Intellectual
Intellectual resources promote wellness through personal growth in academics, lifelong learning, and engaging new ideas.
- Academic Advising—An educational process between a faculty or staff member and a student to outline steps for achieving academic and career goals.
- Butler Arts Center—This includes Clowes Memorial Hall, Butler’s performing arts center on campus, and the Schrott Center for the Arts. The Schrott Center provides students, faculty, and staff with “a full-sized laboratory” in which to participate and experience the arts.
- Butler Community Arts School—The Butler Community Arts School offers performing arts instruction to anyone ages 5 and up, including adults. It is our mission to provide quality arts instruction at an affordable price while also developing community involvement and civic-mindedness in Butler University students.
- Butler Libraries—The Butler University Libraries make available the materials needed to support study, teaching, and research in all areas of intellectual endeavor pursued at Butler.
- Collegiate Readership Programs
- New York Times—For current college or university students, faculty, staff and administrators, access to NYTimes.com and the NYTimes apps for smartphone and tablet is available at a reduced rate.
- Wall Street Journal—Similar to the New York Times Readership Program, the Wall Street Journal is available at a reduced rate for current college or university students, faculty, staff and administrators.
- Center for Academic Success and Exploration (CASE)—The Center for Academic Success and Exploration is a coordination site for services, programs, and resources that promote academic success for all students of Butler University.
- Tutoring and Study Tables—Individualized Peer Tutoring is available to Butler students, free of charge, through the Center for Academic Success and Exploration (Jordan Hall 144). Study tables are group walk-in tutoring sessions that meet regularly at a specific time and location.
- Center for Citizenship and Community (CCC)—Connects students with active service learning and engagement opportunities within the Indianapolis community.
- Center for Global Education (CGE)—Encourages students to seek intellectual enrichment through global learning opportunities such as study abroad and international student services.
- Center for High Achievement and Scholarly Engagement (CHASE)—CHASE lays out clear steps to your goals, from introducing you to the honors program, research, and scholarship opportunities to coaching you on finding your match in academic grants and graduate programs
- Core Curriculum—At Butler University, the Core curriculum builds the skills students will need to be successful, both during their time in college, and in their careers post-graduation. Our Core curriculum is designed around these key skills: strong written and oral communication, the ability to think critically and creatively, ethical and compassionate consideration of individual difference, and the ability to adapt quickly in this increasingly diversified and globalized world.
- Butler Cultural Requirements (BCR)—“Eight before you graduate.” With such a rich set of cultural activities from artistic performances to public lectures, BCR aims to engage students in valuable learning opportunities, and to encourage students to develop habits of participation in artistic and cultural events that will lead to lifelong engagement with the creative arts.
- Jordan College of the Arts (JCA)—The mission of JCA is to create artist-citizens who shape the community—and the world—around them. And since it’s at the heart of Indianapolis’ thriving art scene, opportunities to engage and experience art in many forms are brought to Butler’s campus.
- Math Tutoring Lab—The Math Tutoring Lab (Jordan Hall 272-C) is open for all students enrolled in prerequisite and core math courses.
- Newfields—For nearly 130 years, Newfields has been an important part of the cultural landscape of Indianapolis, offering an encyclopedic collection of more than 54,000 works spanning 5,000 years. Newfields invites visitors to explore the connections between art, design, and the natural environment. Butler students are eligible for a free Student Membership.
- Speaker’s Lab—The Butler University Speaker’s Lab employs highly trained student tutors to give one-on-one help with the creation and delivery of both individual and group speeches or presentations.
- Student Disability Services (SDS)—Student Disability Services provides accommodations and support services for students with documented disabilities. Services are individualized and determined on a case by case basis.
- Student Modern Language Center—The Student Modern Language Center is located just inside the department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures office suite, the Center houses a vast foreign film and TV collection, as well as fun events. Students can receive free tutoring help or just hang out with friends in the Center.
- Writer’s Studio—The Butler University Writers’ Studio offers free, 45-minute writing consultations at any stage of the writing process – from understanding an assignment to final draft.
- Butler Libraries—The Butler University Libraries make available the materials needed to support study, teaching, and research in all areas of intellectual endeavor pursued at Butler.
- Butler Community Arts School—The Butler Community Arts School offers performing arts instruction to anyone ages 5 and up, including adults. It is our mission to provide quality arts instruction at an affordable price while also developing community involvement and civic-mindedness in Butler University students.
- Center for Global Education (CGE)—Connects faculty with students through study abroad program development resources.
- Collegiate Readership Program
- New York Times—For current college or university students, faculty, staff and administrators, access to NYTimes.com and the NYTimes apps for smartphone and tablet is available at a reduced rate.
- Wall Street Journal—Similar to the New York Times Readership Program, the Wall Street Journal is available at a reduced rate for current college or university students, faculty, staff and administrators.
- Faculty Development—The faculty development program supports faculty in achieving their own potential as teachers, scholars, researchers and creative artists, and supports a faculty member’s development as a thoughtful participant in the Butler community.
- Jordan College of the Arts (JCA)—The mission of JCA is to create artist-citizens who shape the community—and the world—around them. And since it’s at the heart of Indianapolis’ thriving art scene, opportunities to engage and experience art in many forms are brought to Butler’s campus.
- Newfields—For nearly 130 years, Newfields has been an important part of the cultural landscape of Indianapolis, offering an encyclopedic collection of more than 54,000 works spanning 5,000 years. Newfields invites visitors to explore the connections between art, design, and the natural environment.
- Staff Training and Enrichment Program (STEP)—Training and career development opportunities for academic staff.
- Tuition Remission/Exchange Program—Tuition Remission is a benefit available to employees of Butler University (full-time and part-tme) and employees of our External Qualifying Partner Organizations which provides financial assistance for dgreee programs and classes taken at Butler University.