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BUTLER 2020: A Roadmap for Strategy and Action

Butler University Mission

Our 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.

Butler 2020 Vision

Butler University will be an innovative leader in the creation and delivery of transformative, student-centered learning experiences that prepare graduates to make a meaningful impact in the world.

Aerial View of Campus in the Fall

strategic platforms

Commit

Distinguish Butler among peer and aspirant universities by creating innovative academic programs while strengthening our commitment to community engagement, experiential learning, and international education.

Integrate

Exemplify excellence in the liberal arts, professional education, and their effective integration.

Engage

Attract, develop, and retain faculty who combine a high-quality, engaged teaching approach with scholarly inquiry and multidisciplinary collaboration.

Prepare

Enrich the Butler community by promoting diversity and preparing graduates to succeed in a multicultural workforce and global society.

Support

Inspire alumni, friends, and the community to support the University, leading to enhanced resources and endowment.

Evolve

Advance our educational mission through superior campus amenities, dynamic co-curricular offerings, and exceptional administrative support.

2020 progress

The Butler 2020 Vision and supporting strategic platforms have moved from planning to action since its inception in 2014, with particular momentum over the past year. Nine specific, measurable objectives designed to give rise to our success were developed and assigned to senior executive champions, who, in turn, assembled working teams to refine these objectives and build corresponding action plans.

Most recently, our champions compiled and incorporated the University community’s feedback into a set of defined initiatives.  These initiatives serve as a roadmap to our broader ambition to not only keep pace as a leader among regional universities but to emerge as a national university with best-in-class academics, a robust career pipeline, a thriving community, and state-of-the-art campus amenities to better serve students.

A sampling of initiatives currently underway include:

  • Development of new, high-demand undergraduate and graduate programs
  • Expansion of key student engagement practices, including study abroad, internships, experiential education, research, scholarship, and creative activities
  • Enhancement of student retention and career services
  • Active construction on the new Lacy School of Business building and planning for the expansion and renovation of Butler’s sciences facilities
  • Creation of state-of-the art student housing options including Fairview House, now home to over 600 students, and the construction on a second new facility expected to open by fall 2018
  • Expansion of marketing and recruitment efforts to key regional and national markets, including the BIG EAST

Our refreshed Butler 2020 webpage is meant to provide real-time updates as progress unfolds, and collect real-time feedback, comments, and questions.

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Butler 2020 Objectives

2020 panel information

Butler 2020 Growth Panel

Jaci Thiede, Lori Greene, and Matt Mindrum

Butler 2020 Mission Panel

Kate Morris & Tom Paradis

Butler 2020 Foundation Panel

Bruce Arick, James Gallaher, & Rich Michal

butler 2020 resources

Current Construction

Changes are taking shape as campus evolves for 2020 and beyond.

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The Road to Butler 2020

Find out what we've accomplished so far, and where we currently are on the journey.

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