I cannot speak to all of the vision, but a couple of elements include getting the seminary out of the business of being a landlord. One current building of BTSR has a floor devoted to dorm room housing. Another complete building provides rental apartments. Our son spend three years in one of the apartments, and in 60-year-old buildings, there is a constant maintenance challenge. BTSR is also the landlord to CBFVA and has a large dining room/reception room in Virginia Hall that is seldom used. J. Sargent Reynolds Community College is also meeting in other buildings once used by the Presbyterian School of Christian Education prior to its merger with Union Seminary.
The seminary has already entered collaborative arrangements with Virginia Commonwealth University to offer dual degrees for an M.Div/MSSW in social work. This has attracted some students. They are also working with a traditionally African-American institution, St. Paul's College. There were discussions with NC's Chowan University, but those did not lead anywhere. I'm not certain about other partnerships.
Part of the vision, as I understand it from discussions with a former trustee, is to create facilities that are more suited to a free-standing seminary. They have been in a library partnership with Union since BTSR's beginning. With the completion of the digitalization of Princeton's theological library, they will be able to have library access in a partnership with them that will not require a " bricks-and-mortar library. In addition, classrooms need to be updated to be fully electronic learning centers and oriented more toward collegial learning styles than to function as lecture halls. Additionally, the seminary wants to interface with the whole electronic learning environment that is available.
Hope that is of some help, Ed.