University treasurer gives grim budget update - Sarah Boswell, Ball State Daily News

In the midst of a bleak funding outlook for higher education, Ball State professors are being asked to increase academic standards while producing as many four-year graduates as possible. The goal being to prepare students for a competitive workforce and save the college money by graduating them on time. Ball State should be setting its own standards and methods of evaluating performance, said Provost Terry King during a University Senate meeting on Thursday night. "We need to be ahead of the curve on this," he said. "If we don't fix some things, they will be fixed for us." "We'll have to figure this out. There's a lot of really smart people here at this university, and we'll figure it out."