Yvonnne Gonzalez reported in the February 8 Verde Independent on a new program initiated by the Cottonwood Oak Creek School District to help students talk about college and career paths early in their education. The first batch of 85 eighth-grade students toured the Verde campus to learn how they need to be prepared for college. The complete story by Ms. Gonzalez can be found in the Verde Independent by clicking here.
Residents surrounding the Verde campus should know that the campus weight room has weight machines, free weights, cardio equipment, and a weight room staff who are friendly and ready to help you with your New Year’s Resolution workouts.
A resident may purchase an individual pass at the Verde campus Business Office in Building I. A resident may also purchase a $50 Spring 2015 Semester Pass for Jan 12, 2015 to May 4, 2015. A monthly pass can be purchased for Spring 2015 for $15.
The weight room is open Monday-Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. and evenings Monday-Thursday, 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
For additional information, please email Teresa.Schwickerath@yc.edu or call 634-6575.
The new Yavapai-Apache Transit system has added the Verde campus in Clarkdale as a stop on its route.
The northbound route, as reported by the College, starts on the reservation at the YAN Medical Clinic and ends at the tribal community in Clarkdale. The southbound shuttle back to Camp Verde follows the same route in reverse. The YAT links into the Cottonwood Area Transit (CAT) system and Verde Lynx for those going on to the Sedona area. In Camp Verde, it links to Beaver Creek’s volunteer bus program. The system operates Monday through Friday, but not on tribal holidays.
For more information, please contact Dianna Bonnaha, Yavapai-Apache transit manager, at (928) 649-7129. The full story of the addition of the bus system to the Verde campus can be found by clicking here.
Yvonne Gonzales, of the Verde Independent, reported on December 2, 2014 that the University of Arizona is planning a future Arizona veterinary extension campus on a piece of land along SR 260 in Camp Verde. The College intends to locate the facility adjacent the wildlife animal park on land donated by Verde Valley rancher Andy Groseta.
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Dean Shane Burgess told Ms. Gonzales that the University needed “to work out curriculum details, but we absolutely know it’ll be a home base area for the medical education program in that part of the state.”
Facility a decade away: Although the new facility is at least a decade down the road, Burgess said the program will be fully implemented by August 2016. Burgess also said that students can start looking into enrolling in January 2015 with the program operating out of existing facilities in the first year, with students likely be up at the Verde campus in August of 2018.
Burgess told Ms. Gonzales that the University will work with schools such as Yavapai Community College and, in Yuma, Arizona Western Community College to either directly offer programming, or share resources. Douglas, Yuma and Pinal County will also host extension programs. A class of about 100 students, will cycle through the facilities at the various locations during their course of study.
Community College role: Burgess also said that: “We’ll work with the community college to help the state’s wine industry grow.” He wants to help winegrowers from soil to retail. According to Burgess, Yavapai Community College could also provide the bridge for students to go from a two-year degree and into undergraduate programs that expand on their field of study.
Yavapai Community College Verde campus Dean James Perey told Ms. Gonzales that the college wants to align curriculum to whatever programming ends up coming from the University of Arizona. He said the university’s programming will also allow the college to work toward creating a pipeline from Mingus Union High Schools agriculture curriculum, which includes large animals, greenhouse and wine grape vineyard.
Perey also told Ms. Gonzales that “. . . as we look at high school curriculum, [we will look at] how that feeds into the agriculture curriculum here at the college, and ultimately what the University of Arizona wants to do.” The complete article written by Ms. Gonzales may be accessed by clicking here.
Verde Executive Dean James Perey told the Yavapai College Advisory Committee to the Governing Board that “we still have a two-year nursing program” in the Verde Valley. Perey said that there are “no immediate plans to remove it at this time.” He also indicated in response to a question from the Chair of the Committee that the entire two-years of training could be completed in the Verde Valley.
Listeners were aware of the Dean cautiously using the phrases “no immediate plans” and “at this time.”
Perey explained that if something would happen in the future, the college would have to finish out the students on the Verde campus.
Each semester Community College administrators measure the number of students who are enrolled and the total number of credits (called credit hours) the students cumulative take. Student credit hours on the Yavapai Community College as a whole has declined from last fall by 3.3%. Because students are taking a few more classes in fall 2014 than they did a year earlier, this explains the difference between the the 4.1 percent drop in unduplicated headcount and the 3.3 percent drop in student credit hours. (See the chart “Student Credit Hours” in story below.) The Verde campus student credit hours did not show a percentage decline.
The Prescott campus showed a drop of 1,167 student credit hours even though the Administration of Justice program was moved to that campus. Sedona shows a 96% drop, which was a result of the closing the digital film school. (See chart in story below entitled “Student Credit Hours.”)
There will be a holiday ceramics sale on the Verde campus on Thursday and Friday, December 4th and 5th. The sale will take place from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day in room 106. The Verde campus is located at 601 Black Hills Drive, Clarkdale.
New booklet with ideas for developing Verde campus publishedA new booklet containing ideas about the future development of the Verde campus has been created. It contains ideas gathered over a period of years from persons familiar with community college education and possess knowledge of the Verde campus. The Blog, which authored the booklet, is continuing to seek other ideas. If you have ideas about future development of the Verde campus, please let us know about them so they can be considered for the next edition of this booklet.
You may read the booklet by clicking on the following: VISIONS FOR THE VERDE CAMPUS