Employee Handbook

Dear Butler Employees,

With the completion of 3 years at Butler and the beginning of the 2016-2017 academic year, I’m so grateful to work alongside all of you who are so dedicated to our students and their success. Our timeless institutional values of Quality, Integrity, Caring, and Service are embedded in our daily work and set the stage for the college mission and vision which are more vital and vibrant than ever before. Butler’s commitment to excellence and student success begins with all of us. While we’re in the midst of significant transformations in higher education, let’s remain deeply focused on student success, creating strong partnerships to serve of local and regional communities, investing in our employees’ success, and advancing our institutional effectiveness and continuous improvement.

This handbook is designed to provide clear understanding and support of current policies and procedures which in turn allows us to better fulfill our responsibilities. It is a constantly evolving document but one intended to identify the framework for College organizational and administrative functions as well as Board and personnel policies. The handbook should help support a positive working environment, empower you as employees to excel, and validate the importance of your daily work and each of you as individuals.

Because we have the ability to impact our students’ lives each day and often in ways we don’t even realize, I make a personal commitment each day to offer my very best to our students and to each of you. I am dedicated to offering you the flexibility and assistance to create innovative and unique learning environments, to supporting your individual strengths and abilities to fulfill our mission, and to expanding our capacity in strategic ways as we serve our students and communities.

We are all “difference makers” for our students. Whether it’s in class, in our offices, through student organizations, visiting with them on campus, or at college events, we are all part of a team that helps guide them and helps ensure their success. We promise our students that we place learning and their success at the heart of everything we do and that when they choose us, we choose them. When they succeed, so do we. Let’s all help them understand that their “tomorrow” is closer than they think, that their dreams and tomorrows not only start with us, but continue with us. Let’s make sure, as the Butler Family, that we are the ones who help our students “Take Tomorrow!”

Kim Krull, President