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The Richard W. Guyer Professorship in Education was established in 1997 by D. Michael Hockett, a 1964 graduate of Butler University and an Indianapolis businessman who was deeply influenced by Guyer’s teaching and guidance.

The scholarship will be awarded annually beginning next fall to a student enrolled in the College of Education.

When the federal Department of Education went looking for ideas on how to prepare teachers in early November, one of the places it sought out was Butler University’s College of Education.

“While awards are wonderful to receive, the greatest rewards are witnessing the success of my students and alumni and the relationships that I have developed both inside and outside of the classroom.”

“The shortage of ENL teachers is so bad in Indiana that a lot of kids are not being served by licensed teachers. This is deeply needed in our state.”

TopCounselingSchools.org has rated Butler’s M.S. in School Counseling degree as one of the best in Indiana.

Butler University is represented twice in the Indiana State Museum’s new exhibition Indiana in 200 Objects, a celebration of the state’s 200th birthday, which will be on view through January 29, 2017.

Indianapolis Public Schools has named Micah Nelson MS ’11 its 2017 Teacher of the Year.

Ena Shelley, Dean of Butler University’s College of Education (COE) since 2005 and a professor in the College since 1982, has been selected to receive the Edward C. Pomeroy Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teacher Education from the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE).

At first, the concept seems difficult. How do you help third-graders understand what service means? But for Early and Middle Childhood Education Professor Arthur Hochman and his early elementary education class, the challenge is often the most important part of the lesson plan. For a little over five weeks this semester, Butler students were paired […]

Butler University has been awarded a $339,000 grant from the Freeman Foundation to support undergraduate student internships in East and Southeast Asia in 2016 and 2017. The money will be used to send 20 students to Shanghai in 2016 and 20 to Shanghai, 10 to Beijing, and 10 to Singapore during summer 2017. The grant […]

Professor of Special Education Suneeta Kercood has been awarded nearly $25,000 by the Dental Trade Alliance Foundation to develop a video-based training program to teach families of special-needs children about oral healthcare and prepare them for visits to the dentist. “There is a huge disparity in oral health care of children with intellectual/developmental disabilities,” Kercood […]