Dr. Bobby Fong
"In 1855, when race was considered
an insuperable marker of superiority and inferiority, when women
were considered the weaker sex, when college was the province of a
privileged white male elite, Butler University was founded on an
audacious vision to provide interracial coeducation to aspiring
students. In our institutional future, the divides we seek to
bridge include those of ethnicity, ideology, and economic
disparity, as well as race and gender, but the proffered solution
is the same: that education should be the global commons where all
people can meet with respect and toleration in order to forward
individual aspirations and to fashion a common destiny."
- President, Dr. Bobby Fong