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Ball State president asks lawmakers for $88.4M to modernize library, $1.5M line item to expand talent pipelines
Summary
Ball State University President presented capital and operating requests to the Senate Appropriations Committee: $88.4 million requested for a library-to‑learning‑commons conversion, $1.5 million per year for a new talent‑pipeline line item, and a call for base operating increases tied to outcomes funding.
President Geoffrey Mearns told the committee Ball State's top capital priority is a major renovation of the university library — a project estimated at $140 million total, for which the university requests $88.4 million from the state. He described the library as heavily used but designed in the 1970s, and said the planned scope includes infrastructure…
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