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EspañolBETHEL UNIVERSITY (MINNESOTA)
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'Bethel University' is a Christian higher education institution with approximately 6,000 students from 36 countries enrolled in undergraduate, graduate, seminary, and adult education programs. The main campus is located in Arden Hills, Minnesota, and the school has satellite seminary locations on both coasts.
The university has a performing arts program, including Benson Great Hall, a concert halls, and The Bethel Choir, the university's 75-voice concert choir which has performed throughout Europe and Scandinavia.
Fully accredited by the Higher Learning Commission--North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, the university is also a member of the Christian College Consortium.
Bethel University is affiliated with and supported by the congregations of the Baptist General Conference.
Bethel University began in Chicago, Illinois, in 1871 as a seminary for Baptist immigrants from Sweden. The seminary merged with Bethel Academy in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1914. In 1931 the Academy became Bethel Junior College. The addition of a four-year liberal arts college program created Bethel College and Seminary in 1947. Beginning in 2004, the institution amended its name to Bethel University, better reflecting the broad scope of its academic programs.
Bethel University is divided into five different schools, each focusing on a different area:
★ College of Arts & Sciences
The College of Arts & Sciences offers 66 majors (78 including emphases within majors) and 41 minors (42 including emphases within minors).
★ College of Adult & Professional Studies
★ Graduate School
★ School for Executive Leadership
★ Bethel Seminary
There are five main education buildings located on Bethel University's main campus in Arden Hills, MN. They run Southwest/Northeast and are centrally located within the campus. They are all connected through weather-protected skyways and tunnels.
Starting from the Southwest and running to the Northeast the buildings are as follows (with abbreviations in parentheses): Benson Great Hall and Lundquist Community Life Center (CLC), Academic Center (AC), Clauson Fine Arts Center (CC), Hagstrom Student Services Center (HC), and Robertson Physical Education Center (RC).
Map of Campus
There are four freshman residence halls located on-campus. Three of them are on a hill known as Freshman Hill; they are Bodien Hall, Getsch Hall, and Edgren Hall. The other freshman dorm is Nelson Hall, and it is located a short distance away from Freshman Hill. Nelson Hall is the oldest building on Bethel University's current campus in Arden Hills.
There are three residence halls that house mainly sophomores located on-campus: Arden Village West, Arden Village East, and Lissner Hall. Lissner Hall is the newest building on campus; it was completed in the Summer of 2005.
Two residence complexes, North Village and Fountain Terrace, house mostly juniors. Fountain Terrace is a renovated apartment complex located about two miles from the main campus. A shuttle service runs regularly between Fountain Terrace and the campus. North Village (a housing compound comprising five small residence halls) is located on the campus within walking distance of the academic buildings, but a shuttle also services these residences due to the occasionally extreme Minnesota climate.
Heritage Hall is the primary senior residence on campus, but also houses some juniors.
Many upperclassmen live off-campus.
Bethel University offers a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs. It regularly achieves the top ranks in the US News and World Reports. Undergraduates leave Bethel for positions in industry, social service, community organizations, and many other fields. Graduates have gone to excel top graduate schools in the United States, including Yale, Princeton, University of Chicago, and many others.
In the last ten years there has been a strong emphasis on study abroad, and Bethel offers programs on every continent and highly encourages its students to study for a semester or, at least, a January term in some other part of the world.
All full-time students and professors are expected to abide by a Covenant for Life Together. This lifestyle agreement focuses on living a Christian life of personal morality, which includes a respect for all persons and ethnic traditions, refraining from extra-marital sex, gambling, and the use of alcohol, illegal drugs, and tobacco in any form. The goal of the Covenant is to build a community of faith and learning centered around common values.
In the last four years Bethel University has embraced a call to Biblical Reconciliation. The ministry of reconciliation is one that brings people together across social divisions that exist. In the case of Bethel this specifically means the idea of racial reconciliation. The push towards reconciliation arose out of outwardly racist events that happened in the 2002-2003 school year. Since that time Bethel University has made great strides towards reconciliation. Some of these things include creating a department of reconciliation, offering major and minors in the study of reconciliation, going through the Minnesota Collaborative Anti-Racism Initiative(MCARI), has created the Bethel Anti racism and Reconciliation Commission (BAARC), and has added as their seventh core value the following statement: "We are reconcilers—honoring the worth and dignity of people from all races and purposely seeking to create a community that reflects the diversity of the Body of Christ."
While there has been much work for racial reconciliation at Bethel, there is still much more to be done. "The students at Bethel are for the most part white, middle class and from states in the upper mid-west. So life at Bethel presents a false picture of the world and the membership of the kingdom of God," says Professor of Philosophy Stanley D. Anderson. Bethel students, faculty, and staff still remain, in the broad sense, unaffected by the concerns for racial reconciliation evident at Bethel. The majority of the white people at Bethel are unaware of issues around diversity and racial reconciliation, due to systematic white privilege. This has caused many people of color at Bethel to be tokenized, and left to fight battles around these issues by themselves. Bethel continues to fight for racial reconciliation though, regardless of the lack of commitment. Bethel has hired numerous staff and faculty to help to truly bring racial reconciliation in as one of it's core values.
Bethel University has two student publications, ''The Clarion'' and the ''Coeval.'' ''The Clarion'' is a weekly newspaper run by paid students. The ''Coeval'' is Bethel's bi-annual fine arts journal, publishing fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and other forms of text, such as geometrical proofs, political persuasion, and business plans--if they're interesting. ''Coeval'' prints artworks as well.
★ Men and Women's Cross Country
★ Men and Women's Track and Field
★ Men's Baseball
★ Women's Softball
★ Men and Women's Basketball
★ Men and Women's Hockey
★ Men and Women's Soccer
★ Men and Women's Tennis
★ Men's Football
★ Women's Volleyball
★ Men's Rugby
★ Men and Women's Lacrosse
★ Sand Volleyball
★ Disc Golf
★ Ice Fishing
★ Snowboarding
★ Ultimate Frisbee
★ Flag Football
★ Intramural Sports (Broomball, basketball, etc.)
★ Joel Hodgson, creator of (and main character in) Mystery Science Theatre 3000.
★ Mary Pawlenty, former District Court Judge and wife of Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty.
★ Ron Tschetter, Director of the Peace Corps.
★ Jay Johnson, convicted murderer.[1]
★ Bethel University
★ Bethel Seminary
1. http://www.deepfocusproductions.com/page_html/film_LTK1.html#johnson
'Bethel University' is a Christian higher education institution with approximately 6,000 students from 36 countries enrolled in undergraduate, graduate, seminary, and adult education programs. The main campus is located in Arden Hills, Minnesota, and the school has satellite seminary locations on both coasts.
The university has a performing arts program, including Benson Great Hall, a concert halls, and The Bethel Choir, the university's 75-voice concert choir which has performed throughout Europe and Scandinavia.
Fully accredited by the Higher Learning Commission--North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, the university is also a member of the Christian College Consortium.
Bethel University is affiliated with and supported by the congregations of the Baptist General Conference.
History
Bethel University began in Chicago, Illinois, in 1871 as a seminary for Baptist immigrants from Sweden. The seminary merged with Bethel Academy in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1914. In 1931 the Academy became Bethel Junior College. The addition of a four-year liberal arts college program created Bethel College and Seminary in 1947. Beginning in 2004, the institution amended its name to Bethel University, better reflecting the broad scope of its academic programs.
Schools of Bethel University
Bethel University is divided into five different schools, each focusing on a different area:
College of Arts & Sciences
★ College of Arts & Sciences
The College of Arts & Sciences offers 66 majors (78 including emphases within majors) and 41 minors (42 including emphases within minors).
College of Adult & Professional Studies
★ College of Adult & Professional Studies
Graduate School
★ Graduate School
School for Executive Leadership
★ School for Executive Leadership
Bethel Seminary
★ Bethel Seminary
Facilities - Main Arden Hills, MN Campus
Main Education Buildings
There are five main education buildings located on Bethel University's main campus in Arden Hills, MN. They run Southwest/Northeast and are centrally located within the campus. They are all connected through weather-protected skyways and tunnels.
Starting from the Southwest and running to the Northeast the buildings are as follows (with abbreviations in parentheses): Benson Great Hall and Lundquist Community Life Center (CLC), Academic Center (AC), Clauson Fine Arts Center (CC), Hagstrom Student Services Center (HC), and Robertson Physical Education Center (RC).
Map of Campus
Campus Housing
There are four freshman residence halls located on-campus. Three of them are on a hill known as Freshman Hill; they are Bodien Hall, Getsch Hall, and Edgren Hall. The other freshman dorm is Nelson Hall, and it is located a short distance away from Freshman Hill. Nelson Hall is the oldest building on Bethel University's current campus in Arden Hills.
There are three residence halls that house mainly sophomores located on-campus: Arden Village West, Arden Village East, and Lissner Hall. Lissner Hall is the newest building on campus; it was completed in the Summer of 2005.
Two residence complexes, North Village and Fountain Terrace, house mostly juniors. Fountain Terrace is a renovated apartment complex located about two miles from the main campus. A shuttle service runs regularly between Fountain Terrace and the campus. North Village (a housing compound comprising five small residence halls) is located on the campus within walking distance of the academic buildings, but a shuttle also services these residences due to the occasionally extreme Minnesota climate.
Heritage Hall is the primary senior residence on campus, but also houses some juniors.
Many upperclassmen live off-campus.
Academics
Bethel University offers a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs. It regularly achieves the top ranks in the US News and World Reports. Undergraduates leave Bethel for positions in industry, social service, community organizations, and many other fields. Graduates have gone to excel top graduate schools in the United States, including Yale, Princeton, University of Chicago, and many others.
In the last ten years there has been a strong emphasis on study abroad, and Bethel offers programs on every continent and highly encourages its students to study for a semester or, at least, a January term in some other part of the world.
The Covenant
All full-time students and professors are expected to abide by a Covenant for Life Together. This lifestyle agreement focuses on living a Christian life of personal morality, which includes a respect for all persons and ethnic traditions, refraining from extra-marital sex, gambling, and the use of alcohol, illegal drugs, and tobacco in any form. The goal of the Covenant is to build a community of faith and learning centered around common values.
Reconciliation
In the last four years Bethel University has embraced a call to Biblical Reconciliation. The ministry of reconciliation is one that brings people together across social divisions that exist. In the case of Bethel this specifically means the idea of racial reconciliation. The push towards reconciliation arose out of outwardly racist events that happened in the 2002-2003 school year. Since that time Bethel University has made great strides towards reconciliation. Some of these things include creating a department of reconciliation, offering major and minors in the study of reconciliation, going through the Minnesota Collaborative Anti-Racism Initiative(MCARI), has created the Bethel Anti racism and Reconciliation Commission (BAARC), and has added as their seventh core value the following statement: "We are reconcilers—honoring the worth and dignity of people from all races and purposely seeking to create a community that reflects the diversity of the Body of Christ."
While there has been much work for racial reconciliation at Bethel, there is still much more to be done. "The students at Bethel are for the most part white, middle class and from states in the upper mid-west. So life at Bethel presents a false picture of the world and the membership of the kingdom of God," says Professor of Philosophy Stanley D. Anderson. Bethel students, faculty, and staff still remain, in the broad sense, unaffected by the concerns for racial reconciliation evident at Bethel. The majority of the white people at Bethel are unaware of issues around diversity and racial reconciliation, due to systematic white privilege. This has caused many people of color at Bethel to be tokenized, and left to fight battles around these issues by themselves. Bethel continues to fight for racial reconciliation though, regardless of the lack of commitment. Bethel has hired numerous staff and faculty to help to truly bring racial reconciliation in as one of it's core values.
Student Publications
Bethel University has two student publications, ''The Clarion'' and the ''Coeval.'' ''The Clarion'' is a weekly newspaper run by paid students. The ''Coeval'' is Bethel's bi-annual fine arts journal, publishing fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and other forms of text, such as geometrical proofs, political persuasion, and business plans--if they're interesting. ''Coeval'' prints artworks as well.
Sports
★ Men and Women's Cross Country
★ Men and Women's Track and Field
★ Men's Baseball
★ Women's Softball
★ Men and Women's Basketball
★ Men and Women's Hockey
★ Men and Women's Soccer
★ Men and Women's Tennis
★ Men's Football
★ Women's Volleyball
★ Men's Rugby
★ Men and Women's Lacrosse
On-Campus Activities
★ Sand Volleyball
★ Disc Golf
★ Ice Fishing
★ Snowboarding
★ Ultimate Frisbee
★ Flag Football
★ Intramural Sports (Broomball, basketball, etc.)
Notable Alumni
★ Joel Hodgson, creator of (and main character in) Mystery Science Theatre 3000.
★ Mary Pawlenty, former District Court Judge and wife of Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty.
★ Ron Tschetter, Director of the Peace Corps.
★ Jay Johnson, convicted murderer.[1]
External links
★ Bethel University
★ Bethel Seminary
References
1. http://www.deepfocusproductions.com/page_html/film_LTK1.html#johnson
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