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Students create action plans for local neighborhoods |
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Ball State’s new direction as an “entrepreneurial university” could change traditional learning and reorganize immersive learning. President Paul W. Ferguson’s Centennial Commitment called for Ball State to adapt to entrepreneurial learning. Immersive Learning Director Jenn Blackmer is the first person to hold her position, which organizes immersive learning under central leadership. She and the Strategic Planning Leadership Team are trying to determine what entrepreneurial learning will look like at Ball State. Blackmer said by the end of this semester she wants to have more of a concrete idea to answer that question. She plans to have a communications plan, faculty development and a new funding structure for the Provost Immersive Learning
The Blaine & Southeast neighborhood was Ball State’s recent Immersive Learning Project. Students worked with the neighborhood association to create a plan for that part of town. The map below shows where the neighborhood is located. Jackson Street
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Without the help of a Ball State immersive learning project, a local neighborhood would still be looking for direction, said the president of the Blaine Southeast neighborhood association. Clifford Clemons has been acting president of the neighborhood association since 2011, and was officially elected president about two months ago. “One day, we saw this fencedin area and wanted to know what was back there. We realized it had been an athletic field,” Clemons said. “We did some inquiring as far as who owned it and how could we get it, if possible.” After some digging, Clemons discovered that a former Blaine Southeast Neighborhood Association had owned it, but it dis-
banded around 2000. In order to get the property, Clemons had to reinstate the association and sign off as president. Clemons said right around the time the field was discovered, Muncie had instated its action plan, which called for creation or restoration of neighborhood associations. “We linked up with [the city] and they were the ones that helped us to start as far as reaching out to the community of the neighborhood to enlist other people to be a part of it,” Clemons said. The neighborhood was then ready to create an action plan, which is where Ball State came in. Lisa Dunaway, an architecture professor, led a class of urban planning students in an immersive learning class in Fall 2014.
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Grant completed or in the works by the fall. Entrepreneurial Learning Blackmer said some departments, when they hear “entrepreneurial,” think Ball State is transitioning into a business school, but that is not the university’s intention. Mike Goldsby, director of the Entrepreneurship Center, said at its core, entrepreneurship is about bringing something new into the world—looking at problems, finding solutions and getting other people to believe in those solutions. He said entrepreneurs are always looking ahead to see what comes next. “The base of entrepreneurship is opportunity,” Goldsby said. “Entrepreneurship is, when an opportunity comes, [having] confidence in skill and the mindset to pursue that opportunity.”
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Ball State loses early lead in game RILEY HOSPITAL at Kent State, drop 3-game series HONORS BALL STATE DANCE MARATHON Cardinals 2nd in West Division with 8-4 MAC record ERIC KUZNAR STAFF REPORTER | @EKuznar
The Ball State baseball team was unable to hold on to an early lead Sunday, losing 11-7 at Kent State for the second time in three days. “We had won 16 straight series,” Ball State head coach Rich Maloney said. “That was an incredible run. The law of averages just caught up with us.” After only needing two pitchers to get through Saturday’s 4-2 win, Maloney used five different pitchers Sunday, starting
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Junior infielder Ryan Spaulding had the highest batting average for the Cardinals over the weekend series against Kent State. Despite the loss on Sunday, Spaulding started off the game with an RBI that resulted in a one-run lead in the first inning.
with freshman Brendan Burns. Burns allowed two runs on five hits in 1.2 innings, and was replaced by B.J. Butler who earned the loss, allowing three runs in
2.1 innings. As a team, the Golden Flashes outhit the Cardinals 15-7. Ball State jumped out to a one-run lead in the first on a
RBI single from second baseman Ryan Spaulding that scored center fielder Matt Eppers. The Cardinals added another run in the second, when shortstop Elbert Devarie scored on a groundout from left fielder Scott Tyler. Kent State tied the score in the second inning, but it wasn’t until the fourth — where Kent State scored three runs — that the Golden Flashes pulled ahead for good. Ball States’s pitching staff struggled, allowing 15 hits and eight walks, while earning five strikeouts. The Cardinals’ offense came to life in the ninth, scoring five runs, but it was too little too late.
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Riley Hospital for Children has dedicated a room in the Stem Cell Unit to Ball State Dance Marathon in honor of the money they have raised for the hospital. After DM reached their goal of $500,000 this year, Ball State DM’s president Max Browning said the hospital wanted to find a way to honor them. “It really means a lot to us in the Dance Marathon move-
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ment,” Browning said. “It really shows that we’re not fighting only for those who come to our marathon, but we’re fighting for anyone who ever has to go through treatment at Riley Hospital.” Ball State DM has raised over $1.2 million for Riley Hospital for Children since 2003, according to bsudancemarathon.org. The hospital had already dedicated a room to Indiana University and Purdue University. The room is full of toys and games that children undergoing treatment are able to play with and enjoy.
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