Bethel’s nontraditional programs will host an information night on Thursday, July 12 from 6-7:00 p.m. in the Everest-Rohrer Chapel/Fine Arts Center – Rotunda.

Participants will learn how Bethel’s accelerated degree programs are designed to help adult students earn the degree they need to change careers, change opportunities and change their life.

Benefits to Bethel’s…

Bethel College’s religion and philosophy department recently received a $437,500 grant from the Kern Family Foundation to transform and enhance Bethel’s theological education. In the fall of 2012, the college will add a new program — the Master of Christian Ministries degree.

Ministerial graduates typically enter into pastoral vocations, which is traditionally an underpaid…

Bethel College held a groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion of the Bethel Bookstore, which will also include the school’s coffeehouse, Sufficient Grounds. The event took place on Wednesday, May 16 on the south side of the bookstore’s current campus location.

“This came out of a desire to bring together the functions of the coffeehouse and bookstore,” says Ed Bernhard, Bethel’s director…

Cristian Mihut, an assistant professor of philosophy at Bethel College, recently received a $43,500 research grant funded by the John Templeton Foundation on behalf of The Character Project at Wake Forest University. Mihut submitted his proposal under the Theology of Character competition entitled "New Frontiers in the Theology of Character.”

Mihut’s research topic focuses on theological…

More than 100 local businessmen will attend a fundraising luncheon for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) on Thursday, May 10 from noon to 1:30 p.m. Former Notre Dame basketball player Luke Zeller will be the main speaker at the event, which will be held in the Everest-Rohrer Fine Arts Chapel – Rotunda

The event was organized by Bethel’s Tony Natali, the men’s assistant…

Bethel College will offer “Summer Institute for Teachers” on June 11, 12 and 13 in the Miller-Moore Academic Center, Room AC 342. Those participating in the three-day learning experience can earn up to 18 professional growth points (PGPs) or three graduate credits. Registration will be limited to the first 125 participants per session.

Topics include:

• “Common…

Four Bethel College professors and alumni recently collaborated on a book project, “The Activist Impulse: Essays on the Intersection of Evangelicalism and Anabaptism,” which was released earlier this month by Pickwick Publications. Contributors include Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy Tim Erdel, Ph.D., Instructor of Writing Joel Boehner (’05) and former adjunct instructors…

About 160 adults will receive their GED diploma from the South Bend Community School Corporation’s Adult Education Testing Center. Commencement will be held April 30 at 7 p.m. at Bethel College’s Wiekamp Athletic Center inside Gates Gymnasium. Doors open at 6 p.m.

This ceremony will honor adults who have successfully passed the GED Test at the GED Testing Center during the past 12 months.…

Bethel College’s nontraditional programs is now accepting applications for adult students interested in a bachelor of science in criminal justice as a degree completion program. This is just on the heels of the nontraditional programs’ recently launched online program last month.

“Of the traditional programs we get asked about on the nontraditional side, criminal justice…

Bethel will offer its fifth annual Academic Camps, which provide campers, from ages 7-17, with the opportunity to explore the vast world of academics. Taught by Bethel professors, along with students and staff, the camps will run during the months of June and July. The cost per camper is $125, with the exceptions of the ceramics and youth gospel choir camps.

Campers who successfully complete…