Announcements Two Events Coming Up in Early 2025 16 Dec 2024 I'll plan to share one more item from the archives before the end of the week. But since we'll otherwise be winding things down for Christmas break, I thought I'd…
Faculty and Staff… From the Archives… an Op-ed 12 Dec 2024 Thus far, I've tended to use this blog to write the first drafts of stories that will likely feature, in some way, in our final project narrative. But once in…
Curriculum… Gender in the College Curriculum 9 Dec 202428 Mar 2025 When Bethel College first moved to its new campus by Lake Valentine, hardly anything in its academic catalog suggested that gender was an important subject in the Bethel curriculum. Apart…
Faculty and Staff… A Brief History of the Women’s Concerns Committee 3 Dec 20249 Dec 2024 Committee work tends to rank fairly low on the list of priorities for college professors, but starting in 1986, several Bethel faculty volunteered additional service time in order to identify…
Faculty and Staff… The Women’s History Month Devotionals 26 Nov 202429 Jan 2025 The beginning of March "means more than approaching midterms and spring break," The Clarion informed Bethel students that month in 1987; "it also means National Women's History Month." Both "a…
Background Women at the History Center 22 Nov 20249 Dec 2024 Since I've spent a lot of time in the archives this month, I thought I'd end the week by sharing some glimpses of how women show up at what's called…
Faculty and Staff… The Role of Men in Women’s History 20 Nov 20249 Dec 2024 Just before Christmas 1986 a columnist in Bethel's student newspaper sought to introduce readers to feminism by talking to some feminists on the Bethel faculty. English professor Jeannine Bohlmeyer told…
Faculty and Staff… The Origins of the Bethel Nursing Program 13 Nov 20249 Dec 2024 As the 1970s began, Elaine Peterson left the western Wisconsin farm where she'd grown up and came to St. Paul, Minnesota to study for her career. She didn't head for…
Uncategorized Bethel Views of Women in Presidential Politics 8 Nov 2024 Just a short post to end a week in which Donald Trump became the first former U.S. president since Grover Cleveland to win reelection to a second, non-consecutive term. In…
Rough Drafts… Anti-Feminism at Bethel in the 1970s 4 Nov 20249 Dec 2024 While the Seventies are often remembered as an era when even theologically conservative Christians began to rethink assumptions about women's roles in family, church, and society, it was also an…
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