Building a Better NOC
- Building a Better NOC – BLDG (Brainstorm, Listen, Discuss & Grow) Workshops
- Sample Building a Better NOC – Workshop Agenda
- All Campus Meeting – Spring 2022
- Feedback from sessions is available on myNOC
Select short-term projects that will be addressed in regard to Building a Better NOC listening sessions.
- NOC Tonkawa Campus Beautification (Funding should be included in budget)
- Pick up leaves, debris and acorns, and maintain on a regular basis
- Select 5-10 flower beds and plant flowers, perennials, ornamental grass.
- Develop a long-term maintenance plan.
- NOC Tonkawa Wellness Facilities
- Add a TV 55” in aerobic room to allow organized yoga, and other aerobic classes, utilizing instructional videos on the internet for students and community members. (Funding available)
- Make sure quality basketballs, volleyballs available in wellness center. (Completed)
- Extend hours of racquetball courts for students in evenings, weekends and over breaks. Develop schedule, when Campus Security are on duty. (No funding required)
- Add sand volleyball court, near tennis courts.
- Repair the lighting on the outdoors tennis courts. (Completed)
- Food Service Enid and Tonkawa (select items included but list is much more extensive)
- Meetings have already been held with Aladdin Food Service to improve offerings and service.
- Increase offerings
- Improve the snack bars, and extend service hours
- Align the online menu, with what is actually available.
- Provide a coffee shop services in the snack bars.
- Review the student meal plan structure.
- NOC Tonkawa Student Union
- Replace the two pool tables
- Recover the current pool tables and relocate to residence halls
- Discuss whether furniture can be moved in the lobby and eating areas
- Add a change machine in the entry area so students can get change for laundry
- Determine uses for Walcher Auditorium
Select long-term projects that will be addressed in regard to Building a Better NOC listening sessions. Some projects have already identified funding sources, and others will be added to the more comprehensive BBNOC capital campaign plan that is being developed Summer 2022.
- NOC Tonkawa Library Transformation to Pickens Learning Commons (Funding identified)
- Student Learning Commons
- Weed out older books/journals/resources
- Update furniture for dispersed study areas
- Update all the technology in the current library area, CEC has updated technology due to external funding.
- Add massive mural on Eastern wall, and additional art on semi-permanent loan from donor.
- Reduce the front desk area.
- Review whether library can be open on weekend? With or without food service.
- Update the mini-kitchen to provide student coffee and snack area.
- Community access on campus for both NOC Enid and NOC Tonkawa.
- NOC Enid Elevating Opportunities for the Enid Community (Secure external funding)
- Elevating Opportunities for Enid Community
- Replacing elevators to provide better access to many floors in historic buildings on the Enid Campus.
- NOC Tonkawa Wellness Facilities
- Capital improvements – Includes updating the Wellness Center & other wellness facilities (Secure external funding)
- Wellness Center
- Replace the walking track in Wellness Center (est. $150,000)
- Replace considerable amount of exercise equipment and weights.
- Review the open space to determine best use of space.
- Update the technology in the facility and add back large-screen TVs near exercise equipment.
- Review adding a bike storage and bike repair area for 12 college-owned bikes. (est. $23,000)
- Add equipment storage area for inside and outside sports equipment
- Replace the carpet in the classroom. (est. $10,000)
- Update the restrooms/locker rooms.
- Review the condition of the flooring in the aerobic room.
- Researching ownership through Kay County Clerk’s Office of land near campus for two-mile walking trail.
- Several 5K paths have been identified that include utilizing the two-mile walking trail.
- Researched the cost to repair and paint the tennis courts. ($70,000 minimum)
- Repair and paint set of two tennis courts.
- Replace nets and purchase equipment.
- Repair place two tennis courts with pickleball courts.
- Purchase semi-portable nets and equipment.
- Develop a schedule for intramurals for 2022-23, including some single day events.
- Repair and paint set of two tennis courts.
- NOC Enid Wellness Center Facilities (est. $2,000,000) (Secure external funding)
- This has been on the NOC Master Plan for several years.
- Make available to the community, especially as the East end of Enid (where college is located) is economically disadvantaged.
- Include walking track, exercise equipment, weight equipment, aerobic room, restrooms/locker rooms, open area for flexible programming.
- Develop initial Phase One plans. (Secure external funding)
- Increase student workforce experience opportunities at NOC
- Increase internship/work opportunities at the NOC Sheep Center
- Sheep Center provides high level experience in the sheep production field. Ability to work with a purebred operation.
- Identify workplace opportunities for the students in Process Technology and Wind Power.
- Will mainly focus on hands-on experience in the P-Tech Lab that is being remodeled. (Grant funded)
- Increase the internship opportunities for Business Students
- The Experiment in Entrepreneurship in Northern Oklahoma is a proposal to provide students with true experiences in sales, marketing, inventory management, business management, book keeping, and customer service.
- Experiment in Entrepreneurship in Northern Oklahoma
- The project will provide true employment experience in a business enterprise that is run almost completely by students. This enterprise will become a model of innovative retail in the struggling town of Tonkawa, OK. The plan is for it to become a model for other colleges to follow.
- Develop extensive plan to grow student engagement on campus
- Develop strategies to overcome the financial constraints of adding new sports to NOC Tonkawa and Enid.
- Look to identify sustaining funds for wrestling at NOC Tonkawa
- This has recently gone through an extensive vetting process, including the development of a new application process with detailed spreadsheet to look at expenses and revenues.
- Look to identify sustaining funds for women’s soccer at NOC Enid
- This has recently gone through an extensive vetting process, including the development of a new application process with detailed spreadsheet to look at expenses and revenues.
- Look to identify sustaining funds for wrestling at NOC Tonkawa
- Increase internship/work opportunities at the NOC Sheep Center
- Wellness Center
- Capital improvements – Includes updating the Wellness Center & other wellness facilities (Secure external funding)
- Student Learning Commons