All offices will be closed during this time
Yavapai Community College is closed for spring break until March 16, 2020. All offices will be closed during this time.
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OER faculty training program begun February 10
Under the direction of President Lisa Rhine, Yavapai Community College has launched an aggressive program to reduce the annual book costs to a student by an estimated $1,600. The program will rely on “Open Educational Resources” materials that are proving to be as good or better in most cases than traditional textbooks. The District Governing Board received a detailed explanation of how the College is implementing the OER program at its meeting last Tuesday.
The first faculty training program began February 10 and a second is scheduled for March 30. Students using OER material will receive them on-line. Their is no cost attached to them. They can then download the material as a PDF file and place it in a binder. It permanently belongs to the student.
The OER material is flexible and can be altered by faculty using it before sending it to students in a course. This is an advantage over traditional textbooks.
A complete, detailed explanation by Dr. Rhine and Dr. Diane Ryan about OER material is contained in the video below. Dr. Ryan is a veteran in successfully developing OER material and implementing them into a College curriculum.
Smaller of the two expected to arrive this summer and experiments with it to begin at Chino Valley Center
Recall that the Yavapai Community College District Governing Board has authorized the College to spend a half million dollars to purchase futuristic 3d construction machinery. (See earlier videos and stories on the Blog about how these printers work.) The authorization was for two printers, according to officials interviewed at the Tuesday Governing Board meeting, not one.
The first printer is considered “small” and experiments with how it operates are anticipated to begin this summer at the Chino Valley Center. The larger 3d cement printer will arrive later in the year.
The first experiment will have the 3-d cement printer used to build a small manufactured home replacing one now owned by the College that is need of repair.
It appears that the initial courses on how to operate the machine will be offered at the Career and Technical Education Center that is adjacent the Prescott airport. At some point, the machines can be used to develop courses for operating them on the Verde Campus.
With these futuristic machines and curriculum, the College hopes to attract a new group of students for its construction program. It has a long-term desire to partner with a builder.
More centralized, especially for Camp Verde; idea is to see if concept works; no deal yet, only in negotiating phase
The Community College, in response to Community urging, is exploring the possibility of executing a five-year lease on a building on Highway 260 located at 600 East Curry, Camp Verde. If an agreement can be reached, the facility will be renovated to house a Career and Technical Education Center for the east side of Yavapai County. The facility has 40,000 square feet and the idea is to lease space over a five year period in three phases beginning initially with 10,000 square feet.
The location is more centralized on the east side of the County than the Verde Campus, especially for students at Camp Verde High School who are expected to attend classes at the College facility. Five years will allow the facility time to prove that this is the best location for a CTE training facility and can meet the demands of the Verde Valley population.
The College has tentatively set aside $873,000 in the coming budget to pay one year on a possible five-year lease and to make improvements so it can be used as a Career and Technical Education facility. The College will consider an outright purchase if the terms are extremely favorable. It is hoped, but not yet guaranteed, that a lease agreement can be reached. Moreover, without an outright purchase, the College would seek a lease-purchase arrangement. This is what it did when it purchased the CTE Campus on the west side of the County at the Prescott airport back in 2007.
Posted below is a six-minute video clip containing the entire conversation at the Tuesday, March 3 Governing Board meeting where the project was explained.
Applies life-saving skills learned at Verde Campus when earning Fitness Trainer/Instructor Certificate
Selena Castillo, a 22-year-old Yavapai Community College student from Cottonwood, saved her mother’s life by applying CPR skills learned at the College.
The incident occurred during a break in the Community College schedule when Selena’s mother began experiencing some health issues. Selena and her older sister, Beatrize, also a Yavapai Community College Alumna, were helping her mother manage them. Late one night, the sisters discovered their mother unconscious and breathing sporadically. Bea initially tried mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, but could not wake her.
Calling 911 for help, the dispatcher suggested doing chest compression. Selena, who had been taught the correct procedure for chest compression, then performed life-saving CPR on her mother.
The dispatcher stayed on the phone to help Selena until Emergency Medical Services arrived. When interviewed, Selena said that “I was very calm―even though it was my first-time applying CPR to a real person instead of a dummy―and that person was my mother!” The parting words from the paramedics who transported her mother to the hospital were, “You saved your mother tonight.” After a brief hospital stay, Selena’s mother went home to recover.
Selena’s SSS TRIO Academic Advisor at the Community College, Linda Evans, said, “It’s typical for students to explore their options at Yavapai College. In this case, her decision to complete our Fitness Trainer/Instructor Certificate was a life or death decision.”
Intending to graduate this semester, Selena is attending classes, working in the Verde Valley Campus weight room, and at Planet Fitness in Cottonwood.
North side of campus, close to Building L
Yavapai Community College President Lisa Rhine’s monthly “highlights” newsletter noted the installation of a new book return was installed at the Verde Valley Campus. You may read all of the Dr. Rhine’s Community College highlights for the month of March by clicking here.
Following below is the note and photo copied from the President’s “Highlights” newsletter.
Room G-106, 12:45 p.m. until 1:45 p.m., Thursday, March 5 at Verde Valley campus
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s Brown Bag Brain Buzz will host Jayana Clerk, “Speculations on Artificial Intelligence, from 12:45 p.m. until 1:45 p.m. Thursday, March 5 in Room G-106 at Yavapai College’s Verde Valley campus, 601 Black Hills Drive in Clarkdale.
Clerk taught world literature and world religions at The City University of New York. In her teachings, Clerk emphasized the emerging global reality.
Clerk earned her Doctorate at Columbia University in New York, where she specialized in literature, religions, and international studies.
Her earlier degrees were in English Literature from the University of London and from India.
Bring your brown bag or purchase lunch at the snack bar and join us at this free lunchtime forum, sponsored by Yavapai College.
For information about Osher Lifelong Learning Institute – OLLI at Sedona/Verde Valley, call Linda Shook, associate dean Sedona Center and OLLI director Sedona/Verde Valley, at 928-649-4275, email ol- lisv@yc.edu, or visit yc.edu/ollise- donaverde
Regular meeting begins at 1 p.m. at the Sedona Center on Tues, March 3, 2020, Room 34
The Yavapai Community College District Governing Board will hold its monthly General Public Meeting on Tuesday, March 3, 1:00 P.M. The meeting will be held at the Sedona Center, Room 34. Among topics listed on the agenda is one involving the potential for a hotel being constructed on College land at the Sedona Center. (The Board may also discuss the potential for a hotel on Community College land on the Verde Valley Campus.) You may view the detailed hotel report to the College in the agenda by clicking here.
The public may address the Board at the beginning of the meeting, according to the agenda published by the College. This is an opportunity for residents of Yavapai County to provide their input on any issue within the jurisdiction of the Yavapai College District Governing Board. Normally, a person is limited to speaking for three minutes.
Members of the Governing Board are not supposed to discuss or take legal action on matters raised during an Open Call to the public unless the matters are properly noticed for discussion and legal action. A citizen wishing to address the Board should complete a “Request to Speak” form, and give it to the Recording Secretary and be prepared to limit his or her remarks to the designated time (usually three minutes).
Under Arizona law, the public has a right to attend, listen, tape record or videotape these meetings. The public may not disrupt, but may speak during the call to the public at the beginning of this meeting if the call is on the agenda. See Ariz. Att’y Gen. Op. No. I78-001.
The full agenda for the afternoon meeting can be found on the Community College web site by clicking here.
Waterline to connect the trail-head restroom to Building L; second is consideration of new greenhouse
Yavapai Community College has two new projects it is working on. The first is connecting a water line from Building L to the trailhead restroom. It is currently under construction.
The second is consideration of a new teaching greenhouse to replace the one that was near Building L. The location of this new 18’ x 48’ unit is under review by the Community College.
Source: Facilities Management March 2020 Newsletter; photo copied from Management newsletter.
Program set for Friday, March 6, 2020 at 7 p.m.; College sponsored
The Glenn Miller Orchestra will play at the Sedona Performing Arts Center on Friday, March 6, at 7 p.m. The tickets for the program are advertised at $35.00. Tickets available at YCPAC [click here] or at the door the night of the show. 
The program is sponsored by Yavapai Community College.
Below is an advertisement created by the Community College for the event.
