Frederick Community College Facilities Master Plan Chapter 4 Needs Assessment 4-15 May 12, 2023 Response to COVID 19 Pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic caused many classes that normally would have been conducted in traditional in-person formats to instead be temporarily provided online or in hybrid formats. Recognizing that this situation would result in under-representing space needs of community colleges when capital improvement needs are being calculated using current space guidelines, the Maryland Higher Education Commission (MHEC) issued policy directives in 2020 and again in 2021 which provided guidance with respect to reporting of enrollment data.3 In line with this policy guidance, the focus of this utilization analysis is the fall semester of 2019. Glossary of Terms This glossary contains brief definitions of generic terms related to utilization and explanations of acronyms and abbreviations referred to in this utilization analysis. Classroom Space that is not limited to a specific subject or discipline by equipment or room configuration. Class Laboratory Space that is used primarily for formally or regularly scheduled classes that require special purpose equipment for a specific room configuration for student participation, experimentation, observation, or practice in an academic discipline. Facilities Inventory Room-by-room and building-by-building listing of assignable spaces, their primary use, their size and their capacity. Net Assignable Square Feet (NASF) NASF is the sum of all areas on all floors of a building assigned to, or available for assignment to an occupant for specific use. Excluded are spaces defined as structural, mechanical, services and circulation areas. Room Utilization A measurement of the number of hours a room is used relative to the number of hours available for use expressed as a percentage Station Occupancy The percentage of student stations or seats that were filled when rooms are in use Station Size A factor determined by dividing net assignable square feet of a space by the number of stations in that space Student Contact Hour A measure of time of scheduled interface between students and teacher that is usually expressed in terms of Weekly Student Contact Hour (WSCH), which is the number of hours per week of required interface. Note: This statistic is used in this document for facilities planning purposes only, and the calculation may differ from WSCH computed for budgetary or other reporting purposes. Time Utilization Room use by day, by time of day Use Codes Space use codes represent the recommended central or core concepts for classifying the assignable space, by use, within campus facilities. Sometimes referred to as HEGIS or FICM codes. Weekly Room Hours (WRH) Number of hours each week that a classroom or class laboratory is used for regularly scheduled classes 3 Maryland Higher Education Commission, MHEC Directive on Fall 2020 S-6 Data Reporting, November 6, 2020 and MHEC Directive on Fall 2021 S-6 Data Reporting, September 14, 2021.
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