Papa John is a graduate of Ball State, and he’s just awarded a $3.25 million dollar grant to fund the university’s new John H. Schnatter Institute for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise. He along with the Charles Koch Foundation are making the grant possible to promote the free enterprise system. Schnatter told the Sun Journal that free enterprise eliminates poverty, enhances prosperity and enables the pursuit of happiness. The grant will help Ball State become a national model for developing research and talent to solve modern problems.