Office of Community Engagement

Category: Programs

  • ACL celebrates its 70th cohort of leaders
    November 20, 2024 by

    More than two dozen community members completed the 70th Academy for Community Leadership in 2024. That milestone was celebrated on November 7 at Horizon Convention Center. This unique, 10-week program is offered by the Greater Muncie Chamber of Commerce and Ball State’s Office of Community Engagement. Our own Suzie Jones co-leads the ACL each year […]

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  • OCE welcomes new team member!
    December 5, 2023 by

    In November, the Office of Community Engagement welcomed Lucinda Stipp to the team! Lucinda is the new Coordinator for the Training, Resource and Advocacy Connector (TRAC). The East Central Indiana Region was awarded $15 million in funds from the State of Indiana’s Regional Economic Acceleration & Development Initiative (READI) program in 2021. In late 2022, […]

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  • OCE Welcomes Jeri McCorkle as Program Manager for TRAC
    July 18, 2023 by

    Jeri McCorkle has been named Program Manager for the new Training, Resource and Advocacy Connector (TRAC), part of the East Central Indiana Talent Collaborative (ECITC). TRAC was developed to support local early care and learning providers in the ECITC’s nine-county region – Blackford, Delaware, Fayette, Grant, Henry, Jay, Randolph, Rush and Wayne. “I am passionate […]

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    A new way to ‘Experience Muncie’ offered at E.B. Ball Center
    March 13, 2023 by

    The E.B. and Bertha C. Ball Center is offering a new way to “Experience Muncie.” Beginning March 29, the center will offer an “Experience Muncie” course specifically created for the English language learner. This noncredit class was designed to provide stimulating intellectual opportunities to English language learners through presentations, conversations, and field trips to familiarize […]

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  • Suzie Jones sits at a table with three children who are coloring Charlie Cardinal

    Charlie Cardinal gets a makeover
    February 21, 2023 by

    Preschoolers participate in annual Charlie’s Coloring Challenge Charlie Cardinal, the Ball State University mascot, has never looked better. Or more colorful. The children at United Day Care Center took some time on a recent afternoon to color in their feathered friend as part of the annual Charlie’s Coloring Challenge. Scarlett Reed, 4, was putting the […]

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