Bethel welcomes VP for business and finance
President Jon C. Gering announces the appointment of Jayna Bertholf, CPA, Winfield, as vice president for business and finance, to start March 14.
Bertholf is a 1992 graduate of Kansas State College, Manhattan, with a B.S. in accounting and business administration, and gained an M.S. in business enterprise education and learning from Emporia Point out University.
She is at the moment assistant professor of accounting and finance at Southwestern College in Winfield, exactly where she has taught considering that 2016, and in which she was named Exemplary Trainer of the Year in 2021.
Following ending her undergraduate diploma at K-Condition, Bertholf labored for 3 a long time, 1993-96, as an accountant for Adams, Brown, Beran and Ball in Hays.
From 2005-16, she taught organization at Winfield Substantial Faculty.
While educating at Southwestern, Bertholf has also worked all through winter season and summertime breaks as an accounting intern at Galaxy Systems Inc. in Winfield.
She is a accredited CPA in the state of Kansas and presently serves on the board of directors for the Kansas Society of CPAs.
“I and members of the Government Cupboard were amazed with Jayna’s finance capabilities and her staff-oriented solution to budgeting and system,” Gering claimed.
“She has working experience inside of and outdoors of greater schooling as effectively as statewide affect from her placement on the board of Kansas Modern society of CPAs. She is a considerate, determined chief who wants to be at Bethel College.”
Bertholf is no stranger to Bethel – her son, Sam Bertholf, graduated from the school in 2018.
“In the time my son was at Bethel, I arrived to enjoy and admire the university for its family environment, devotion to citizenship and dedication to the enhancement of its college students,” she explained.
“I have a good regard for Bethel College and the impact the college has on the life of its learners,” she added. “I am honored to join the Thresher local community.”
Pursuing Allen Wedel’s retirement as VP for enterprise affairs in May well 2020, Amy Ruetten served in an interim role for one year, July 2020-July 2021. Gregg Dick, controller, has filled the interim placement given that then.
Bethel is a four-12 months liberal arts higher education established in 1887 and is the oldest Mennonite school in North America. Regarded for tutorial excellence, Bethel ranks at #15 in the Washington Every month list of “Best Bachelor’s Colleges” and #31 in U.S. Information & Globe Report, Finest Regional Colleges Midwest, equally for 2021-22. Bethel was the only Kansas college or university or college picked for the American Affiliation of College or university & Universities’ 2021 Institute on Real truth, Racial Therapeutic and Transformation, and has been named a TRHT Campus Centre. For extra data, see www.bethelks.edu
