Facilities Master Plan - 2012 - Chesapeake College

Chesapeake College January 2012 Facilities Master Plan UpdateSTATE-FUNDED FTE ENROLLMENT (FY 2007 – FY 2011)Fiscal Year2007 2008 2009 2010 2011Credit FTE 1422 1473 1550 1730 1751Non-Credit FTE 571 650 885 849 859Total FTE 1993 2123 2435 2579 2610Non-Credit %29% 31% 36% 33% 33%OFF-CAMPUS PROGRAMSChesapeake College provides credit and non-credit instruction at many locations throughout its five-county servicearea. Many of the sites are used for evening instruction, particularly area high schools. Memorial Hospital, in Easton(Talbot County), allows the College space to provide programming in Allied Health. The Cambridge Center, indowntown Cambridge (Dorchester County), is a College facility that offers credit and non-credit programs throughoutthe week and on weekends. The strategic location of the Cambridge Center ensures that academic programs areavailable to citizens in the southernmost region of the College’s service area. Continuing Education courses areoffered at over thirty off-campus sites throughout Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s, and Talbot counties.ENROLLMENTSHISTORICAL TRENDSA preliminary examination of the table below, which shows fall credit headcount enrollment trends for studentsattending Chesapeake College during the past ten years reflect a steady 3.1% average annual growth rate for totalheadcount students, with minor downward fluctuations occurring only in fall 2005, resulting in a ten-year change of35.2%.More importantly, the ratio of full-time to part-time students has changed substantially over the ten year period. Theannual growth rate for full-time students has outpaced that of part-time students. In the fall of 2000, 28% ofChesapeake’s students were classified as full-time. In 2010, 38% of the students were full-time. The average annualgrowth rate for full-time students over that time is slightly more than double the growth rate of part-time students.3-6