Scope and Contents The Bethel Provost Office collection dates primarily between 1965 to 2008 and spans 19.5 cubic feet. The first section of the collection contains folders by topic for Bethel University and Seminary. Topics include—but are not limited to—academic and lifestyle policies, spending, degree programs, news items, and institutional organization. The Assessment folder contains documents relating to a 1990s committee to research student achievement and improve teaching.The...

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The Bethel Reports collection contains reports, studies, and communications from Bethel College and Seminary regarding varying aspects of the school, departments, and administration. Some date to the former Snelling Avenue campus, but the majority are from the Arden Hills campus. The main college departments featured in this collection are Education, Social Work, and Nursing. The Seminary also has a large portion of the collection.

Scope and Contents The Bethel Scrapbooks were created mostly by Bethel students about their time at Bethel, particularly featuring music tours. This collection dates from 1908 to 1972.The Norma Seaquist scrapbooks were created by a Bethel student between 1943 and 1945. The first scrapbook was labeled "Family move from No. Dakkota to Nebraska." The second was labeled "Michigan summer - 1945."The Audrey Weldon Johnson scrapbook dates between 1959 and 1951. It contains...

Scope and Contents The Seminary Dean's Office collection dates between 1985 and 2009 and spans 4.5 cubic feet in three boxes. The three Faculty Appreciation Dinner folders contain material from 2001 and 2003 to 2005. They contain event programs, guest lists, and planning information. The Cross Cultural Learning Grant folders date between 1996 to 1997 and 2001 to 2009. The grant supported faculty teaching abroad. The Achieving Cultural Diversity grant proposal was submitted to the...

Scope and Contents The Seminary Intensives collection spans one box of 1.5 cubic feet, dating from 1994 to 2005. The Binders contain planning information for the intensives, including hotel information, church lists, schedules, catering information, and other documents. The Evaluations were filled out by students who went through the Intensives assessing the program. The Sample Packets were handed to students during intensives for reference. The Planning folder...

Scope and Contents The Bethel Theological Seminary collection dates from 1871 to 2023 and spans 40 boxes of 57.5 cubic feet. The Dean's Office records series contains primarily student letters of application. This series dates between 1889 to 1919. Teologisk Indledning og Bibliologi is a mimeographed textbook from a course at the Danish-Norwegian seminary at Morgan Park, Illinois from 1901.The Swedish American Bible Seminary ledger holds lists of students admitted to the school...

Scope and Contents The Norris Magnuson papers date between 1944 and 1999 and span 10.5 cubic feet in seven boxes.The Bethel series contains documents from Magnuson's time as a student at Bethel. The Analysis of Pealism was a paper written for the class Pastoral Counseling with Dean Omark in 1956. The Conversion of St. Paul was a paper written for the class Psychology of Religion in 1960. Three notebooks are filled with class notes from classes, two taught by Dr. Fagerstrom. The folders mostly hold...

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This collection consists of 33 volumes of lectures given at the Theological Seminary at Morgan Park, Illinois, before the Seminary merged with Bethel Academy. These represent nine courses made up of fourteen lectures. Multiple copies of the same lecture owned by different people are included. There is also a cover of a missing book, annotated with biblical references.

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The Transformational Church Series recordings collection dates between 1996 and 2007 and covers three cubic feet.

The audio recordings date from 1997 to 2007. The programs and workbooks list program sessions and speakers. The planning binder dates between 1996 and 2004, containing meeting minutes, programs, and evaluation questionnaires.