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…
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…
Faculty and Staff… The Gender Demographics of the Bethel Faculty: 1986-2024 25 Sep 20249 Dec 2024 In part one of this brief series, we saw that the share of women on the Bethel College faculty actually declined through the Sixties before starting to grow slowly during…
Faculty and Staff… The Gender Demographics of the Bethel Faculty: 1958-1985 24 Sep 20249 Dec 2024 "In the concept of the Christian body," wrote Carl Lundquist during his last decade as Bethel president, "every member is important and essential to the others. There are no 2nd.…
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