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Engagement and Impact

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  • Alumni Award Winners 2025
    August 21, 2025 by

    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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  • 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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  • 5 Tips for Naming your OBSD Goose
    March 28, 2025 by

    Hundreds of geese are born every year with no name. Cardinals everywhere set out to solve this dilemma for One Ball State Day last year, giving over 330 geese names that fit their personality. Back by popular demand, we are once again asking Ball State alumni, friends, and fans to give these geese a name […]

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  • Adam K. Allen: The Fierce Red Bird
    January 31, 2025 by

    When Adam K. Allen graduated in 2016, he was frustrated by the lack of available production positions. The triple major took matters into his own hands and reached out to professionals he met while at Ball State, fostering new networks. Soon after, he launched Fierce Little Bird Productions based in Indianapolis, which he has operated […]

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  • The Frank A. Bracken Administration Building looks beautiful in the winter snow

    December Digital Calendars
    November 30, 2022 by

    Show your Cardinal pride and download these iconic campus images to display on your devices each month. Clicking the links below will open the wallpaper in your web browser. From there, you can save the image or set it as your background. December 2022 Desktop image with calendar Desktop image without calendar Phone

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  • Beneficence against fall-colored trees

    November Digital Calendars
    October 31, 2022 by

    Show your Cardinal pride and download these iconic campus images to display on your devices each month. Clicking the links below will open the wallpaper in your web browser. From there, you can save the image or set it as your background. November 2022 Desktop image with calendar Desktop image without calendar Phone

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