Articles by Mike Rhodes

Ball State Meteorologist Says Impending Sub-Zero Temps Should Be Taken Seriously

By: Ball State Marketing & Communications— Muncie, Indiana – The potential for subzero weather in the next few days should be taken seriously, says Jill Coleman, a meteorologist at Ball State University. She notes the National Weather Service (NWS) has issued wind chill watch/extreme cold advisory from Tuesday evening through Thursday morning for most of Indiana. The combination of a southward moving continental Arctic air mass combined with moderate-strong sustained wind speeds (about 20 mph) can create dangerously low wind chill…

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Boys and Girls Clubs of Muncie ‘Great Futures Dinner’ Raises Over $56K

By: Amy Logan— Muncie, IN—The Boys & Girls Clubs of Muncie would like to thank the generous donors and sponsors of this year’s Great Futures Dinner. The event, held on January 24 at the Horizon Convention Center in Muncie, raised $56,556.45. (A 146 percent increase over last year.) The Muncie community came together for one night to celebrate the 85th anniversary of  the Boys & Girls Club of Muncie. For the past 85 years Boys & Girls Clubs of Muncie,…


Ivy Tech Community College To Offer Express Enrollment Registration Events In Muncie

By: Shawn Carmichael— Muncie, Indiana – Ivy Tech Community College will be offering several Express Enrollment events on January 31, February 7, 13, 14, 21, and 28 at their Muncie Cowan Road location. Express Enrollment offers prospective students a “one-stop” experience in the enrollment process and does not require an appointment. Muncie Campus Express Enrollment Center January 31 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. February 7, 14, 21, and 28 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. February 13 from 9:00 a.m….


Ball State Mourns The Passing Of Veteran Journalist And Professor Steve Bell

By: Ball State Marketing and Communications— Muncie, Indiana – Ball State University and the Muncie community is mourning the passing of Steve Bell, a veteran national broadcast journalist and a longtime telecommunications professor. Bell, 83, who taught at Ball State from 1992 to 2007, died Friday. During his long and storied career in journalism for ABC News, he was on the front lines of several major historical events, including the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal of the early 1970s, and…


Opinion: Cradle To Career—Mobilizing A Community Approach To Public Education

By: James R. Williams— Horace Mann founded the common school movement that formed the basis for universal American public education. When Mann’s work started in the 1840s, the Industrial Revolution was underway. Americans were educating students to work in an agrarian, mercantile, and light industrial economy. “Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men [and women], and the balance wheel of social machinery.”—Horace Mann   Public schools adapted as we…


Ontario Systems and Anderson University Have Partnered to Create an Immersive Career-Prep Program for Tech Students

By: Sean Rogers— Muncie, IN– When business and academia converge, it’s good news for students, employers, and the greater community. East Central Indiana received some good news of its own when Muncie-based Ontario Systems and neighboring Anderson University introduced “The Cube,” an on-campus tech talent incubator designed to prepare students at the School of Science and Engineering for future careers. “We are genuinely excited about this partnership with Anderson University,” said Jason Harrington, President of Ontario Systems. “This is a great opportunity…


John Carlson: ‘Raise The Lid, Dude.’

By: John Carlson— The other day while reading about the latest advancements in household technology, this came up. Smart toilets. It shouldn’t have surprised me, I guess. Everything else is smart these days. Smart phones. Smart cars. Smart whatever.  If I wait long enough, maybe there will be smart golf balls that make their way unerringly into the cup, no matter how bad you suck at golf. As a person who has actually teed off on holes where my golf…


Cornerstone Center for the Arts and PrimeTrust Federal Credit Union Young Artist Exhibition Announced

By: Sarah Shaffer— Muncie, IN—Cornerstone Center for the Arts, in partnership with PrimeTrust Federal Credit Union, will host the Young Artist Exhibition on Thursday, March 14 for school-age children in Delaware County. The show will feature the artwork of students in kindergarten through twelfth grades who reside in or attend school in Delaware County. The public reception on March 14 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. will take place in the Colonnade Room at Cornerstone Center for the Arts with awards being announced…


Representative For ICPE to Address Status of Education at AAUW Meeting

By: Sheryl Swingley— Muncie, IN—A representative of the Indiana Coalition for Public Education will be the guest speaker for the next American Association of University Women, Muncie Branch, from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Jan. 26, at Motivate Our Minds, 2023 E. Highland Ave. The topic of the discussion will be “The State of Public Education in Indiana.” The meeting is open to the public. The ICPE speaker is Tim Skinner, a former three-term member of the Indiana Senate from…


3 Ball State Programs Earn Top 25 Rankings In U.S. News & World Report

By: Marc Ransford— Muncie, IN—Three Ball State University online programs finished in the top 25 in national rankings released recently by U.S. News & World Report. Since U.S. News started ranking online programs six years ago, Ball State has always had degrees in the top 25. Those recognized in the 2019 “Best Online Programs” are: 13th – Master of Business Administration (MBA) 13th – Graduate nursing 25th – Bachelor’s degrees Each program improved from its 2018 ranking. The MBA climbed…