Butler Community College - Community Connection Newsletter August 2022

y t i n u m Com CONNECTION Neighborhood News from Butler Community College

Summer 2022

Dr. Kimberly Krull President

Dr. Thomas Nevill

Vice President of Academics

Bill Rinkenbaugh

Vice President of Student Services

Tom Borrego

Vice President of Advancement

Kent Williams

Vice President of Finance

Bill Young

Vice President of Digital Transformation / CIO

Dr. Jessica Ohman

Associate Vice President of Student Services

Dr. Esam Mohammad

Associate Vice President of Research & Institutional Effectiveness

Shelley Stultz

Associate Vice President of Human Resources

Dr. Terry Sader

Professor and President, Butler Community College Education Association

Kelly Snedden

Director of College Relations & Marketing

901 S. Haverhill Rd. El Dorado, KS 67042 316.321.2222 TOTAL DIRECT ECONOMIC IMPACT OF BUTLER COMMUNITY COLLEGE IN BUTLER COUNTY $

46,041,353

The study was conducted in 2019 by Butler’s Institutional Research staff using the Ryan Shorthand Model of the National Council for Resource Development, and was corroborated and certified by Gene George Consulting, a higher education management consulting firm based in El Dorado, Kansas.

Butler County Citizens Invited to hear ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Author David Grann The Butler Community College Foundation announces Killers of the Flower Moon author David Grann will speak at Butler. The talk will be held Sept. 14, at 7 p.m. in the Hubbard Welcome Center in El Dorado. This event is part of the Harold Smith Cultural Series and is free to the public with a ticket.

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, is a true crime tale. It unravels one of the most sinister crimes and racial injustices in American history. The Osage, after being driven onto a presumably worthless reservation in Oklahoma, discovered oil under their land and became the wealthiest people per capita in the world. Then, in the 1920s, they began to be mysteriously murdered. The film adaptation of the book, under the direction of Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is in final production.

Tickets are required for attendance. For those unable to physically attend, the event will be live streamed on Butler’s BCTV Channel 20.

Established in 1998, he Harold Smith Cultural Series, through the Butler Foundation, creates free, unique cultural opportunities for Butler County residents they may not otherwise experience.

To learn more and reserve tickets visit:

Wednesday, September 14, 7p.m.

Time for questions will follow presentation.

Hubbard Welcome Center | El Dorado Campus

ButlerCCFoundation.org/haroldsmith or scan the QR code with your smartphone!

Mobile Enroll is here ... and there!

Thanks to a generous gift from Evergy, Butler Community College has been provided a new utility trailer.

Wrapped with Butler Pride, you may now see the trailer serving as a live broadcast station at various events or serving as a mobile enrollment center throughout the area. Thank you, Evergy!

Butler’s first mobile enrollment event took place in Augusta on July 26.

The Redler Institute of Culinary Arts opens in Andover This fall begins a new era for culinary and hospitality programs at Butler Community College. The Redler Institute of Culinary Arts, featured this spring and summer in the New York Times and the National Culinary Review, opens its doors due to the generosity of Scott Redler, cofounder and COO of the fast-casual restaurant franchise, Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers, and wife Betsy, and Paul Jackson and Vantage Point Properties. The new facility sits along Kellogg in the new Andover Marketplace area just east of Dillons. The Butler Foundation has raised nearly $4 million in support of this project.

The Redler Institute includes a special venue for public events with view-in kitchens and an outdoor patio. Butler has partnered with Johnson County Community College to also provide American Culinary Federation (ACF) Culinarian and Sous Chef Certifications. The Grizzly Grub food truck will also be hitting the streets soon as part of the Redler Institute of Culinary Arts. To learn more visit ButlerCC.edu/Redler.

Butler Community College Recognized Repeatedly for its Innovation 10% Butler Community College was recognized by The League for Innovation for Community Colleges for becoming an Adobe Creative Campus which focuses on digital literacy and fluency for all students, faculty and staff. Butler is the first and only college in the state of Kansas to be designated an Adobe Creative Campus. This participation provides all students with free access to the Adobe Creative Suite resulting in big savings.

The Wichita Business Journal Innovation Awards also recognized Butler for its Adobe Creative Campus and its new Butler Laptop Program that supplies laptops to students for $150. The device becomes the student’s – permanently – because everyone deserves access to higher education and technology.

16-week Fire Academy launches for Fall 2022 Zachary Lindsey knows firsthand what Butler Community College’s Fire Science program teaches. He started his Fire Science education at Butler and spent 17 years in the fire service in North Carolina.

Lindsey, originally from Eureka and a Bluestem High School graduate, returned to Kansas in early 2020 and is now head of Butler’s Fire Science program. Now he’s innovating to give Butler Fire students greater leverage in the marketplace.

His most recent innovation is the creation of a Fire Academy – designed to train students to be firefighters in 16 weeks. It’s a heavy lift but needed.

By the end of one semester, successful students earn four certifications and complete one-third of the two-year degree. Courses include Firefighter 1, Firefighter 2, Hazardous Materials, and Emergency Medical Technician Basic (EMT-B).

Instead of three days a week, Academy students attend four days a week, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the training facility attached to El Dorado Fire Station 2. In the fall of 2021, Lindsey partnered with the City of El Dorado to add a Live Fire Training Prop made of shipping containers to emulate a two-story house fire or a basement rescue.

Students experience fiery, smoky situations beginning with elementary level and moving to more difficult challenges. For more information about Butler’s 16-week Fire Academy, call Angie Martin, 316-323-6150 or email amartin50@butlercc.edu.

Kansas Community Colleges make tax dollars go farther for Kansas Promise Scholarship helping eliminate debt for Kansas families & students As published by The Wichita Beacon, June 22, 2022

Demanded by Industry, Delivered by Butler

Amazon selected Butler as the region’s only two-year college provider for the Amazon Career Choice Program which allows full- and part-time employees to advance their careers at Amazon or elsewhere.

901 S. Haverhill Road El Dorado, KS 67042

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Don’t miss the Grizzly GOLD Parade in El Dorado! Saturday, August 27 at 10 am!

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Forrest Rhodes - Chair

District 3, Position 3 Email: forrest.rhodes@butlercc.edu

Mary Martha Good - Vice Chair At Large Email: mgood2@butlercc.edu

Linda Jolly Secretary / Treasurer

District 1, Position 4 Email: linda.jolly@butlercc.edu

Kim Braungardt

District 2, Position 5 Email: kim.braungardt@butlercc.edu

Dave Sherrer

District 3, Position 6 Email: david.sherrer@butlercc.edu

Shelby Smith

District 2, Position 2 Email: shelby.smith@butlercc.edu

Julie Winslow

District 1, Position 1 Email: julie.winslow@butlercc.edu

30-YEAR ALL-TIME LOW ON MILL LEVY

In July, the Butler Community College Board of Trustees voted 4-3 to allow for the possibility of exceeding the revenue neutral rate in the 2023 budget.

The much-appreciated foresight of the Board created an opportunity for the college administration to further examine the year-end financials and develop an aggressive but fiscally beneficial budget recommendation. Having additional time to fully evaluate budget savings, fund reserve amounts, and funds from the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF), the Butler Community College administration recommended to the Board of Trustees that the college should decline the tax revenue increase generated by higherthan-normal property valuation growth. The administrative recommendation will reduce the mill levy to its lowest point in nearly 30 years.

Dr. Kimberly Krull, President of Butler Community College says, “The college administration evaluates the goals of the college each year to determine the needs of our students. Our faculty and staff have again done a great a job of managing their budgets. This past fiscal year, we continued exceptional budget management in addition to receiving HEERF funds from COVID-19 to address our deferred maintenance. The vote of our Board to allow more time to examine the numbers turned out to be the difference maker in the process, giving the College the opportunity to pass these savings on to the hardworking taxpayers of Butler County.”