Frederick Community College Facilities Master Plan Chapter 4 Needs Assessment 4-62 May 12, 2023 Most of FCC’s Continuing Education (noncredit) programs and courses are housed in either the Conference Center (Building E) on the main campus or in the Monroe Center. There is existing and future detailed and unique need to augment the Monroe Center’s career and technical training/learning environments with expanded facilities. Such facilities should be highly flexible and adaptable building systems shop™ type learning modules which are self-contained combined learning and learning support components composed of a learning studio, shop floor, material storage and tool storage areas. These learning modules are designed to provide environments uniquely conducive to acquiring procedural knowledge distinctive of career and technical education (CTE). Consideration should be given to clean technology as a complement dirty technology currently at Monroe. Needs Assessment Conclusion Needs assessment is the process of estimating the needed supply of academic, academic support and other support space given projected demands of: 1) FCC Mission, 2) FCC Strategic Plan, 3) P.P.A.S., pronounced “pass” (Programs, People, Activities and Stuff) TM who or what must be accommodated, and 4) the need for improvement of operations and services. Thus, needs assessment begins the transitioning from the language of academic assessment and academic planning to the language of facilities planning and master planning. Data leading up to and including the quantitative and qualitative needs establishes the necessity for renovated and/or additional facilities at Frederick Community College to meet its present and future requirements for space and programs. Potential strategies for meeting these identified requirements are addressed, in physical terms, in the impending chapters. Frederick Community College’s response to needs for space and programs manifests itself in a series of projects that will culminate in an orderly long-term physical development of FCC’s campus community. Priorities and sequencing of specific projects that allow for integration of this Facilities Master Plan into the College’s Capital Improvement Program (CIP) and related financial planning required to implement this Plan will be presented in a later chapter. The next chapter contains evaluations of buildings and other campus site infrastructure to determine their suitability to support existing and future programs. These evaluations address needs relative to condition of buildings and other infrastructure.
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