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