When budgets cut deeper

After 37 years at Bethel, Carlson-Lombardi is one of the 11 professors whose positions were terminated following Bethel’s most recent round of budget cuts. She was a transfer student who loved Bethel for its vibrant community and authentic faculty. Bethel was even responsible for the sponsorship letter that helped her husband, originally from South America, come to the United States. In 2017, after years of teaching elsewhere, including adjunct positions at the University of Minnesota, she returned to be a full-time professor in Bethel’s language department. Although she had heard about the budget cuts sweeping the country, she had no idea how deep they would cut at Bethel. “You always think it’s gonna happen somewhere else,” she said. <a href="https://medium.com/bethel-bytes/when-budgets-cut-deeper-8c48ec331148">Click Here</a>