Starting a new job can be both exciting and overwhelming, especially in a field as dynamic as information technology in the higher education space. To properly welcome new faculty and ensure their success, Information Technology designed, printed and assembled welcome boxes to greet our new colleagues. Faculty members and student workers met several times over […]
Melissa Sorrell has been working at Ball State University for 20 years as the UTS Labs Manager and is currently in a phase-out of retirement. Sorrell hopes to spend her free time after retirement working full-time at the Animal Rescue Fund (ARF) to help animals find their forever homes. Sorrell’s volunteering journey began at ARF. […]
IT has been working hard on introducing the new Computer Science and Data Science graduate programs to Coursera. Coursera is one of the world’s largest online learning platforms. In an article provided by the Ball State University Press Center, President Mearns spoke highly on the program and its importance to the university and Indiana as […]
Fran Tucker retired in January after 33 years of service at Ball State University. Tucker worked for EPS as their Equipment Manager, VIS as the Operations Manager, and as a HelpDesk Technical Support member. When asked about her favorite memories from Ball State University she said, “I loved the picnic and One Ball State Day.” […]
On August 3rd Josh Shaffer was awarded a 2023 IT Director Award for his outstanding contributions to the goals of Information Technology as part of the Digital Corps’ work on the new Lifetime Learning initiative. Shaffer started working as a full-time designer with the Digital Corps in 2016. He spends the majority of his Corps […]
Chuck Gin, Enterprise Application Specialist for Enterprise Information Systems, has been a professional staff member at Ball State since January 2019. Gin is known for his can-do attitude, great work ethic, and willingness to tackle any task — even if it means coming in on weekends to update systems on campus. On August 3rd he […]
Nick Baumgartner is the manager of Digital Accessibility Services at Ball State University and the President of Indiana Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD). Baumgartner attended the AHEAD conference not only as the President of the organization, but also as Ball State’s national delegate. Alongside Baumgartner were other Ball State faculty and staff who […]
Paul Xiong, a Ball State graduate who received his master’s degree in 1989, recently made a $1 million planned gift to Information Technology to show his appreciation for the program and Ball State. Xiong applied to Ball State after seeing an ad in a book, and he considers Ball State to be the beginning of […]
Ball State EPSO faculty members recently volunteered for Second Harvest Food Bank of East Central Indiana. The non-profit organization has been around since 1983 and is a member of Feeding America, the largest domestic hunger-relief organization in America. Laura Means, a Project Manager of Enterprise System Analytics for Ball State EPSO, was one of the […]
Ben Yonker, Producer and Director for Ball State University Media Services, recently won an Emmy for his production of Sunny Days: Meet the Founding Mothers of Ball State PBS. Yonker was in the industry long before he graduated from college and has been a part of several productions. Yonker and other members of Ball State […]
