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• ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION—OCTOBER 17, 2011 5 undergraduate students to as many as 3,500. However, the largest opportunity for growth is in the adult graduate program area. Kathleen Nelson, Senior Vice President of Finance & Administration, Bethel University, explained that more and more students participate in on-line programs and they have no physical presence on campus. Also, a lot of their adult students attend on a part-time basis. Dean Rodeheaver explained that the issues identified include: - Critical shortage of classroom, laboratory, and office space (major shortage in the sciences). As a result, offices have been placed in areas where they probably shouldn't be. - Enrollment increases - Integration and organization - Quality education environment - Identity of the Bethel education experience and how to deliver that intentionally Dean Rodeheaver explained the central piece to this process is the Arden Hills campus and the question is how to bring all these pieces together in a way that provides a good experience for students. The seminary students consider the seminary to be a separate institute from the university so they hope to pull the campus together to a more integrated experience. Dean Rodeheaver stated the last piece of this process involves a series of spaces outside the campus itself, such as the Bethel office complex, the former county library on County Road E2, • the regional education center, Fountain Terrace apartments, and whether or not the Red Fox Road location should continue to be leased for classrooms. One of the issues driving this review by Bethel is the highway projects that will be impacting the area for the next several years; this is of particular concern for the Red Fox Road location. The Bethel office complex is not easy to get to and will be even more difficult to reach over the next five years. Consequently, they need to consider how they will find space on the campus itself to move the uses of the Bethel office building and the Red Fox Road location back onto campus. Dean Rodeheaver stated that it is their understanding that Arden Hills is looking for bike and pedestrian paths which they are open to and will build into their Master Plan. Also, based on discussions with the City Planner, they know that there are storm water issues they need to pay attention to and that the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) needs to be involved in some of the issues they will be addressing. As a part of the Master Plan to be proposed, they will be recommending that the Bethel office complex on County Road F no longer be used and that everyone currently working in that building be moved either to a regional center or to the Arden Hills campus. As far as the former county library site, the driving force is that Bethel has a serious space issue so they need to use that property for something. He asked for Council feedback on parameters for that site. Councilmembers Homes and Holden both commented that the former library property is zoned Rl, Residential. Dean Rodeheaver stated they would also like the Council's help, along with the DNR, on making a more visible link between the campus and Valentine Lake as the view from Bethel to the lake is