November 24, 2025
Bette Smith will serve as director of Ball State University’s Center for Innovation and Collaboration (CIC), effective Jan. 5, 2026.
November 24, 2025
Ball State University will present the national tour of Menopause The Musical 2: Cruising Through ‘The Change’® at Emens Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, April 27, 2026.
November 12, 2025
Ball State University’s Department of Theatre and Dance will present Goodnight, Tyler by playwright B.J. Tindal, with original dramaturgy by Mansi Sahay Seth and direction by Lisa Gaye Dixon.
October 29, 2025
Ball State University will present the North American tour of "Tina – The Tina Turner Musical" at Emens Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 19.
October 28, 2025
Ball State University will present award-winning comedian, writer, and actor John Mulaney at Emens Auditorium at 7 p.m. Sunday, March 1, 2026, as part of his national tour, "Mister Whatever."
October 21, 2025
Ball State University welcomes the multi-Grammy® and Emmy Award®-winning Soweto Gospel Choir to Emens Auditorium for a free performance at 7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 3.
October 20, 2025
Ball State University is welcoming award-winning author Christina Diaz Gonzalez to campus this Fall as the guest author for the University’s annual Writer-in-Residence program.
October 9, 2025
Everyone’s favorite Scottish nanny is headed to Muncie this month when the hit musical 'Mrs. Doubtfire' takes the stage at Ball State University’s Emens Auditorium for a 7:30 p.m. Oct. 30 performance.
September 29, 2025
Ball State University’s Department of Theatre and Dance presents "The Brementown Musicians"—based on stories by the Grimm Brothers and adapted for the stage by Alison Gregory—Oct. 17-19 and 21-25 at Korsgaard Dance Studio in Ball Gymnasium.
September 26, 2025
The Ball State University Board of Trustees on Friday received updates on Fall 2025 enrollment and the continued progress of its historic partnership with Muncie Community Schools (MCS).
September 22, 2025
Ball State University will celebrate its 99th Homecoming Oct. 13–18, as Cardinals everywhere are invited back to campus to take part in a week of pride, tradition, and community spirit.
September 17, 2025
Ball State University will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly expanded Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Honors House at 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26, at 1707 W. Riverside Ave. in Muncie
September 16, 2025
Ball State University employees and retirees are once again joining together to support the Heart of Indiana United Way through the University’s annual United Way campaign, which began Sept. 15 and continues through Nov. 21.
September 12, 2025
Ball State University’s Department of Theatre and Dance will present William Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy Romeo and Juliet, Sept. 26-28, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. each evening at the Brown Family Amphitheater.
September 12, 2025
Mwezi “Badru” Mugerwa, the winner of the 2025 Indianapolis Prize Emerging Conservationist Award, will be a guest lecturer at Ball State at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 30.
September 11, 2025
Ball State University’s Estopinal College of Architecture and Planning (ECAP) will host a grand opening celebration for its newly launched downtown space from 5-8 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 2, at 306 S. Walnut Street in Muncie.
September 10, 2025
This Fall, the David Owsley Museum of Art (DOMA) at Ball State University presents two significant exhibitions: one that features international abstraction and another that explores Indiana storytelling through photography.
September 3, 2025
Art historian and philanthropist David T. Owsley, HHD ‘05—heir to the Ball-Mason canning jar company and a longtime supporter of Ball State University and the Dallas Museum of Art—died in New York City on Aug. 23, 2025, at age 96.
September 2, 2025
Ball State University’s Department of Theatre and Dance presents Jason Robert Brown’s "Songs for a New World"—a powerful, genre-blending theatrical song cycle—Sept. 5-7 and 9-14, at Korsgaard Dance Studio in Ball Gymnasium.
August 29, 2025
Ball State University’s School of Music will host the fifth National Sursa American Organ Competition—bringing some of the nation’s most talented young organists to campus—Sept 6-7, 2025.
August 27, 2025
Ball State University will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its Alexander M. Bracken Library with a community birthday party from 6-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9, in the library’s main lobby.
August 26, 2025
The upcoming Fred Meyer Lecture in Cultural Policy and Arts Advocacy—in partnership with the Center for Economic and Civic Learning’s 2025 Conference on Civic Studies and Democracy at Ball State—features Michael Greer, president and CEO of ArtsFund Seattle.
August 14, 2025
Ball State University and its Estopinal College of Architecture and Planning (ECAP) have signed a two-year lease for the first floor of the historic Columbia Theater Building at 306 S. Walnut Street in downtown Muncie.
August 12, 2025
Ball State University’s Teachers College, in collaboration with Ball State Online, has partnered with Muncie Community Schools (MCS) to expand the district’s leadership pipeline by supporting current educators who aspire to become school leaders.
July 19, 2025
Ball State University celebrated its Class of 2025 on Saturday, conferring more than 1,300 doctoral, specialist, master’s, and bachelor’s degrees during its Summer Commencement ceremony.