Frederick Community College Facilities Master Plan Chapter 6 Recommendations, Campus Development 6-A-1 May, 2023 THE BASIS FOR STRATEGIC RECOMMENDATIONS Process Re-Cap Continuing from previous chapters, this section includes the synthesis of the findings of the Environmental Scan, Academic Program Review, and Needs Assessment and goes on to make recommendations for capital projects and campus development, and certain college operations. The focus of this section is highlighted in the process graphic below. The findings from the Environmental Scan and Academic Program Review were evaluated in a series of matrices which: • synthesize the impact of Environmental Scan findings on enrollment, operations, and academic programs • address the influence of six Driving Forces first described in Chapter 3, Academic Program Review, both external and internal, on existing and potential academic programs, and • develop a weighted scale of recommendations for credit and non-credit programs, existing and to-be-considered. Refer to the matrices in the following pages. The first four charts evaluate the impacts and relationships of the local, state and national labor market on and with existing and potential credit and non-credit programs. The four charts following the labor market matrices look at the same programs under the lens of the Driving Forces, relative to the ‘fit’ of each program to the each of the six driving forces. These matrices were then reviewed with the Facilities Master Plan Steering Committee in a series of workshops, out of which consensus was developed, considering the relationship of the programs with the labor market and with the Driving Forces.
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