College Celebrates “Grand re-opening”
The public attended an open house event at Yavapai College’s Career and Technical Education Center (CTEC) at the Prescott airport on Saturday, October 10. The open house was intended to celebrate CTEC and learn more about the facility’s recent renovations and the valuable programs it offers. A brief program of welcome and remarks about the project was given to those in attendance.
The CTEC Campus is enclosed by a 108,000 square foot building, which sits on an eight-acre site. It houses 12 programs and the Yavapai College Rural Center for Entrepreneurship.
The $5.2 million renovation accomplished the following:
Added four new classrooms
Expanded space and labs for several programs
Incorporated 10,000 square feet of storage space
Enlarged the student computer commons
Created two computer labs
Replaced aging overhead lights with energy efficient LED lights
Added noise abatement features.
Programs offered through CTEC include Electronic Technology, Gunsmithing, Welding, Industrial Machine Mechanic, and Applied Pre-Engineering. The College reports that technical education is one of Yavapai College’s fastest growing offerings and prepares students for well-paying careers while helping to boost the local economy.
Blatant unfairness. None of the programs offered at CTEC today are available to High School students in Sedona and the Verde Valley. Almost all of them are available to High School students on the West side of the County. The unfairness of this situation has existed now for about 8 years, when the College administration closed down the development of the Northern Arizona Regional Skills Center on the Verde Campus and moved most, if not all, CTE training to the Prescott side of Yavapai County.