Projects Ball State students will care for the elderly and disabled, serve the homeless, and tutor elementary students in the Muncie community through a grant from the Lilly Endowment. Thirteen faculty members received Partnerships for Successful Learning grants to integrate service learning into courses offered during the 1998-99 academic year. Stipends were awarded on a campus-wide competitive basis.
Students return to the classroom to reflect on their experience through papers or creative projects.
The center provides laboratory experience for Ball State students in infant and child development. It offers morning and afternoon preschool classes three days a week in addition to an infant-toddler program. Michael Sullivan was among six university-level teachers recognized recently by the National Council for Geographic Education, which honors outstanding geography teachers each year. The grant provides unrestricted supplemental funds for the museum's ongoing activities through September 2000. Only 186 of the nation's 5,000-plus museums received IMLS grants in this year's cycle.