Shared Futures

Butler University

Bill Berry
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Butler University
bberry@butler.edu

Bill Berry is Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Butler University. Dr. Berry convened the task force that developed Butler’s new core curriculum and worked closely with the committee in encouraging the inclusion of global issues in the institution’s general education program.

As a former director of international programs at another institution, Dr. Berry has a longstanding and personal commitment to the goals of the Shared Futures project.

Kenneth C. Creech
Interim Core Director Chair, Media Arts
kcreech@butler.edu

Kenneth Creech is Interim Director of the New Core Curriculum at Butler University. He is also Fairbanks Professor of Communication and Chair of the Department of Media Arts. In recognition of the global impact of the media, Dr. Creech visited universities in the United States, England, Germany, and Australia in order to gather curricular information crucial to the development of the new Media Arts curriculum. The product of those visits found its way into the new departmental curriculum.

Dr. Creech serves on the Jordan College of Fine Arts curricular committee, and chaired the University Curriculum Committee in 2004-05. He also was a member of the Core Curriculum Task Force. This group designed the new core curriculum that will go into effect at Butler in 2008.  As Interim Director of the New Core Curriculum, Dr. Creech is charged with initial implementation of the new core.