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Opportunity Profile—Process

• The Opportunity
• The Person
• The Position
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The Process of Candidacy

The search committee will begin reviewing candidates in early December, 2007.  The new president is expected to take office in the summer of 2008.

Anyone interested in being considered for this position should visit and do an in-depth study of the Bethel University website (www.bethel.edu).

In order to help the search committee get a more complete picture of you and your candidacy, please provide essay responses to the following questions:

1. How has your faith journey defined you as a person and prepared you to be president of a university rooted in the evangelical, pietistic tradition of the Christian church?
   
   
   
2. Discuss the marks of maturity of intellect, character, interpersonal relationships, and Christian faith that must be nurtured in students if the university is truly to prepare them for lives of service, leadership, and reconciliation in church and society.
   
   
   
3. Describe the essential elements of your leadership style and how this style would enable you to excel in organizational, academic, and fiscal leadership of Bethel University. Include a high and a low point from your past leadership experiences, and tell us what you learned from them. If you don’t have specific academic experience, what other experiences lead you to believe you can be successful in academic leadership?
   
   
   
4. Please briefly define the following terms: diversity, reconciliation, antiracism, and social justice. Then write a brief narrative illustrating from your life, leadership, and faith journey how these ideas have taken on flesh through your lifestyle, actions, and discipleship.
   
   
   
5. Please share your experiences in fund raising and development. If you have not had such experience, please elaborate on what skills you have that lead you to believe that you can be successful in those areas.

Tommy W. Thomas, D.Phil. – Partner People Management International

Phone: 615.463.2800 Fax: 615.463.2944 Email: info@JobFitMatters.com

(Please email attachments in Word or .doc format.) This Opportunity Profile has also been posted on the website www.JobFitMatters.com and can be accessed by going to that site, clicking on Searches/Current Searches/Education-Nonprofit, and then going to the search titled: President Bethel University St. Paul, Minnesota

Bethel University is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages the candidacy of women and minorities.