Frederick Community College Facilities Master Plan Chapter 1 Overview of the College 1-2 May, 2023 This Overview foci are: Introduction; Role of a Community College; Student Success: More Than College Completion; Restructuring the System of Higher Education; Developing a Transcendent Built-Environment Responsive to Human Needs; Transforming A Student to Facilitate Holistic Student Success; Eight Dimensions of Wellness; Athletics, Fitness, Recreation; Health and Wellness Impact on Curriculum/Pedagogy/Learning; Mission, Vision, Values; Community Outreach; Strategic Directions; Governance and Organization; Students, Faculty, and Staff; Learning, Instruction, Accreditation; Main Campus; and Extension Centers. The Overview is intended to orient the reader to Frederick Community College (FCC) at the global, national, regional, state, local and campus levels. United States postsecondary education is ever evolving and is a complex enterprise occurring real-time in a dynamic environment. The FCC facility master planning process was undertaken during the COVID-19 pandemic; a college presidential search; a war oversees; social unrest within the United States; a concomitant drop in college attendance nationally; a loss of jobs in industries paying the lowest wages; and 59 percent loss of low-paying jobs between February 2020 to October 2021 while the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington combined statistical area (CSA) that impacts and is impacted by Frederick County was becoming the third largest CSA in America.2 Against this backdrop, Frederick Community College implemented course delivery formats for entirely online courses where students complete work on their time but meet expected deadlines; structured remote courses with specific class times; hybrid remote courses online with periodic in-person class time; and in-person courses in a physical space on campus, at the Monroe Center or in a location 2 https://www.newgeography.com/content/007051-combinedstatistical-areas-lead-continuing-dispersion-2010-2020 3 <a href="http://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/1873/Commun off-campus appropriate for the course objectives. Additionally, the FCC Testing Center leveraged the Zoom platform to proctor placement and FCC course exams for students. Additionally, FCC adopted and implemented Navigate, which allows students and academic and administrative offices to communicate with students and keep them engaged; and it offers advisors, tutors, and other support staff a comprehensive range of student information to assist in student success and support. In terms of community outreach and impact the FCC partnered with Frederick County Government and others to ensure consistent and coordinated messaging during COVID-19 via a Joint Information Center (JIC). This led to FCC hosting a county vaccination site in the FCC gymnasium that became a state vaccination site before closing in May 2021. Role of a Community College “The distinctive contribution of community colleges to American higher education is their adaptive, transmutable mission. They represent education's local, front-line interface with society. To fulfill this transmutable mission, comprehensive community colleges provide (1) general and liberal education, (2) vocational and technical education, (3) adult, continuing, and community education, (4) developmental, remedial, and collegepreparatory education, and (5) counseling, placement, and student development services.”3 The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) serves as a national voice and advocacy for the community college mission. The AACC mission statement is “Building a Nation of Learners by Advancing America’s Community Colleges.”4 America’s first public ity-Colleges.html">Community Colleges - The History of Community Colleges, The junior college and the research university., The Community College Mission</a> 4 https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED451865.pdf
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