People in the Butler University and Butler-Tarkington communities who have seen the school’s parking garage plans are providing mostly positive feedback. A plan for a mixed-use parking garage was endorsed by Butler’s Board of Trustees at the end of September. Approximately 1,000 parking spots, an undetermined number of living spaces and, potentially, some retail businesses…
Underpaid faculty and staff deserve equity raises
On Saturday, Butler University’s Board of Trustees voted to approve President Jim Danko’s recommendation not to proceed with a 1 percent equity raise for approved faculty and staff. The university uses equity raises to close gaps between the salaries of comparable faculty and staff. While Butler’s effort to include equity raises in the budget…
Butler bids farewell to Fong family
He’s here for business. He’s armed with giant oval grampa reading glasses, his trusty sidekick and a tall, black Pike Place Starbucks coffee. He’s here to talk politics, policies and infrastructure. Well, he would be, if students weren’t so awkwardly waiting for the right time to approach the man himself. For a man with a…