Expanding What It Means to Educate
A person’s growth is shaped by many people along the way. A educator who sparks curiosity. A counselor who helps navigate a difficult moment. A coach who builds confidence and resilience. A mentor who helps someone discover a sense of purpose. A student affairs professional who creates a sense of belonging during a time of transition. Different roles.…
Butler University Announces New Master’s Entry-to-Practice Nursing Program
Designed for individuals with non-nursing bachelor’s degrees, the MSN-ETP program offers an accelerated, graduate-level pathway into nursing while helping address growing healthcare workforce needs. As healthcare organizations across Indiana and the nation face growing nursing shortages, Butler University is expanding its healthcare education offerings with a new graduate nursing pathway designed to help meet workforce…
From Performer to Playwright, Sarah Ault ’21 Creates the Work She Wants to See
By the time the lights came up on the first performance of The Lysistrata Project, Sarah Ault ’21 (she/they) was watching something that had lived in her head for years finally come to life. The actors on stage were delivering lines she had written. The audience was reacting to characters she had created. And the…
Inaugural Boston Pharmacy Trek Provides Experiential Career Preparation for Butler Students
This spring, 16 Butler University Pharmacy students participated in the first-ever Boston Pharmacy Trek, a donor-funded experiential learning trip made possible by Christina and Thomas Grusecki. Over three days during spring break, students visited five major pharmaceutical and biotech companies and interacted with Butler alumni living in the area. The Boston Pharmacy Trek joins a…
Meet an Incoming Founder’s College Student: Diana Espinoza Nunez
Meet Diana, an incoming Founder’s College student.
Duane and Linnéa Leatherman ʼ75 Endowed Professorship to Become First Endowed Faculty Position in JCA
Butler University recently received a $2 million estate commitment from Duane and Linnéa Leatherman ʼ75 to fund an endowed faculty position in the Jordan College of the Arts (JCA). The Duane and Linnéa Leatherman ʼ75 Endowed Professorship is the first documented endowed faculty position in the history of the Jordan College of the Arts. The…
Meet the Class of 2030: Joshua Sprung
Meet Josh, an incoming first-year student from San Diego, California.
The Next Chapter Begins for Butler’s Class of 2026
More than 1,500 graduates turned their tassels at Hinkle Fieldhouse on Friday, May 8, as Butler University celebrated the Class of 2026 during its annual Commencement ceremony. Surrounded by proud families, faculty mentors, and friends, graduates marked the end of one chapter and the beginning of another. Throughout the evening, speakers reflected on growth, uncertainty,…
Built from the Ground Up: Butler DECA Becomes the Largest Collegiate Chapter in the World
When Eric Bedrosian ’26 arrived at the Lacy School of Business as a first-year student in the fall of 2022, he brought with him more than memories of high school DECA competitions. He brought an idea, and a challenge. “I told Dean Craig Caldwell, half-jokingly, that if I came to Butler University, I wanted to start a DECA chapter,” Bedrosian,…
Butler Faculty Research Reaches the Global Game
A Butler professor’s work is now helping coaches around the world rethink how athletes learn—at every level of the game. Early in his coaching career, Dr. Tom Parry was doing what many coaches are taught to do—running structured drills, breaking skills into parts, focusing on repetition. It was organized. It was efficient. But it wasn’t…
Justine Starke Named 2026 Recipient of John Henry Weidner Award for Altruism at Butler University
Justine Starke, a first-year Strategic Communications major with a minor in English Literature, is the recipient of the 2026 John Henry Weidner Endowed Scholarship for Altruism, presented by the Department of Sociology & Criminology’s Student Sociology & Criminology Association (SSCA), in recognition of her exceptional commitment to service, leadership, and community engagement. Starke has demonstrated…