Frederick Community College Facilities Master Plan Chapter 4 Needs Assessment 4-46 May 12, 2023 FTES is important, of prime significance is establishing a stable foundation of planning tools upon which the effectiveness and quality of instructional environments necessary for learning can be predicted. For those purposes, projections of weekly student contact hours (WSCH) are also presented. Estimates are that the total on-campus WSCH will reach 43,016 by fall 2030. Of this total, approximately 30,664 WSCH will be generated by lecture segments and approximately 12,352 are expected to occur in laboratory segments for courses offered before 5:00 p.m. Determination of program and course content ten years out is difficult at best. However, given an anticipated number of students to be enrolled, projections of weekly student contact hours generated, as well as the number of classroom and laboratory sections, general estimations of space need can be calculated. These projections of weekly student contact hours form the basis for planning for future instructional spaces. Projections of enrollments for fall 2021 through fall 2030 represent the recommendations developed by the Maryland Higher Education Commission in keeping with the pursuit of Frederick Community College’s mission through the year 2030. The table below presents an overall distribution of projected credit/contact hours for fall term 2030 in comparison with fall 2020 enrollments. The table isolates those on-campus credit hours, FTDES and weekly student contact hours expected to be generated on-campus during the day before 5:00 p.m. Current and Projected Enrollments by Headcount, Credit Hours, FTES, FTDES and WSCH While the use of static demographics may not be realistic for micro-level planning, such as individual project programming where population movement needs to be considered and planned for, macro-level analysis and estimates of future student populations often using static demographic data have shown to be a relatively reliable tool for most facilities master planning purposes. When student population movement is projected by means of comprehensive academic planning and/or expressions of institutional policy, such considerations are incorporated into space planning guidelines applications to set priorities for campus development and to compute campus-wide allowances for each category of space. In instances where such is not the case, static data for student enrollments, faculty and staff levels, and library collections are appropriately used as the basis for computing future campus-wide estimates of needed space. Full-Time Part-Time Total Credit Credit WSCH WSCH Headcount Headcount Headcount Hours FTES Hours FTDES Lecture Laboratory Fall 2020 1,719 4,037 5,756 46,607 3,107 34,016 2,268 24,298 9,788 Fall 2030 2,414 5,366 7,780 66,795 4,453 42,915 2,861 30,664 12,352 % Change 2020-2030 40.4% 32.9% 35.2% 43.3% 43.3% 26.2% 26.2% 26.2% 26.2% Average Annual Growth Rate 3.5% 2.9% 3.1% 3.7% 3.7% 2.4% 2.4% 2.4% 2.4% Data Sources: FCC Office of Planning, Assessment and Institutional Research (2020 Actual) and Maryland Higher Education Commission (2030 Projected) On-Campus Before 5:00 p.m.
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