Bethel College Board appoints Gering to second term
The Board of Directors has given Jon C. Gering, Ph.D., a second term as president of Bethel College in a unanimous vote.
Gering began serving as president Jan. 29, 2018. He has been appointed to a 5-year term effective July 1, 2021.
Gering is a 1994 Bethel honors graduate in biology, with master’s and doctoral degrees from Miami University of Ohio, and spent 17 years as a faculty member in the Department of Biology and as an administrator at Truman State University, Kirksville, Mo., before assuming the Bethel presidency.
“The board enthusiastically renewed President Gering’s contract for five years – a direct result of the confidence we have and value we place in his leadership,” said Lori Schmidt-Harrison, Santa Barbara, Calif., vice chair of the Bethel Board of Directors.