Despite a drop in external grants coming into Ball State, James Pyle, assistant vice president for research, said he is confident the university can find the money to continue the iCommunication programs.
However, Ball State is going to have to step it up a notch if it wants to find the additional money, Marilyn Weaver, chairwoman of the Department of Journalism, said.
"We aren't as accustom to this as some institutions," she said. "We need to be more aggressive in many ways."
Finding external money to support iCommunication should get easier as the program matures, Pyle said.
"A lot of the iComm projects have the potential to get funding as they go further," he said.
Weaver said she has been working indirectly with the Office of Academic Research and Sponsored Programs to find grants. Weaver said the college has had some success in finding additional money.
"This isn't something that just happens overnight, and trust me, none of them are $20 million," she said.
Ball State received the $20 million iCommunication grant from the Lilly Endowment in 2001. The four-year grant was split into three different programs: the Center for Media Design, the Media Studies Program and the Global Media Network. Only two of the three programs will definitely continue once the grant ends in Summer 2005.
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