I want to pass on some of these ideas so they hopefully make sense to someone other than just myself. In the past few years I have noticed how things sometimes work and how people want them to be changed. Bethel is on the edge. It is moving forward, but it is still balancing on what it was and what it will be. What the school is needing to push it over the edge is student support.
Students get excited about the possibility of something and then interest quickly dies out.
This doesn't happen with everything, but there are examples of when it has happened. KBCU is the most obvious of these examples. Student involvement was somewhere between medium and low my freshman year. That was the only reason I got involved. They needed someone and I volunteered with reservations.