granted more than $1 million and supported over 60 projects and programs that have impacted students and benefited our local, national, and international communities. In March 2025, three grants totaling over $70,000 were awarded. The first grant was awarded to Drs. Melissa […]

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Ensuring Access and Opportunity for Students

August 12, 2025 by Ball State Foundation

24 percent. That is the average graduation rate of first-generation college students in the U.S., according to FirstGen Forward, a nonprofit organization dedicated to first-generation student success, research, and advocacy. In contrast, the graduation rate of continuing-generation college students in the U.S. is 59 percent. Considering that first-generation students represent more than half of all […]

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“Be Good, Do Good”: A Commitment to Giving Back

August 12, 2025 by Ball State Foundation

For Rob and Julie Tyler, their connection to Ball State University runs deeper than just a diploma. Rather, their connection has been a rich source of providence, lifelong friendships, and foundational career moments—ultimately shaping their shared commitment to giving back. Rob’s story began with a pragmatic pursuit of accounting, a path quickly rerouted by an […]

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On A Mission To Engage

August 12, 2025 by Ball State Foundation

Gretchen Coffman, ‘88, still remembers the feeling of stepping outside the airport and into the busy London streets for the first time. A Ball State junior at the time, she arrived to work with oil and gas company British Petroleum (BP) as part of a summer program offered by The State University of New York […]

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Building A Legacy of Service and Generosity

August 12, 2025 by Ball State Foundation

As a student, Beth Snyder, ’78, was all-in: a major in accounting and minor in mathematics and computer science, a student-athlete on the women’s gymnastics team, a member and president of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, an orientation leader and more. And that all-in spirit has stayed with Beth, reflected in the energy and devotion […]

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