Verde credit hours hold steady; Community College overall down 3.3% from a year earlier
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.”)