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Butler University

Butler University is a private, nationally recognized comprehensive university encompassing seven colleges offering associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degree options.

Butler University is a private university in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Founded in 1855 and named after founder Ovid Butler, the university has over 60 major academic fields of study within six colleges in the arts, business, communication, education, liberal arts and the sciences, and health sciences. It enrolls approximately 5,700 undergraduate and graduate students. Its 295-acre (119 ha) campus is approximately five miles (8.0 km) northwest of downtown Indianapolis.

Former names
North-Western Christian University (1855–1877)
Butler College (1896–1906)
Type Private university
Established 1855
Academic Affiliation Council of Independent Colleges
Endowment $212 million (2020)
President James Danko
Provost Brooke Barnett
Academic staff
372 (2024)
Students 5,763 (2024)
Campus Urban: 295 acres (119 ha)
Colors Blue and white
Nickname Bulldogs
Sporting affiliations
NCAA Division I Big East, Pioneer League (football)
Mascot Butler Blue IV
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Website butler.edu
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History

On January 15, 1850, the Indiana General Assembly adopted Ovid Butler's proposed charter for a new Christian university in Indianapolis. After five years in development, the school opened on November 1, 1855, as North-Western Christian University at 13th Street and College Avenue on Indianapolis's near northside at the eastern edge of the present-day Old Northside Historic District. Attorney and university founder Ovid Butler provided the property. The university was founded by members of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), although it was never controlled by that church. The university's charter called for "a non-sectarian institution free from the taint of slavery, offering instruction in every branch of liberal and professional education". The university was the second in Indiana and the third in the United States to admit both men and women.

The university established the first professorship in English literature and the first Department of English in the state of Indiana. In 1869, Ovid Butler endowed the Demia Butler Chair of English Literature in honor of his daughter, who was the first woman to graduate from the Classical course at the university and had died in 1867. The chair was the first endowed position at an American university designated for a female professor. Catharine Merrill, was the first to occupy the chair in 1869. Merrill was just the second female university professor in the country. Today the Demia Butler Chair of English Literature is occupied by Susan Neville.

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