Coming March 30: Nancy Koester on Sojourner Truth

To conclude Women's History Month, we're happy to welcome to campus historian Nancy Koester, who will give a book talk next Thursday (March 30) on her new religious biography of Sojourner Truth, We Will Be Free. Dr. Koester will be speaking at 11:15am in the Bethel University Library; her book will be available for sale …

Announcing… Our Digital Humanities Minor

This month we've announced several new programs — a minor in Pre-Law and endorsements in Classics and Military & Diplomatic Studies — and a significant revision to our Philosophy major. To conclude our series, we're changing one of our majors to a minor, to make it more accessible to more Bethel students as a complement to their …

Announcing… Our Applied Philosophy Major

As our students and professors come back from Spring Break today, we pick our series announcing new and revised programs. Most of those announcements have to do with minors and endorsements, but today we come to a significant change to one of our core majors. Applied Philosophy Major Faculty Contacts: Sara Shady and Dan Yim …

Announcing… Our Classics Endorsement

As our series announcing new and revised programs continues, we share the return of an old field to the Bethel curriculum. Classics Endorsement Faculty Contact: Charlie Goldberg (History) For many years, Bethel offered a minor in Classics, an interdisciplinary field that straddles disciplines like history, biblical studies, philosophy, languages, and archeology. With some of our …

Announcing… Our Military & Diplomatic Studies Endorsement

Our series introducing new and revised programs continues today with the first of two new endorsements, "mini-minors" in focused fields that pair well with our majors and others. Military & Diplomatic Studies Endorsement Faculty Contacts: Chris Gehrz (History) and Chris Moore (Political Science) First things first... I know what a major and minor are, but …

Announcing… Our Pre-Law Minor

With an eye to our spring Advising Day on March 29th, this month we're excited to share announcements about several new and revised programs available to current and incoming students. You'll learn about two new endorsements later this week, but we'll start with a new minor that will prepare our students even better for one …

Meet Our New Social Media TA: Kyle Zwart

After serving as our social media TA for three semesters, Essie Shull graduated last December with a degree in History and Digital Humanities. So today I'm happy to announce her successor: Kyle Zwart '25. Most of Kyle's work will show up on our Instagram account, starting with a March series on historical movies. But I …

Stan Anderson (1937-2023)

We're sorry to report the passing of Dr. Stanley D. Anderson Jr., who came to Bethel in 1968 and taught philosophy here for over 40 years. Stan passed away on January 3rd, at age 85, a year after the death of his wife, Ruth. Stan earned degrees from Wheaton College, Gordon Divinity School, Boston University, …

The Things They Carried: Sara Shady

Today we hear from one of our philosophy professors, Dr. Sara Shady. Professor Shady also serves as Associate Dean for Academic Inclusive Excellence here at Bethel. Read on to learn a bit about the things she keeps, or "the things she carries," in her office space. If you missed our post on Dr. Kooistra earlier …

The Things They Carried: AnneMarie Kooistra

Before the semester wraps up for our students next week, we have a few more faculty posts to share with you all! Today we take a look at some of the things Dr. AnneMarie Kooistra keeps as a professor of history and co-director of the Bethel Honors Program. Click here if you missed the previous …