Stories ByMark Apple

Founder’s College at Butler University’s first cohort of 67 students starts classes today, marking a new chapter in the University’s long history of access, innovation, and service to Indiana families.  Founder’s College is Butler’s new two-year college designed to deliver an affordable, high-support pathway to an associate’s degree in high-demand fields. The model combines small […]

Butler University has been recognized as one of 75 colleges and universities nationwide named to the “New Dream Schools” list featured in Dream School (on sale September 9, 2025), the latest book by New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Selingo.  Dream School is the follow-up to Selingo’s acclaimed 2020 bestseller, Who Gets In and Why, […]

Local leaders, students, and community members gathered today to celebrate the addition of three new Pacers Bikeshare stations and 30 new electric bikes on the Butler University campus. This investment expands sustainable transportation options for Butler students, faculty, and staff, as well as Butler’s Midtown neighbors and residents of Marion County.  Through the new partnership, […]

Butler University’s official Move-in Day will be especially busy this year, as 1,246 first-year students arrive on the Midtown Indianapolis campus. It is Butler’s largest incoming class since 2018 and the third largest in the University’s 170-year history.  Enrollment is bolstered by Butler’s new Nursing program, which welcomes 46 students in its inaugural cohort. In […]

A global immersion degree program that will launch at Butler University in 2027 will enable students to study on six continents while earning a bachelor’s degree in just three years. Known as Butler Overseas, the inaugural cohort will include 30-40 first-year students, with the goal of preparing leaders for an increasingly interconnected world and equipping […]

Butler University will launch an Engineering program in fall 2026, expanding its commitment to high-impact, interdisciplinary STEM education. This initiative offers students the opportunity to earn rigorous Bachelor of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Bioengineering rooted in Butler’s hallmark liberal arts traditions.  Butler’s decision to launch an Engineering program directly addresses a […]

As Indianapolis accelerates its bold pursuit to become the global capital of sports and entertainment, Butler University is launching the Butler Institute for Sports & Entertainment (BISE), a transformative initiative that unites academic excellence, industry innovation, and hands-on experiential learning to power the city’s next era of leadership on the world stage. Designed to amplify […]

The Butler University Jazz Ensemble has been named a 2025 DownBeat Student Music Award winner in the Undergraduate College Large Jazz Ensemble category, earning one of the highest honors in jazz education. This recognition from DownBeat magazine—the definitive voice in jazz since 1934—places Butler’s student musicians in elite company, joining the ranks of past winners […]

When first-year Butler University student Rain Williams walked into her high school fashion design class, she didn’t expect the journey ahead would take her nearly 4,000 miles from her Chicago hometown to an international runway in Dublin, Ireland. But that’s exactly what happened when Rain qualified for the global finals of Junk Kouture, a prestigious […]

Butler University today unveiled the space for its Founder’s College, which will welcome its first class of students in August. Butler’s new two-year college—among the first of its kind in the U.S.—provides high-ability students from low-wealth backgrounds a pathway to earn their associate’s degree with no debt or out-of-pocket expenses. Academically qualifying graduates may also […]

Five Butler University alumni landed on Indianapolis Business Journal’s (IBJ) prestigious “Forty Under 40” list in 2025. They are: Ira Maher MBA ’15 (LSB), Brad Vogelsmeier ’13 (LAS), Ryan Waggoner ’10 (CCOM), Jessica Warnke MBA ’20 (LSB), and Brittney Yocum ’10 (LSB).  Each year, IBJ accepts nominations from the community for its “Forty Under 40” […]

When SpaceX 32 launches at 4:15 AM on April 21, 2025, from Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., bound for the International Space Station (ISS), a Butler University senior will be on hand with a personal stake in the mission.  Thomas Chandler, a Psychology major at Butler, has spent the past year working alongside […]