Frederick Community College Facilities Master Plan Chapter 2 Environmental Scan 2-4 May, 2023 The College has approximately 100 full-time faculty members, 330 adjunct faculty, 63 dual enrollment faculty, and 286 full-time staff and administrators. Seventeen percent of faculty identify as People of Color and twenty percent of administrative and professional staff.10 Each May, FCC holds its annual Spring Recognition and Awards Ceremony. Students are recognized for exemplary service, academic excellence, honors college, academic leadership and service, excellence in continuing education and workforce development, student leadership; and campus club and organization involvement.11 Frederick Community College formally recognizes employees for their years of service, leadership, innovation, and professional excellence.12 Frederick Community College is comprised of 19 facilities on its main campus and one facility, the Monroe Center, located at 200 Monroe Avenue:13 One facility, The Monroe Center, is located on Monroe Avenue. The average age of buildings is plus thirty years and most of the central plant equipment is almost 40 years old.14 The current deferred maintenance capital renewal is due to past efforts to fund new buildings assuming they would require less maintenance. Also, facilities renewal was directed at partial systems failures. Additionally, available funding, failing systems, regulatory or program requirements; and businesses processes have militated against scheduled improvements and a reduction in maintenance costs. The exterior facades and surrounding grounds are well maintained. Interiors belie their age. Technology infusion is in evidence throughout. The campus is challenged with a lack of surge space. The above synopsizes Frederick Community College’s circumstances. This analysis seeks to briefly and succinctly show how the external environment as reflected in data from four specific areas (i.e., demographics, education, employment and the economy). 10 ibid., p.7 11 op. cit., p.6. 12 https://www.frederick.edu/jobs-hr/policies-and-procedures/policyproceduredocuments/employee-recognition.aspx 13https://apps.frederick.edu/Flipbook/FacilitiesMasterPlan/files/assets/common/downloads/FacilitiesMasterPlan.pdf 14 ibid. p.15
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MTc2ODM1