Frederick Community College Facilities Master Plan Chapter 2 Environmental Scan 2-28 May, 2023 FINDINGS • The Board of Trustees has charged the President with the following priorities: o Creating unity of purpose throughout the college and the community of Frederick. o Establishing a strategic vision o Connecting with community partners o Championing diversity • Executive Senior Leadership are capable across their units of operation • Executive Senior Leadership know the strengths and challenges confronting the College • Frederick Community College is a top performer in Maryland higher education • The College’s students, faculty, staff and administrators are focused on community • Frederick County and the City of Frederick value the College • External forces provide great opportunity for FCC to reach even higher heights as the demographics within the region are changing • State support is direly needed to address built environment needs that impede Frederick reaching an even larger audience and even more diverse business and industry due to its strategic location. METHODOLOGY This strategic environmental scan for Frederick Community College’s Facilities Master Plan is targeted to the institution’s leadership and decisionmakers. It was informed by the following fundamental questions: • Who supports Frederick Community College (FCC)? • What is the mission of FCC? What is a Facility Master Plan? What is an environmental scan? • When do you perform an environmental scan? • Where do you apply an environmental scan? (The market affecting FCC and the market FCC seeks to affect) • Why do you perform an environmental scan? 84https://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/environment/appro aches-and-techniques-used-for-environmentalscanning/23556 • How do you perform a FMP environmental scan? The initial answers to the above questions help limit and focus the approach and processing of the environmental scan. There are three generally recognized approaches:84 1. Systematic Approach: Under this approach, information for environmental scanning is collected systematically. Information related to markets and customers, changes in legislation and regulations that have a direct impact on an organization’s activities, government policy statements pertaining the organization’s business and industry, etc., could be collected continuous updating such information is necessary not only for strategic management but also for operational activities.
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