Current enrollment at Anoka- Ramsey Community college is alot higher than previous years. This has lead to some problems with parking for students who come on campus for classes. Many students have to walk from the Goodwill parking lot down the road, and some even farther.
The parking situation has led to more tardy students, and all over frustration among the students who arrive later in the day. Students who arrive later than 9a.m. often complain that they are the ones parking far back, or drive around for as much as twenty minutes looking for a parking spot.
One girl from ARCC stated, "I am often late to class because I don't know how much time to plan for walking to class," which seems to sum up the overall adittude students have over the situation. For other students the main concern is the weather that they have to walk through. Some say the worst days are when you have to walk through the snow, ice, or rain when you are parking so far away.
Students have been speaking up, and telling campus directors that this is unacceptable. An almost 70% ratio of the students have complained saying that the school should be doing more to solve this issue, but so far have seen no new improvements. One student even considered the possibility of covered parking ramps in the parking area to make up for the lack of space.
Overall students are annoyed and do believe the school could be doing better to solve this issue.
Imagine the parking situation as they are building a ramp! (I don't like the walk either.) You might ask V.P. Mike Seymour if more parking spaces are planned.
ReplyDeletewow, it seems to have gotten a lot worse than when I was there. I was on-campus 2007-2008, I can't believe it's gotten so bad!
ReplyDeleteoh ps, is this at the Coon Rapids campus?
ReplyDeleteI think this should definitely be published in the school newspaper.