![Nelson Hall Resident Director Kendall Engelke Davis looks over to see what Resident Assistant Chloe Smith paints. For her weekly 8 p.m. staff development meeting in Nelson Shack April 16, Engelke Davis held a watercolor event to relieve stress. “It’s a unique opportunity to get to really invest and be in [RAs’] lives,” Engelke Davis said, “which I consider such a privilege.”](http://thebuclarion.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/041624_KendallEngelkeDavis_Holland_05-1200x800.jpg)
By Molly Wilson
The Clarion looked through the ‘Form 990’ tax document and ‘Bethel University and Affiliates, Consolidated Financial Statements and Supplementary Information Years Ended May 31, 2021 and 2020’ and talked to campus employees including Vice President of Finance Amy Blaz to get a sense of where tuition dollars go. Liz Miller denied the Clarion’s request for information on the Health Counseling Services spending. The Clarion does not know precisely how much is allocated to specific funds. All information listed below is drawn from 2019 documents unless explicitly stated otherwise.
*This tuition rate does not include the $150 student activity fee.
Alumni spent $15 million in 2019 to pay for the new Nelson-Larson Science Center, Sodexo was paid almost $5 million from board costs and Bethel received nearly $90 million from traditional undergraduate tuition, all three years ago at the start of an unpredictable pandemic.