Not yet ready to forecast the number of students who will be needed to fill the seats once the facility is constructed
Dr. Perey addressing the Sedona City Council.
When they addressed the Sedona City Council on July 23, Verde Valley Campus Executive Dean Dr. James Perey and Yavapai Community College President Dr. Lisa Rhine emphasized that the new Career and Technical Education Center must be flexible. President Rhine said that “we want to make sure that we build the space so it is flexible so that if we need to change course; if we saturate a market, we can change course and offer different programming in career and technology so we can support whatever is emerging at that time. We are trying to be smarter and create and develop the facility so that we can be responsive to student needs.”
Perey emphasized that the College must make sure it meets current needs in building the new facility but is always looking into the future. “What will the workforce potentially look like in ten years,” he asked. The facility needs to be one that we can “ramp up and down fast depending on what that exact need is.”
Neither Dr. Rhine nor Executive Dean Perey were ready to estimate the number of students that would be needed for the new facility once it is completed and in operation.