College of Education

  • Students and faculty remember Brandon Cole

    Students and faculty remember Brandon Cole

    A Butler University professor who taught with passion and love until the very end. Cole impacted students through his positive energy and dedication to the Butler community.

  • College of Education to move to CTS at start of 2018-2019 academic year

    College of Education to move to CTS at start of 2018-2019 academic year

    Though the deal is not yet on paper, President Danko and CTS President Matthew Boulton discuss a partnership between the two schools. Butler would buy a large portion of CTS campus, and Butler’s College of Education would relocate.

  • COE introduces minors to comply with new laws

    Butler University’s College of Education has added three new minors that are available to students now. The minors are mild intervention, English as a new language and reading teacher. An early childhood minor is still in the works. It is waiting  for state approval after being sent through Butler’s approval process. The reading teacher minor…

  • Group targets BU students for information

    A lobbying group has been targeting Butler University’s College of Education students to obtain  the syllabi of courses. The National Council on Teacher Quality has been reaching out to students in the college to offer them money in exchange for syllabi or other course information. In some cases, representatives from the organization have shown up…

  • Reform affects student teachers

    It has become more difficult to place Butler’s approximately 100 student teachers in the midst of education reform and the state’s new teacher evaluation standards, said Sue Stahl, director of student personnel services in the College of Education. The new evaluation guidelines will become effective next school year. Those who receive low ratings can be…

  • OPINION | Education crisis affects more than teachers

    Butler University administrators spend a lot of time talking about the Pharmacy program and the College of Business—and for good reason. But the College of Education deserves some attention as well. Maybe it’s just me—I’ve lived with and am friends with several education majors—but it seems that Butler’s COE does a lot for its students…

  • Partnership provides learning experience

    Relationships key to partnership’s ability to succeed, administrators said. Building deeper relationships is what educators at both Shortridge Magnet High School and Butler University’s College of Education say is the next step in their part of the partnership. COE partners with Shortridge for professional development, provides student teachers and holds certain classes at Shortridge. Shelly…

  • Butler partnership to continue despite suspension

    Butler University’s College of Education will keep its partnership with Shortridge Magnet High School for Law and Public Policy despite the school’s principal being suspended. Currently, Butler is engaged in a partnership with the school to allow juniors and seniors to enroll in one three-credit course each semester at the university through the Early College…

  • COPHS illustrates its world

    Childhood consists of many blissful elements: Candyland, the zoo and Sesame Street to name a few.  The subject of pharmacy typically gets left off the list.  But one College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences professor at Butler University wants to help kids understand what it means to be a pharmacist by writing a children’s book.…