Ball State University is celebrating the centennial anniversary of its founding. The 100th anniversary spider web pages offer links to a diverseness of resources including a curt video, "From Normal to Extraordinary," an updated centennial history, together with links to diverse planned events. Frank C. Ball together with his brothers purchased the terra firma together with buildings that previously served every 2d
Muncie Normal Institute together with later, Muncie National Institute, 2 of several attempts to supply higher didactics inward the urban heart inward the belatedly 1800's together with early on 1900's. They donated the holding to the terra firma of Indiana which together with then opened the Indiana State Normal School Eastern Division inward 1918.
In recognition of the Ball family’s generosity, the Indiana General Assembly
changed the school's nurture to Ball Teachers College inward 1922, together with then Ball State Teachers College inward 1929, together with to Ball State University inward 1965.
