Butler University Mission Statement
Mission
Butler's mission is to provide the highest quality of liberal
and professional education and to integrate the liberal arts with
professional education, by creating and fostering a stimulating
intellectual community built upon interactive dialogue and inquiry
among students, faculty and staff.
Commitments
- Providing the highest quality of teaching and to achieving the
highest ideals of student learning, which include clear and
effective communication, appreciation of beauty, and a commitment
to lifelong learning, community service, and global awareness.
- Being a national university which serves students from other
regions and other countries, while recognizing its special
responsibility to serve the undergraduate and graduate students of
Indiana and the Midwest.
- Being a residential campus, one on which both academic and
non-academic aspects of student life receive important
attention.
- Recruiting and sustaining practicing scholars and professionals
dedicated to intellectual self-renewal for the benefit of their
students.
- Cultivating an awareness and understanding of other cultures in
its curriculum, and to promoting cultural and ethnic diversity of
its faculty and its students.
- Providing intellectual, cultural, and artistic opportunities
and leadership to Indianapolis and the surrounding areas.
- Providing opportunities and lifelong support to its alumni in
recognition of their special relationship to the institution.