Alex FriedrichBethel University will send the Department of Education the results of its FY 2013 audit this week, which campus officials say shows the university is financially healthy. The university has been in a battle with the feds over the results of a national college financial-health test, which the government says Bethel flunked. But campus officials Read more →
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Bethel was among the schools questioning the Education Department’s financial assessment of colleges. Read more →
Two updates to the Bethel-University-v.-The-Feds story I covered last week: It sounds like Bethel will get a chance to air its grievances with the U.S. Dept. of Education later this month over the department’s financial-health test, and it should get some breathing room on a penalty it says it shouldn’t have to pay. In detail: Read more →
On Friday, I reported on Bethel University‘s fight with the U.S. Dept. of Education over how the ED has been conducting its test of financial health on U.S. private colleges and universities. The feds say Bethel has failed it, and want it to post a multimillion-dollar letter of credit as a form of insurance. But Read more →
Bethel University is challenging sanctions imposed by the U.S. Department of Education, which says the school has flunked its assessment of financial health. Federal officials have given the school until later this month to post a multimillion-dollar letter of credit. But the university’s finance chief says Bethel is doing fine, and that the federal assessment Read more →
Bethel University is trying to start a winter tradition: Broomball. So it called over 40 high school and 60 college students from the area for a tournament this weekend. Looks like fun, judging from the slideshow it posted. The Bethel students will have to work those chops for next year, though. They ended up getting Read more →
Father Dennis Dease, president of the University of St. Thomas, on being called names by climate skeptic Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, during a dispute between Monckton and St. Thomas Professor John Abraham: This is the first time I have been called a creep – at least by a peer of the realm, Read more →
Matthew McDermott via Wikimedia Commons Welcome at Bethel? Academic and environmental blogs have been aflame over the recent nastiness of the dispute between climate skeptic Christopher Monckton and St. Thomas University professor John Abraham. Amid all the hubbub over Monckton’s outlandish behavior and the debate over who has the science right, something strikes me as odd: Here we have a minor celebrity Read more →