College administrator reflects on “loss of continuity” of programming on Verde Campus for College for Kids
Ms. Linda Buchanan, the newest Yavapai Community College Community Education Program Director, reflected on management and a “loss of continuity” of programming on the Verde campus over the past years in a recent interview in the Verde Independent.(Click here for Verde Independent interview.)
YCC Summer 2014 ad for program on Prescott campus.
She said, for example, that the summer program called College for Kids “had been growing in offerings and enrollment, but took a hiatus in 2012 when the school’s bond-funded construction pushed operations completely off campus.” [Query: Were there no other summer facilities available for the summer College for Kids program such as Mingus High School or the Cottonwood-Oak Creek school? Or the Sedona Center?]
Although an effort was made to revive and rebuild the program following completion of construction, the management position became vacant and it took the College, according to Ms. Buchanan, “about a year before a new director came on board.” Consequently, the College for Kids program was not offered on the East side of the County this year because of the College one-year delay in filling the management position. In comparison, the program thrived on the West side of the County this summer.
The YCC has posted an excellent video explaining the College for Kids programs offered this summer on the Prescott campus. It can be found by clicking here.
Artist Jim Romberg is a Professor Emeritus from Southern Oregon University. At the University he headed the
Ceramics Department for nineteen years. He lives and maintains his studio in Sedona, and is program director for the Eagleheart Center for Art and Inquiry.
In response to increasing pressure by Verde Valley residents over Prescott based administrators concentrating almost all major cultural events on the Prescott campus, the Community College has announced it will bring a series of cultural performances to the “East Yavapai County” during the 2014-15 academic year. The first of these performances is the T.S. Monk Jr. Jazz Trio, which is scheduled to perform Friday evening, August 22 on the Verde campus. The College has said that later in the season, performances such as 
Yavap
ai Community College is sponsoring one of those rare concerts on the Verde campus on Friday, August 22 at 7 p.m. at the Maybery Pavilion with the T.S. Monk Jr. Jazz Trio. In a Community College flyer tickets for the concert were advertised at $20 and $10 dollars. In an advertisement in the Sunday, August 17 Verde Independent, readers were urged to go to