Sue Ellen Guillaud, an assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Classics, presents a bingo card for French vocabulary during the Entrepreneurial Learning Academy.

Lecturing and memorization take a back seat at the inaugural eight-week academy, as 10 faculty members hone classroom creativity.

Seniors Nora Hillard and Charity Munro sift through artifacts in a Department of Anthropology lab.

An immersive learning experience continues Ball State research that began five years ago at the site of the Army installation Fort Recovery.

A portrait of theater professor Karen Kessler.

Karen Kessler creates a safe, collaborative area to lead her actors through comedies, musicals and plays that can be emotionally difficult.

Clay Miller sits in the back of the family van which is loaded with his items for Ball State.

Amid packing and goodbyes, Clay Miller and his Ball State alumni parents recall the Florida school that once topped his list and the talk that changed his mind.

Dora Lott walks down the street in the downtown of Farmland, Indiana.

Dora Lott of Farmland, Indiana, loves trig, buys vintage and watches “Friends,” but is two years younger than most of her fellow freshmen.

A software executive talks with two Ball State students during their trip to Atlanta.

Seven students in an immersive learning project travel to Turner Classic Movies in Atlanta to help promote older films among younger viewers

Two adults help a young girl as she rides a horse in a barn.

A camp staffed by students in a Ball State immersive learning program is a confidence-builder for more than two dozen Blackford County schoolchildren.