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“I’m definitely sad to see them go.”īustichi said he hopes the university will provide security to the campus after it’s vacated to prevent the area from becoming “an attractive nuisance.” “It’s sad, kind of shocking in a way,” Bustichi said. In addition, business owners have relied on the small student body to shop and eat at local shops and restaurants, he said. He said several small local businesses depended on hiring Bethany students for part-time work. Scotts Valley Mayor Dene Bustichi said Bethany’s closure will be a loss to the community. “I’m devastated, absolutely devastated,” Anderson said Monday. Anderson’s father was vice president of academics, and she, her husband and their two children graduated from Bethany. Her family’s connection with Bethany traces back several decades, including her mother-in-law serving as the founding president’s secretary. Sharon Anderson, who was named Bethany’s interim president last week when Shelton said he would step down, has worked for the college for 22 years, including various teaching and administrative roles. “All those things have to be decided,” he said. What will happen with the property, including several university-owned houses on the campus, after the closure was unknown Monday, Shelton said. Tuition and room and board for full-time students is about $26,000, according to the university’s website. Letters and emails will be sent to parents and students from the university by the end of the week to inform them of the decision, Shelton said.ĭetails of the closure process will be posted to the Bethany website each day, he said.Īrrangements are being worked out in regard to final pay for staff, refunds for students, scholarships for athletes, transferring student credits to other universities, providing student transcripts and settling debts to Bethany’s numerous vendors, he said. No instruction will take place in the fall. Bethany has an enrollment of approximately 400 students, down from 500 in recent years, and there are about 22 full-time faculty and up to 50 adjunct faculty.Ĭampus officials are planning to complete the summer and online courses already under way.
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The university, located in a hilly, wooded corner of north Scotts Valley, is owned by the Assemblies of God Northern California and Nevada District and is the Assemblies of God’s oldest college in the U.S. They seemed to be a loving, happy couple.Bethany officials are working with Western Association of Schools and Colleges, an agency charged with evaluating the effectiveness of schools, to execute the close. She seemed to be more outgoing than he was, but they’d come over and talk to us. “They were a very quiet family,” said Phil Begin, who lives a couple houses down the street.
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“He wanted to do the best by his family, but he lost his job recently and I think that put stress on him,” Ducharme said. Nathaniel Gordon “really supported Sarah, letting her stop work and continue her education,” but he recently lost his own job at the Augusta Armory and was working various jobs, including at the T-Mobile call center in Oakland and at the Target store in Augusta, Ducharme said. Recently, she stopped working she was going back to school to become a doctor, Ducharme said. A hospital spokeswoman said she left a couple of months ago.ĭucharme said Sarah Gordon was a phlebotomist, a technician trained to draw blood. Sarah Gordon worked as a medical assistant at Redington-Fairview General Hospital in Skowhegan.