Naomi Potter Reporting Student So many college students around the country have the same issue when enrolling for classes. They want to know how they will fill up the extra space in their required credit hours. As a freshman, my scholarship required I have a total of 15 credit hours. All the required credit hours… Continue reading Lessons from yoga
Cat Gonzales Lantern Staff The Butler Community College police force has been making various changes to their office. The revisions began at the end of the fall 2017 semester and should be completed by fall 2018. Current renovations include the interior of the West dorms where the Butler police office is located. Eventually, different security… Continue reading Various changes concern Butler police
Matthew Will Lantern Staff On Tuesday, Feb. 20, Friends University president Amy Bragg Carey and Butler Community College (BCC) President Kimberly Krull signed an agreement linking the Cyber Security programs at both institutions to simplify the transferring and graduation process. “The need for trained cyber security professionals is ever growing, and we look forward to… Continue reading Friends, Butler ink new cyber security partnership
Joseph Washington Student Sports Media Butler Community College announced that six members of the woman’s soccer team have signed to play at a four year level. The 2018 class won two KJCCC conference championships and then pushed through to two NJCAA national tournament appearances. Amazingly, they had a record of 36 wins, 8 losses and… Continue reading Six members of the women’s soccer team leave for a four year program
Dominic Brown Lantern Staff Butler Community College was the host of Phi Beta Lambda’s 67th Annual Kansas State Leadership Conference Saturday, March 10. Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) is a national business leadership organization, which challenges students to apply skills learned in their business courses to compete in various business related competitions. Apart from this, they… Continue reading Six qualify for Phi Beta Lambda Nationals
Dominic Brown Lantern Staff For the last three weeks, the Art Department has been preparing for their March art show. It is a split show held in the E.B. White Gallery of Art in the 700 building on the El Dorado campus, consisting of an interactive art installation by the 3D design students and original… Continue reading Students exercise creative liberty in 3D art show
Marcus Smith Lantern Staff Butler’s English Department voted last year to change their textbooks from a traditional textbook to an open-educational resource (OER). One of the main purposes of this is to help students save money on traditional textbooks. “This book will be different in that it is catered to Butler students and classes,” Associate… Continue reading Open-educational resources are the new wave
Caelin Bragg Lantern Staff Troy Nordman is the associate dean of the humanities and social sciences department and is also one of many professors at Butler who has a Ph.D. Butler’s associate dean of humanities and social sciences began his tenure at Butler in 1991 when he began teaching English and literature at the college… Continue reading Doctorates on campus: Efficiently teaching dev-ed to students
Darrah Walker Lantern Staff Since the late 1970’s, Butler Community College has offered students the ability to train to become a first responder and EMT-A (Emergency Medical Technician- Advanced). The titles of the courses provided through the college have changed multiple times. In 2011, Butler began offering EMT (Emergency Medical Technician) and AEMT (Advanced Emergency… Continue reading EMT program prepares for real life emergencies
Illustrated and written by Tori Lemon Editor-in-Chief “#PressForProgress” is the theme for this year’s International Women’s Day, which is inspired by the statistics from the World Economic Forum’s 2017 Global Gender Gap Report. It states that gender parity, or the state or condition of being equal, especially regarding status or pay, is nearly 200 years away.… Continue reading International Women’s Day 2018, #PressForProgress
