Only nine classes offered at Verde Campus; none at Sedona Center | Four classes show enrollment of five or fewer students | Reasons might be: Online focus? Poor marketing? Historical underdevelopment? Resignation of Dean Redd? Firing of Sedona Culinary Director without summer plans? Other?
The face-to-face summer session enrollment at the Verde Valley Campus and Sedona Center for credit courses shows a disappointing number being offered and a similar disappointing response to enrolling in several of them. That is what the Blog derived when examining the Community College registration data on the first day of classes, June 6.
One reason for low enrollment is the lack of face-to-face courses being offered. This year the Community College offered only nine classes. All were based on the Verde Campus. No classes were offered at the Sedona Center.
Registration data checked on the first day of the summer session also showed that in four of the nine classes being offered there were five or fewer students registered.
There are many possible explanations for this situation. Maybe the lower registration has to do with the Community College focusing on offering over 130 classes on-line. Or, possibly it reflects the failure of over 50 years in poor development of the Community College on the east side of the County? Or, poor marketing skills when it comes to the Verde Valley? Or, that Campus Dean Dr. Tina Redd resigned in March? Or, poor planning associated with the decision to terminate Sedona Center Director of its Culinary Arts program and having no direction for the summer?
Whatever the reason, the summer session for face-to-face credit classes at Yavapai Community College on the east side of Yavapai County does not look very strong.
