Because of Ball State...COMM IS GREAT!
Thank you SO Much for considering donating to the Department of Communication Studies! Your generous gift will be used to support students in our classes, as well as those who excel in our nationally ranked speech and debate teams.
This year, we are ready to ROCK! Just look at our hourly challenges! Whether Kathy has to appear as an '80s fashion crisis, Glen's ceramic turtles get immortalized, or Beth and Scarlett must devour unsavory snacks, the COMM faculty wants our students, their parents, our beloved alumni, and our dear friends to know that we succeed because of you: our Ball State family!
We remember Mike Bauer...
As you consider your gift for One Ball State Day this year, please help us honor Mike Bauer's memory by donating to the Michael Bauer Debate Fund (details below)!
Mike Bauer was a cherished member of the Communication Studies Department and a dedicated educator at Ball State University for 34 years. Even though he left us too soon, Mike's passion for debate and his commitment to student success left an enduring legacy within our department and among the thousands of students and alumni whose lives he touched.
Please direct your gift to one or more of the following five funds
The Michael Bauer Debate Fund recognizes Mike Bauer's enduring coaching and program-building legacy. Our goal this year is to raise enough funding to signify Mike's monumental contributions to Ball State's nationally recognized debate program.
Our Debate Enhancement Fund supports our nationally ranked student debaters...who need lots of $$$ to travel to debate tournaments. The more funding we receive, the more students can develop their debate skills by participating in debates near and far.
Our Individual Events (Speech) Enhancement Fund helps things such as helping us maintain BSU's status as a national speech legend! The more the speech team travels and competes, the better we get! It's that simple. We need you.
Our General Fund lifts up the Communication Studies Department by supporting things such as, immersive classroom opportunities, events like the Big Talk Showcase, bringing speakers to campus, funding alumni networking initiatives, and providing professional development opportunities for our students.
Our Communication Studies Master's Student Development Fund supports graduate students in multiple ways. It supports activities such as travel, so that our graduate students can learn from senior academics and present their own scholarly work at regional and national conferences. It also helps us to recruit the best and brightest graduate students...and once they arrive, it helps us to support them with material resources to excel in their coursework.
You can contribute to these special challenges ALL DAY LONG!
Michael Bauer Debate Fund
If the Michael Bauer Debate Fund raises $1,500 by NOON, it will unlock a $1,500 gift from awesome debate alumn Neil Alldredge.
Thirty donations throughout the day to the Michael Bauer Debate Fund will unlock a $1,000 match from Dr. Laura O'Hara.
Twenty-five alumni donor gifts to the Michael Bauer Debate Fund throughout the day will unlock the debate team debating on a topic area chosen by an alumni donor (randomly selected; please mention your topic of choice in the memo line).
Individual Events (Speech) Enhancement Fund
Twenty alumni donors to the Speech Team (Individual Events Enhancement Fund) throughout the giving day will unlock a $250 match from Dr. Carrie Shue.
Forty gifts to the Speech Team (Individual Events Enhancement Fund) throughout the giving day will unlock Spencer Coile's performance in a stunning music video.
The Debate Enhancement Fund
Twenty alumni donors to the Debate Enhancement Fund throughout the giving day will unlock a $250 match from Dr. Carrie Shue.
Twenty alumni donors to the Communication Studies Master's Student Development Fund throughout the giving day will unlock a $250 match from Dr. Carrie Shue.
Communication Studies General Fund
Twenty gifts to the Communication Studies General Fund throughout the day will unlock a $500 match from Dr. Laura O’Hara.
Trying to decide when to give to the Department of Communication Studies? This handy guide will help you decide!
12 AM – 8 AM: Twenty-five gifts will unlock Dr. Glen Stamp naming his beloved ceramic turtles after three randomly selected donors.
8 AM – 12 PM: Fifty gifts will unlock Dr. Beth Messner and Dr. Scarlett Hester going stomach-to-stomach in a mortal battle of "Fill your guts or spill your guts" (high stakes "truth or dare!").
12 PM – 2 PM: Forty gifts to the Communication Studies Master's Student Development Fund will unlock Dr. Kathy Denker serving the looks as an 80's FASHION CRISIS! No joke! This will be RAD!
2 PM – 4 PM: Twenty gifts will unlock Dr. Courtney Dreyer's appearance as Tiffany--Bride of Chucky for all of her classes. BOO!
4 PM – 6 PM: Twenty-five gifts will unlock Christine Sprunger wearing a Buc-ee Beaver outfit to work.
6 PM – 7 PM: Twenty gifts will unlock Melanie Turner "keeping Candy Handy": by handing out candy to anyone who comes to her office for a week!
7 PM – 8 PM: Thirty gifts will unlock Will Reid modeling his new ALL PINK WARDROBE for his classes.
8 PM – 12 AM: Fifty gifts will unlock the Graduate Students getting into a silly-string battle!!
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