College is a time of growth, discovery, and new experiences — through academics, athletics, the arts, clubs, leadership opportunities, and more. Along the way, challenges and stress are a normal part ...

Dr. Barbara Fast, a 1975 Bethel College graduate and professor emerita of piano at the University of Oklahoma, received the 2026 Erwin C. and Verna Kaufman Goering Music Award during Bethel’s annual ...

Bethel College held two events at the end of the spring 2026 semester that recognized student achievement in academics, athletics, research and leadership. The annual Awards Convocation took place ...

Kauffman Museum’s special exhibit closes with a final presentation May 24 at 3 p.m. The Sunday-Afternoon-at-the-Museum program by Sara Judge Keckeisen, Topeka, takes place on the final day of the ...

One hundred sixty Bethel College students had spring 2026 grades that earned academic distinction. In addition, 77 students graduated from Bethel on May 10. Students whose semester grade point average ...

The second senior exhibit of the school year showcases the work of three graduating seniors working with artist books (paper sculpture), graphic design, painting and mixed media. Tre August, Houston, ...

There are only a few weeks left to see Kauffman Museum’s award-winning “Voices of Conscience: Peace Witness in the Great War,” the current special exhibit. And that time period will include two ...

An idea living in Sheryl Wilson’s head for years has now become three-dimensional in a new book. Wilson is vice president for culture and belonging at Bethel College. She and Caitlin Morneau are ...

Wynn Goering, the current chair of the Bethel College Board of Directors, will assume the duties of interim president on July 1, the board announced March 30, after the conclusion of its spring ...

Bethel has an agrarian mascot – the Threshers – and agrarian history to go with it, one that Jason Schmidt dreams of restoring in the 21st century. And if you’ve seen the flock of goats in the North ...

If Dr. Siobhán Scarry’s new book were a piece of visual art, it would be described as “mixed media.” Parlor Press will publish Figure in a Field: Poems & Investigations later this year through its ...

In 1978, Tim Wiens ’74 was a young social worker, just four years past earning his bachelor’s degree at Bethel, when his congregation, Hyattsville (Md.) Mennonite Church, called him to join a ministry ...