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Attendees at a September Book Arts Collaborative workshop spend time creating their own 100-page, hard-backed blank books.

Working out of an old Muncie warehouse, professors immerse 17 students from diverse academic backgrounds in the craft of making books.

Photo shows the exterior of Ball State's Fishers Center for Academic and Economic Innovation during a ribbon-cutting.

The Center for Academic and Economic Innovation — Fishers, adjoining a co-working space in the bustling city, is poised to be a hub of entrepreneurship.

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.

Associate Professor of Flute Mihoko Watanabe plays the flute against a backdrop of student artwork in the Art and Journalism Building.

Mihoko Watanabe helps designs a program starting this fall that stresses skills such as grant-writing and pitching proposals to nonprofits.

Jennifer Blacker and Mike Goldsby discuss entrepreneurial learning.

They discuss the teaching style key to Ball State becoming a top student-centered and community-engaged 21st-century public research institution.

The Beneficence statue

Ball State officials navigate doubts as they try to sell entrepreneurial learning, a student-driven teaching method that touts risk-taking and creativity.

Faculty members David Concepción, Tayla Lee, Abdel Bidaoui, Kristen McCauliff and Melinda Messineo chat over coffee.

The new program helps 50 junior faculty members in and out of the classroom, with everything from pointers on time management to coffee klatches.