Construction of $750,000 elevator for Performing Arts Center on Prescott campus begun
Photo from Governing Board agenda of February, 2014.
It was announced at the December Governing Board meeting that construction has begun on an elevator for the Performing Arts Center. Budget estimates for this project put the total cost at around $750,000 (see February 2014 proposed capital budget in February, 2014 Governing Board agenda). Over the last four years, the Community College has allocated an estimated $5 million dollars in upgrades to the Performing Arts Center on the Prescott campus. The facility is used almost entirely by Prescott and Prescott Valley residents. Most of the cost of the upgrades is being paid by Yavapai County taxpayers.
The College has submitted four new certificate courses to be offered in the Verde Valley for Faculty Curriculum Review. They are: Digital Media and Film, Culinary, Hospitality and Enology. If approved, they will go to the District Governing Board for review. If all goes well, the new programs will be offered in the fall of 2015.
Ms. Larson explained that educational opportunities that once existed in the Verde Valley have gone away. “We want in the Verde Valley what Prescott has.”
According to the College’s announcement, Verde Valley nursing students Starr Cecil from Camp Verde and Jaimy Quasula from Clarkdale were awarded the scholarships. Congratulations to these two outstanding students and the other 13. To read the College’s announcement found in the Verde Independent and see a photo of all the recipients and their names, 
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 
Ms. Ruth Wicks reminded the Yavapai Community College Governing Board at its August 12 meeting that a decade ago it offered a total of over 600 courses at facilities located on the Verde campus, Sedona Center, Camp Verde facility and Mingus Union High School. 
The trio has received rave reviews in the Hollywood Reporter, Variety, the L.A. Times, and others. There have been sold out concert hall shows across the United States, Europe, South America and the Middle East.