Ind. - Ball State's annual BeneFacta Day Program celebrates university research and service projects on Friday, Sept. 15 in the L. A. Pittenger Student Center Cardinal Hall. The focus of this year's issue is on projects that benefit young people. The event will also highlight the opening of the Indiana Center on Early Childhood Education, to be housed at Ball State. Naomi Karp, director of the National Institute on Early Childhood Development and Education in Washington, D.C., will speak at 3 p.m. about children and education at the event. This year we recognize 168 faculty.
Funds come from sources such as federal and state agencies and various corporations.
Many of the supported projects deal with issues that directly benefit children and involve Ball State in collaboration with schools in Delaware County and elsewhere in Indiana. Teamwork in outer space, work with young people at Muncie's Community Center for the Arts and writing poetry in elementary school are some examples of funded projects that broaden and enrich children's lives.