Health Professions and Related Programs at Ball State University: Overview

Visited the university during the opening. Good overall review about the university.

One of the highest suicide rates in the country. I wonder why...I was ridiculed for my southern accent by professors and students. There's more racism here than anything I experienced in the South. Support for LGBT is non existent (probably a factor in the shameful suicide rate on campus)

Though expensive, this is a wonderful school with a lot of opportunities if you are interested in the sciences and are ambitious. It was wonderful to be close to so many cultural areas and within walking distance to top-notch museums, gardens, and the Cleveland orchestra. Another often ignored fact is the university's proximity to both CIM and CIA, (Cleveland Institutes for Music and Art, respectively) which add some interesting and eclectic student events if you look for them.

The only reason I didn't give this institution a lower rating is because the option isn't available. Me and my sixty-one year old mother had the campus security or police called on us twice while we were doing legal research at Case Western Law Library. We were referred to this institution by a counselor from Mae Dugan Center. Me and my mom had visited the facility twice before my mother asked for assistance and was referred to speak with someone in the legal offices downstairs. She spoke with someone but never got a response after that meeting. And when we visited the law library again to do more research on our own we were approached by a security officer, showing a blurry cell phone picture of two women that they claimed to have defaced some property at the library. The security officer realized she had made a mistake, apologized and we thought the matter was settled until we came back about a week or so later and six or seven police officers show up with the same story. Again when me and my mother were approached by the officers we told them that the two women in the photo was neither of us. The officer that questioned us was rude when he asked for our identification despite seeing that the two women in the photo looked nothing like me or my mother. But I guess they assumed because the women in the photo were black and female meant we obviously were the same people. This many police officers showing up for something so frivolous was both offensive and a waste of time. The police officers left without incident and my mother and I left soon after. We haven't been back since. And neither of us will ever step foot on Case Western campuses again nor will I refer anyone to this institution. The officers did not apologize for the errror nor did the staff member who called them apologize. I guess doing legal research in a law library while black is a crime.

Went to the Dental clinic this morning at 9:00 for a 9:45 appointment. Only I other person there. At least a dozen others arrived after me and were greeted and taken back for service. I waited until 10:30 and left. After 3 signatures to check in no one ever came out for me. Not a good way to train your students after several of them had seen me sitting there looking into the clinic area. 👎