Education

By: Michelle Kinsey— Muncie, IN – Fifty-five spellers are scheduled to compete in the fourth WIPB Spelling Bee, set for 9 a.m. Saturday, March 9, in Sursa Performance Hall, on the campus of Ball State University. WIPB will be broadcasting the regional bee LIVE as well as streaming the event on the PBS station’s website, www.wipb.org. Students will compete from schools in Delaware, Blackford, Jay, Randolph, Madison and Henry counties. The Ball State University Teachers College has generously contributed the funds to cover the Scripps fees for all of the schools to participate. The champion of the WIPB Spelling Bee…

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. to 6:00 p.m. 4301 South Cowan Road During the events, students will work alongside staff who will assist them with…

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 the assassination in 1968 of U.S. Sen. Robert Kennedy. After leaving journalism, he came to Ball State as the first…

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 Terre Haute, who also served as a Vigo County Council member from 1999 to 2004. In addition, Skinner was a…

By: Marc Ransford— With the potential of a major winter storm ready to slam into the Midwest, Marc Ransford writes about a Ball State geography professor’s study concerning why many people are scared of storms.  Muncie, IN—One in 10 Americans may suffer from severe weather phobia that causes them to lose sleep or have feelings of helplessness, says a researcher at Ball State University. “Severe weather phobia is very real,” says Jill Coleman, a Ball State geography professor and lead author on the study. “Some people will get physically ill or lose sleep while others will start watching weather forecasts…