A must read for Yavapai citizens interested in the College and its future
The recent edition of “Prescott Living Magazine” provides an in-depth interview of Yavapai Community College President Lisa Rhine. It should be a must read for anyone in Yavapai County interested in the leader of its Community College and the College’s future.
The entire article can be found online by clicking here.
The interview, conducted and then written by Mr. Ray Newton, explores Dr. Rhine’s early childhood, her educational achievements, and her vision of the future for Yavapai Community College. As Mr. Newton points out, Dr. Rhine represents a major philosophical shift about the role of higher education in a dynamically changing social and economic marketplace.
Dr. Rhine explained in the article that “We’ve a new view of how post-secondary education should be structured to meet personal and societal needs. We’re putting that vision into place at Yavapai College. Classes and curricula now fit the needs of students instead of making students fit what for years have been academic policies based on centuries-old tradition.”
Aside from philosophy and expansive information about the College, the article provides some back-grounding that most readers should find fun and interesting. For example, did you know that Dr. Rhine was nominated to dance for the Dancing with the Stars fundraiser for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Northern Arizona? A charity event. This caused her and her husband to sign up for dance lessons. Dr. Rhine says they now “do Latin dances — the bachata and salsa — several times a week, and we love it.”
The grape harvest on the Verde Campus of Yavapai Community College has continued since August 3 when volunteers and staff collected three tons of grapes in about four hours of picking. Grapes have been picked since then when ripe on a variety of days.
Covid-19 will cause a loss of from $800,000 to $1 million dollars in revenue from the Yavapai Community College residence halls located on the Prescott Campus. One of the reasons for the loss is that there apparently will not be any athletes occupying the residence facilities in the fall. It is estimated that athletes take up about 60% of the residence hall space.
Yavapai Community College is trying out a new computer app that is designed to help it identify and trace persons in the college community who may have become infected with Covid-19. The idea is to encourage the Community College community to self-screen. The app is described as having the goal of creating “a culture of awareness and social responsibility. It also helps to scale the availability of care providers by reducing the volume of worried students and employees returning to campus.”
The Maricopa Community College Governing Board has decided to terminate the search for a new district chancellor, according to a story by Emily Wilder in the Arizona Republic of August 14, 2020. Officials told Ms. Wilder that the Board will meet to plan and establish criteria and committees for the new search in the coming weeks.
The Yavapai Community College Foundation was recently made aware that its third-party vendor, Blackbaud, who stores alumni and donor data, “discovered and stopped a ransomware attack, but not before some of its data was exposed.”