About Butler University
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ABOUT BUTLER UNIVERSITY The goals of the University learning. The University learning outcomes are: Butler University is an independent university • Students will explore various ways composed of a College of Liberal Arts and of knowing in the humanities, social Sciences and five professional colleges. and natural sciences, creative arts, and Butler University is committed to its mission quantitative and analytic reasoning. to provide the highest quality of liberal and • Students will articulate and apply required professional education and to integrate the content knowledge within their area(s) of liberal arts into professional education by study. creating and fostering a stimulating intellectual Students will know how to find, community built upon interactive dialogue and understand, analyze, synthesize, evaluate, inquiry among students, faculty, and staff. and use information, employing Butler University is committed to: technology as appropriate. • Providing the highest quality of teaching • Students will explore a variety of cultures. and to achieving the highest ideals of • Students will recognize the relationship student learning, which include clear and between the natural world and broader effective communication, appreciation societal issues. of beauty and a commitment to lifelong • Students will communicate clearly and learning, community service, and global effectively. awareness. • Students will demonstrate collaborative • Being a national university that serves behavior with others. students from other regions and other • Students will practice ways and means of countries, while recognizing its special physical well-being. responsibility to serve the undergraduate • Students will make informed, rational, and and graduate students of Indiana and the ethical choices. Midwest. Students will appreciate diverse cultures, • Being a residential campus, one on which ethnicities, religions, and sexual both academic and nonacademic aspects of orientations. student life receive important attention. • Students will share their talents with Butler • Recruiting and sustaining practicing and the greater community at large. scholars and professionals dedicated to • Students will be exposed to the value of intellectual self-renewal for the benefit of lifelong learning. their students. Students are afforded ample opportunities to • Cultivating an awareness and achieve these learning outcomes through a understanding of other cultures in its combination of courses—both in the major curriculum and to promoting cultural and in the core curriculum—and through co- and ethnic diversity of its faculty and its curricular experiences. students. • Providing intellectual, cultural, and Butler University today artistic opportunities and leadership in In 1855, Butler University enrolled 20 students. Indianapolis and the surrounding areas. Today, Butler is an independent, co-educational • Providing opportunities and lifelong university with a total undergraduate enrollment support to its alumni in recognition of of approximately 4,200 students. The faculty, their special relationship to the institution. too, has grown from two when the University was founded, to 406 full-time; 83 percent hold the Student learning highest degree in their fields. The original charter In furtherance of the first goal cited above, of the University established in 1855 required the Butler has established learning outcomes for all establishment of departments or colleges for the students. The outcomes are assessed in students’ instructing of students in every branch of liberal coursework and elsewhere throughout their and professional education, and for the promotion undergraduate years, and the results of these of the sciences and arts. assessments are used to improve teaching and ABOUT BUTLER UNIVERSITY 1 True to the vision of its founders, the restoration and renovation to incorporate University emphasizes the warmth and sense of multiple computer labs, an electronic language community characteristic of a small liberal arts laboratory, administrative and faculty offices, institution while offering the educational and student accounts, registration, classrooms, cultural advantages of an urban center. and several departments of the College of The University maintains a favorable student Liberal Arts and Sciences and the College of to faculty ratio of 12 to 1. Because of its size, Education. Butler can offer its students opportunities The Richard M. Fairbanks Center for to work closely with the faculty. Classes are Communication and Technology houses small, and students are encouraged to seek out Computer Sciences and the College of faculty in their offices, studios, or laboratories. Communication, which includes the Eugene S. Undergraduate research and independent study Pulliam School of Journalism, the first school are encouraged. Although Butler professors to be endowed at Butler. are teaching faculty, they understand that Adjoining Jordan at its west end is the Dorothy first-rate teaching must be complemented with and Edward Gallahue Science Hall, which houses scholarly activity that extends the boundaries of the departments of biological sciences, chemistry, knowledge. and physics and astronomy, and provides Butler students represent 45 states and 49 extensive facilities and equipment for faculty and countries, reflecting diverse cultures, interests, student research. aspirations, personalities, and experiences. Linked to Gallahue is the Holcomb Students can join one of more than 150 student Building, home to the College of Business. The organizations, 15 Greek organizations, and 19 structure was originally known as the Holcomb varsity athletic teams. More than 94 percent of Research Institute, established through a Butler students are involved in campus activities; bequest from Indianapolis industrialist J.I. 69 percent participate in community service. Holcomb. In addition to the college offices, the As it has since its founding, Butler continues to building also is home to the Ruth Lilly Science both value tradition and embrace innovation. Library and the Butler Business Accelerator. Completing the U-shaped mall is the The campus Pharmacy and Health Sciences Building. A The City of Indianapolis encircles the 40,000-square-foot, four-story addition to University, while the 295-acre campus rests the building has LEED gold certification in a historic north-side neighborhood. This for its environmentally con-scious materials, serene, beautiful area has nearly 30 buildings, construction, and operations. Its state-of-the- playing fields, a formal botanical garden and art laboratories, classrooms, and technology nature preserve surrounded by well-established support student and faculty collaboration. residential communities and the White River. Lilly Hall, housing the programs of the Located five miles from the heart of the city, Jordan College of the Arts, is located south of the campus offers easy access to downtown. the Pharmacy and Health Sciences Building. The campus is home to 70 percent of the Adjoining Lilly is Clowes Memorial Hall, University’s full-time students. designed as a multipurpose hall for the Its urban location allows Butler to performing arts and other civic functions. Butler offer students a wide range of internship students and faculty, as well as internationally opportunities that are excellent preparation renowned artists, perform in the hall, a 2,200- for careers and graduate schools. In addition, seat facility with a 90-foot stage. full-time faculty in several disciplines, such In April 2013, the 450-seat Howard L. as accounting, journalism, and instrumental Schrott Center for the Arts theatre opened. music, are supplemented with adjunct It provides performance and exhibition space instructors, drawing on the vast resources of the for the theatre, dance, music, and visual arts professionals in the surrounding community. programs. The campus is hailed as one of the most To the south of Clowes stands the Irwin attractive in the Midwest. Arthur Jordan Library, designed by world-famous architect Memorial Hall, built in 1927, was placed on Minoru Yamasaki. It provides basic research tools the National Register of Historic Places in and holds the majority of the University’s over 1984. The building has undergone extensive 350,000 volumes of books, bound periodicals, 2 BUTLER UNIVERSITY and manuscripts. Butler Libraries also offer and bicycling route for students, especially with 100,000 e-books, access to more than 170 the addition of two pedestrian bridges that link online databases, and 30,000 online journals the main campus to athletic fields, the Center and magazines. Irwin is home to Butler’s rare for Urban Ecology’s Campus Farm, and Butler book and archives collections. The library’s Prairie, a nature preserve. digital environment provides access to numerous From the Holcomb Gardens entrance, the electronic databases and Internet through road winds east, past the Holcomb Carillon and dedicated workstations. pond, through a quiet wooded area to the Health Diagonally across a wide grassy mall from and Recreation Complex, Hinkle Fieldhouse, the library is Atherton Union. The University and the Butler Bowl. Like Jordan Hall, Hinkle bookstore is located here, as is Indianapolis’ first is on the National Register of Historic Places. Starbucks Café. A student lounge, food service The 10,000-seat fieldhouse is the home of Butler operations, a 24-hour computer lab, meeting basketball and volleyball teams, the physical rooms, and lounges round