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Frederick Community College

School Overview:

School Notes:

• Frederick Community College was founded in 1957, offering evening classes to 77 students in borrowed quarters at Frederick High School. Soon after, classes were moved to a separate facility on North Market Street, in downtown Frederick. The College occupied its present 100-acre campus in 1970, on the outskirts of the city. There are ten buildings on campus and several satellite locations. The College provides transfer, career, continuing education, and customized training programs to over 16,000 students annually. It subscribes to an open door admissions policy. FCC's character as a Learning College is represented by its Vision Statement, “Student Learning First.”
• Frederick Community College awards associate in arts, associate of arts in teaching, associate in applied science, and associate in science degrees, as well as certificates and letters of recognition, in more than 50 fields of study. In the Fall 2003 semester, the College's FTE enrollment was 1,330. Over the past five years, FTE enrollment has increased 20% and full-time enrollment has increased 31%. Fifty-eight percent of students are in transfer programs.
• Located in the foothills of Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, FCC's beautiful campus continues to grow. At present it encompasses an Arts & Student Center that includes a cafeteria, art gallery, bookstore, music and art classrooms, and a 400-seat theater; a Library Building with language, video, and allied health laboratories; the Field House, gymnasium, and playing fields; three classroom buildings with faculty offices and administrative space in addition to science, mathematics, and computer laboratories; a lecture hall; a new Conference Center; and a Children's Center. At the present time, planning is underway for a new building to house an expanded student center, classroom, and office space.
• Profile last updated: 07/30/2009.

In the News:

• FCC softball starts year with only 10 players (Gazette.net)
  posted on March 18, 2010 at 09:48:37 am
  First-year head coach Andy Taylor is tapping into the county's athletic talent pool as he looks to rebuild the Frederick Community College softball team.
• Frederick Community College baseball cranks out hits, runs (New Market Gazette)
  posted on March 18, 2010 at 09:38:33 am
  In the middle of the fifth inning of the back half of Tuesday's doubleheader with visiting Massachusetts' North Essex Community College, the Frederick Community College baseball team emptied out of the dugout with an 18-0 slaughter rule victory.
• Frederick County faces $24.6M budget shortfall (Frederick Gazette)
  posted on March 18, 2010 at 09:22:30 am
  Dark clouds continue to hang over Frederick County government as its leaders struggle to eliminate budget shortfalls that threaten to impede how the county will operate over the next year.
• Fifteen students advance to 3rd annual spelling bee final (Frederick Gazette)
  posted on March 18, 2010 at 09:21:56 am
  John Nalley, 10, a fifth-grader at North Frederick Elementary (left), and Jacob Manley, 11, a seventh-grader at Monocacy Middle School, await the next round of spelling durxzing a qualifying bee for the 3rd annual Frederick County Spelling Bee. Jacob won the bee, held Saturday morning at C. Burr Artz Public Library in Frederick, and John was a finalist (other finalists are pictured below).Three ...
• Cougars baseball off to a hot start (The Frederick News-Post)
  posted on March 17, 2010 at 06:06:17 am
  <BRWhen Frederick Community College baseball coach Rodney Bennett assembled this year's schedule, he loaded up a slew of home games, most of which were against non-Maryland JuCo opponents <br<BRThe schedule also included a weeklong road trip to Cocoa Beach, Fla , for a series of games against non-conference foes

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