Ball State Foundation Blog

Engagement and Impact

Month: August 2025

  • Women of Beneficence Award $70,000+ in Grants
    August 12, 2025 by

    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

    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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  • On A Mission To Engage
    August 12, 2025 by

    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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