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i LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER BETHEL COLLEGE | 3900 Bethel Drive [ St. Paul, Minnesota 551 CLARION 4 September 1987 Vol. 63 No. Goals designed to make Brushaber more effective president In a continuing effort to meet the needs of the student in the latter 1980's, Bethel College is reaching toward a series of eight goals that were identified over a year ago in the Strategic Planning Process. "During the course of the year, we tried to work on all eight at the same time and found that we were probably best served by developing three of them intensely and then we'll develop three more and so fourth," said Bethel College and Seminary President George K. Brushaber. The three goals currently under development: maintaining and improving Bethel's enrollment, enhancing community life at Bethel and improving the campus climate, and revitalizing and expanding student life and development programs. The reorganization is targeted at making President Brushaber more effective at meeting the responsibilities and duties of a college president. "Bethel is a complete institution, more complex than many of the other private colleges in Minnesota because we have both a college and a seminary. Most other schools like Macal- ester and St. Olaf are stand-alones, they're single institutions. Secondly, the Seminary has another campus and a fullblown program in California. And it's important that I spend significant amounts of time working with the California campus and that necessitates being gone quite a lot. Third, Bethel is one of only a very few private colleges that has its own foundation; a free-standing independent corporation, developed solely to support the programs and services of Bethel. 1 happen to be president of that foundation. And finally, I have a denominational role. Bethel is owned and operated by the Baptist Genera! Conference, with denominational headquarters in Chicago, and I serve as the secretary of higher education for the Conference," said President Brushaber. Three years ago the Committee on Program Review recommended that the president delegate more authority and consolidate some of the offices reporting to him. At one point as many as 11 people reported directly to the president, spreading him thinly among an array of job duties. A component necessary to realizing the three goals is the reorganization of Bethel's upper administrative tier. President Brushaber said, "Reorganization is one of the things that we hope helps serve those three goals. This is something that has been in the process for several years and something in which the Board of Regents has taken a keen interest, and has been very supportive and has encouraged me to move in this direction. We're trying to do a lot of other things to meet those three goals." The first visible step in the delegating and consolidating process, or reorganization, took place in January of last year with the creation of the post of Executive Vice- President for Finance and Administration, and the hiring of Sherm Swenson to fill the position. "Which, incidentally, 1 think has been a terrific piece of good news for Bethel," said Brushaber. Swenson is responsible for managing all areas of central administration, which includes the business offices, recruiting, admissions, fin<in- cial aid, fund-raising, marketing, advertising, physical plant and the food service. In short, all areas that do not fall under the headings of faculty and academic affaris and student development. The reorganization plan calls for appointing two other executive vice-presidents, one for the seminary and the other for the college. Dr. Millard Erickson will continue to oversee the affairs of the seminary, while on the college side a position for a provost has been opened and recruitment efforts are underway to find the best possible candidate. The creation of a provost at the college has been the most controversial of the reorganization plans because it appears in the face of recent faculty cuts. President Brushaber has been criticized for the move, because it appears to be insensitive to ailing academic programs on campus, such as the recently suspended socio-linguistics major and the nominal foreign language program. Brushaber offered this response, "One of the things the provost will be expected to do is to George K. Brushaber, president of Bethel College and Seminary. lead strongly the efforts to build those areas and strengthen those areas. If you have a last place baseball team, you have Faculty sheds sedate image at retreat by Tracy Stocking Does the species of savants, more commonly known to Bethel students as faculty members, know how to have a good time? The answer is yes, according to unanimous reports. Under the guise of a retreat, 92 members of Bethel's staff had a wild and crazy time as well as a productive experience at Camp Courage on August 26 &, 27. Perhaps even the faculty were surprised at what a great time they were able to produce. Directed by retreat chairman John Herzog, a committee worked to make this year's gathering different from others by eliminating the business matters and focusing on developing community among faculty members. Only the staff directly involved with teaching or with the students' educational experience were invited to attend, thus promoting a sense of unity through purpose. "Betheling" was the term coined to describe the activities the faculty enjoyed during the two days. Betheling means "a syn- cratic process indigenous to the Bethel (St. Paul) College community which produces a unique whole from the interac tion of its parts." (Their scholarly mode of thinking is difficult for the faculty to escape even when they are trying to have fun.) The Betheling the faculty engaged in ranged from the serious to the hilarious. On the more solemn occasions they participated in morning devotions and evening communion and attended discussion groups on their diverse and united roles. Dale Rott noted his appreciation of the "variety of people who participated, not just one person yakking away the whole time." Rott also commented on how "the only business [at the retreat] was monkey business." He was referring specifically to the program held on the evening of the 26th, a talent show organized by Neil and Virginia Lettinga. For 90 laughter-filled minutes, various faculty members entertained their colleagues with crazy skills. Tom Becknell opened with ragtime piano playing, followed by Tom Greenlee "preaching" in the style of Jim Bakker and Jerry Falwell. Virginia Lettinga and Dan Ritchie's talents were channeled into writing a mini-opera in the style of Gilbert and Sullivan, only with Bethelized lyrics to be performed by a lusty chorus. Art Lewis provided a 1940's style music-comedy show, playing the marimba, and Nancy Vail pulled volunteers from the audience to participate in a melodramatic skit of Dudley Do-right. Closing the show was a barbershop quartet composed of biology department staff: Jim Reynhout, Robert Kistler, Weldon Jones, and Tim Shaw, accompanied by Don Albright, completed the "Biodegradables." As if the talent show weren't enough, the entire group of 92 went out for a snack of pizza in Buffalo and took over the entire Pizza Barn in the process. While they might have become a little unruly and noisy, they went home and settled down to a bedtime story about Winnie the Pooh and a heffalump, read by John Lawyer. The next morning they went back to tamer Betheling activities, and by mid-afternoon departed for home and their scholarly roles. Lest they forget the wilder side of their personalities, a video tape of the talent show, courtesy of Dale Rott, can always be reviewed. Was the retreat a success in terms of meeting its goal of unity? If unity is promoted by better understanding of one another, then yes, the retreat was a huge success. Elaine Gunderson commented that it was "very effective in building relationships." Says Neil Lettinga, "We found we like each other better when we came home than when we left." And Lorraine Eitei concludes, "We had a good time." to work on both fronts. You have to hire a strong second baseman and a leading home-run hitter, butyou also have to hire a good coach who will be good in the recruitment draft, and trading and so forth. And that's part of the game, building that faculty is in part a matter of wise recruitment and energetic promotion. For instance if we could get a foundation to give us money to support the foreign language program, at least for the first couple of years." The reorganization reduces the number of people reporting directly to the president to three. Underneath the three executive vice-presidents is a layer of divisional vice-presidents. They include Tom Johnson, marketing and enrollment; Dave Lissner, Bethel Foundation; Mark Kron- holm, development and public relations; Dwight Jessup, academic affairs; and Judy Moseman, student life. The latter two vice-presidents wilI report to the provost, the other three report to Sherm Swenson. The focus of the reorganization is on making the president's job obligations outside of the Arden Hills campus easier to meet, while enhancing communication on all levels of the college, but it will also serve to aid in implementing the three goals under development from the Strategic Planning Process. Wet squirrel shorts CLICnet system Even though students may use the library's new electronic catalog, nobody should be surprised if the system downs. Power has failed four times in the last six weeks at Macalester College where the Cooperating Libraries in Consortium (CLIC) network is located. Although some power failures are the trials of large computer systems, at one time a wet squirrel shorted the electricy, according to Northern States Power. Carlyle Systems Inc., who has supplied CLIC with the million dollar system has installed terminals at all nine cooperating libraries, but has not certified a single one to work. Library Director Robert Suder- man said this shakedown period might last a half year. And until the confidence level is good and high, the out-of-date card catalog and microfiche will stick around. The installation of CLICnet may take another two years to complete as features are phased in and tested one by one. Within a year, CLICnet hopes to provide on-line information about each book, whether it is being borrowed or not. Plastic cards with magnetic bars will also be issued. Eventually the inter-library loan request forms will be obsolete when books can be loaned on-line. The advantage of this system is that students do not need the alphabet to find a book. Instead of the usual four access points with the conventional card catalog, the computer allows 35 access points. It functions in a way so that only certain parts of the title is all that a user knows. But the disadvantage concerns the load average at the central site. Current stress allows 150 terminals. Bethel hasten. However, plans are underway to allow all campus terminals to have access to CLICnet.
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Description
Title | Page 1 |
Alternative Title | The Bethel Clarion |
Edition (Vol. No.) | Vol. 63 No. 01 |
Date Published | September 04 1987 |
Decade | 1980 |
Academic Year | 1987 - 1988 |
Frequency | Biweekly |
Notes | This project has been financed in part with funds provided by the State of Minnesota through the Minnesota Historical Society from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. |
Digital Collection | The Clarion: Bethel University's Student Newspaper |
Digital Publisher | Bethel University |
Editor | France, Douglas C. |
Contributors | Sanchez, Victor (Design Consultant); Wiering, Ken (News Editor); Stocking, Tracy (Feature Editor); Wenzel, Holly (Copy Editor); France, Douglas C. (Op-Ed Editor, Arts Editor); Moore, Marvin (Sports Editor); Wessman, George (Photo Editor); Larimer, Kayne (Ad Sales); Twogood, Ryan (Business Manager); Lee, Lori (Layout & Design); Osmundson, Lisa (Layout & Design) |
Location |
United States Minnesota Saint Paul |
Time Span of Publication | Newspaper published from 1921 through present day |
Copyright | Reproduction or distribution of these files is permitted for educational and research purposes with proper attribution to the Bethel Digital Library. No commercial reproduction or distribution of these files is permitted under copyright law without the written permission of Bethel University Digital Library. For questions or further information on this collection, contact digital-library@bethel.edu. |
Type | text |
Format | image/jpeg |
Physical Dimensions | 11.5 x 17 |
Original Collection | Printed paper copies of original newspaper in the collections of the Bethel University Library and the History Center: Archives of the Baptist General Conference and Bethel University. |
Original Publisher | Bethel College |
Transcript |
i LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER
BETHEL COLLEGE
| 3900 Bethel Drive
[ St. Paul, Minnesota 551
CLARION
4 September 1987
Vol. 63 No.
Goals designed to make Brushaber more effective president
In a continuing effort to meet the needs of
the student in the latter 1980's, Bethel College is reaching toward a series of eight
goals that were identified over a year ago
in the Strategic Planning Process. "During
the course of the year, we tried to work on
all eight at the same time and found that
we were probably best served by developing three of them intensely and then
we'll develop three more and so fourth,"
said Bethel College and Seminary President George K. Brushaber.
The three goals currently under development: maintaining and improving
Bethel's enrollment, enhancing community life at Bethel and improving the campus climate, and revitalizing and expanding student life and development programs.
The reorganization is targeted at making
President Brushaber more effective at
meeting the responsibilities and duties of
a college president. "Bethel is a complete
institution, more complex than many of
the other private colleges in Minnesota
because we have both a college and a
seminary. Most other schools like Macal-
ester and St. Olaf are stand-alones,
they're single institutions. Secondly, the
Seminary has another campus and a fullblown program in California. And it's important that I spend significant amounts
of time working with the California campus and that necessitates being gone
quite a lot. Third, Bethel is one of only a
very few private colleges that has its own
foundation; a free-standing independent
corporation, developed solely to support
the programs and services of Bethel. 1
happen to be president of that foundation. And finally, I have a denominational
role. Bethel is owned and operated by the
Baptist Genera! Conference, with denominational headquarters in Chicago, and I
serve as the secretary of higher education
for the Conference," said President
Brushaber.
Three years ago the Committee on Program Review recommended that the
president delegate more authority and
consolidate some of the offices reporting
to him. At one point as many as 11 people
reported directly to the president, spreading him thinly among an array of job
duties.
A component necessary to realizing the
three goals is the reorganization of
Bethel's upper administrative tier. President Brushaber said, "Reorganization is
one of the things that we hope helps
serve those three goals. This is something
that has been in the process for several
years and something in which the Board of
Regents has taken a keen interest, and has
been very supportive and has encouraged me to move in this direction. We're
trying to do a lot of other things to meet
those three goals."
The first visible step in the delegating and
consolidating process, or reorganization,
took place in January of last year with the
creation of the post of Executive Vice-
President for Finance and Administration,
and the hiring of Sherm Swenson to fill the
position. "Which, incidentally, 1 think has
been a terrific piece of good news for
Bethel," said Brushaber. Swenson is responsible for managing all areas of central
administration, which includes the business offices, recruiting, admissions, fin |
Language | English |
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