Benjamin J. Burris

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name = Benjamin Jackson Burris


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university = Ball State University
term_start = 1924
term_end = 1927
birth_date = 1882
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death_date = 1927
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predecessor = Linnaeus Neal Hines
successor = L.A. Pittenger
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Benjamin J. Burris is best known for being a past president of Ball State University (then known as Ball Teachers College) and held many different occupations. Burris was once a county attorney, politician, school administrator as well as the first assistant to the state superintendent of public instruction. [ [http://www.bsu.edu/president/pastpresidents/ "Past Presidents." (Ball State University Website)] , Retrieved March 18, 2008.]

Presidency (1924 - 1927)

During Burris' presidency enrollment, number of faculty members and departments increased as well as social and intramural activities. Burris had a strong vision for the college and wanted to gain the highest accreditation a college could have as well as building a laboratory school for teacher training.

Effect on Ball State University

*Campus Additions During Presidency
**Ball Gymnasium (1925)
**Library and Assembly Hall currently North Quad Building (1926)
**Lucina Hall (1927)

Burris Laboratory School

In the late 1920s, Ball State needed a place for teaching majors to gain teaching experience and thus built the Burris Laboratory School on the south side of campus along University Avenue. The building was built in the Collegiate Gothic Style and was dedicated in Benjamin Burris' name in 1928. The building remains as a public school serving grades Kindergarten through 12th grade as well as housing the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities.

ee also

* List of Ball State University Presidents

References