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 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…
Sources… Student Newspapers as Historical Evidence 25 Oct 20249 Dec 2024 Perhaps the hardest thing to do as a Bethel historian is to recover the experience of the university's largest constituency: its students. That's partly because of the sheer size and…
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.…
The Women of Bethel 