College offers no explanation for surprise late announcement of the tuition free classes
In a July 29 news release, Yavapai Community College announced that it was offering several free tuition classes at its Career and Technical Education Center (CTEC), which is located at the Prescott airport. The surprise announcement came at a time when the Community College had been heavily marketing fee tuition trade skills classes only on its Verde Campus at its brand new Trade Skills Training Center. The College’s fall brochures had highlighted several free tuition classes offered at its Trade Skills Training Center facility on the Verde Campus with no mention or suggestion of similar free classes being offered at CTEC.
In the news release, the College said that “this new offer is in addition to the College’s one class free option for this fall, where all students in any program receive one class free of tuition.” Some surmise that the surprise announcement might have come because of a perceived unfair treatment of students on the West side of the County. Or, there may be other plausible reasons for the surprise announcement such as low initial enrollment or an unexpected influx of outside money. As noted above, the Community College offered no explanation for the sudden addition of the tuition free fall classes at CTEC.
The newly announced free fall semester classes include students seeking a 3D Printing and Manufacturing Certificate, Unmanned Aircraft Systems Certificate, and an Advanced Manufacturing Technology AAS Degree.
Note: The lined-out locations in the chart below are campuses or centers the College indicated classes were being taught at, however, they appear somewhat inconsistent with the Community College’s on-line registration data. Please check with the College Registrar if you are interested in any of them to determine where they are being offered.
3D Printing and Manufacturing Certificate tuition free fall classes:
- TDP 101 – Introduction to 3D Printing (3 credits) (CTEC).
- TDP 108 OR ELT 108 – 3D Printer and Operation Maintenance (3 credits) (CTEC).
- MET 200 – SolidWorks for Non-Engineers (3 credits) (only on-line).
Unmanned Aircraft Systems Certificate tuition free fall classes:
- UAS 100 – Introduction to UAS (3 credits) (CTEC and on-line).
- UAS 103 – UAS Simulations (3 credits) (CTEC and on-line).
- UAS 115 – UAS Monitor Systems (4 credits) (CTEC and on-line).
Advanced Manufacturing Technology AAS Degree tuition free fall classes:
- IPT 110 – Industrial Shop Practices (3 credits) (CTEC).
- ELT 130 – Introduction to Robotics (3 credits) (Verde, Chino, CTEC).
- CNC 101 – CNC Machine Operator (3 credits) (Verde, Chino, CTEC).
- CNC 201 – Computer Aided Programming for CNC Machining (3 credits) (CTEC and also on-line).