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Butler Community College is pleased to announce the names of the four finalists for its ongoing presidential search. In alphabetical order, the finalists are Dr. Samuel “Todd” Brand, Dr. Tamara Daniel, Dr. Marc Malone and Dr. Greg Nichols. Starting March 31, each finalist will be welcomed to campus for a day of tours, official interviews and meetings, including a specific forum for community and business partners from 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. each day. PRESIDENTIAL FINALISTS Dr. Samuel “Todd” Brand has spent twenty-five years working in the field of higher education. Originally from Mendenhall

The Butler Community College Board of Trustees and the Kansas Board of Regents recently approved an update to the Redler Institute of Culinary Arts curriculum, which includes a new group of certificate pathways aimed at refining the educational process for tomorrow’s top chefs. In addition to the standard associate degree in culinary arts, the Redler Institute will now offer one, two and four semester certifications which give students the option to take a variety of courses related to event management, food truck entrepreneurship and pastry arts. “The new curriculum is much more streamlined

Butler Community College hosted the annual 2025 Butler County Spelling Bee on Friday, February 7 in the R.D. Hubbard Welcome Center on the El Dorado campus. Samuel Riley of Andover Middle School was named champion. A total of 26 contestants from Butler County elementary and middle schools competed for eight total rounds. Samuel was the only student to advance to the Championship Round. Samuel correctly spelled the word “anxiety” to be named the winner. He will now move on to the state spelling bee on Saturday, March 22, at Mabee Arena at Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina. Blake Dunbar from

Butler Community College has released the President’s and Dean’s Honor Roll lists for the Fall 2024 semester, with over 1300 students being recognized for their academic achievements. To be named to the President’s Honor Roll, students must maintain a GPA of 4.0, while students on the Dean’s list must earn a GPA of 3.50 - 3.99. For each list, students are organized by in-state or out-of-state residency, then alphabetically by hometown and last name. Additionally, Wichita students are broken out by zip code. PRESIDENT’S HONOR ROLL IN STATE ANDALE Eva Preister ANDOVER Pallas Adams, Jason Adler

To view the photo album, click here https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBVm4C (Rodney Dimick). Butler Community College’s nursing department celebrated 67 new graduates at their bi-annual Nurses Pinning Ceremony on Friday, December 13, at the El Dorado Performing Arts Center. Dr. Kim Krull, president of Butler Community College, encouraged graduates to recognize their family and friends for their support before thanking the class. “It takes special people to do the work you do. Thank you for making [the] commitment to this tremendous profession. You stand on the verge of being leaders and innovators, and

The Butler Community College Board of Trustees recently named Dr. Jackie Vietti as Interim President. Vietti, who previously served as President of Butler from 1995-2012, will take over for the retiring Dr. Kimberly Krull effective Monday, January 6, 2025. At an event celebrating Dr. Krull’s retirement on Monday, December 9, the current and former Butler leaders discussed their unexpected role reversal. “I was thrilled to be presented with the unforeseen opportunity to come home again,” said Dr. Vietti, “and provide tangible proof [of] my steadfast mantra that one never leaves Butler.” Dr

When Quang “Howie” Cao and his family left southern Vietnam for the United States in 2018, he was already a high school graduate. And while he knew he wanted to go to college, he also knew it would take time for that dream to become a reality in his new home. “The first thing my uncle told me was that education here is very important and it is the door that can lead me to success. [But] I knew I needed to learn English first,” Howie said. Once he and his family were settled in Wichita, Howie started looking for an English as a Second Language (ESL) class to take, eventually finding one at the

The National Junior College Athletics Association (NJCAA) has announced that, for the second season in a row, Butler Community College students will serve as the primary production team for an ESPN broadcast. The Butler Grizzlies football team will play Snow College of Ephraim, Utah, on Saturday, September 28, at 1:30 p.m at BG Veterans Memorial Stadium, and Butler Creative TV (BCTV) will produce the game in partnership with the NJCAA and California's Tourbeau Sports. Butler students will be involved in directing, running replays, creating graphics and operating nine cameras for the broadcast

Butler Community College’s new shooting sports team has begun its first season with competitions starting mid-September. Coach Darren Jackson is training four experienced shooters who will compete in two nationally-recognized leagues. The team is participating in two leagues with different competition schedules, the USA Clay Target League and the Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) to give students more opportunities to compete. Shooters will compete using a shotgun individually and as a team against other two-year and four-year institutions in three different disciplines; trap, skeet and

Butler Community College is pleased to announce Dr. Barry Robinson has been named Vice President of Academics for the College. His first day was Monday, August 12. Dr. Robinson comes to Butler after serving as Vice President of Instruction at Whatcom Community College in Bellingham, Washington. Prior to that, he was Executive Dean at Seattle Central College in Seattle, Washington, and Academic Dean at Green River College in Auburn, Washington. Originally from Louisville, Kentucky, Dr. Robinson earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Brescia College (now Brescia University). He