Morgan currently oversees programs at 109,00 square foot CTE facility at Prescott airport and has added the new 10,000 square foot facility under construction on the Verde Campus to his list of responsibilities
Yavapai Community College Dean of Career and Technical Education, John Morgan, gave an interview to News Director, Mr. Philip Catalfamo, on Yavapai Broadcasting’s “County Wide” Verde Valley television program a couple weeks ago about the future of the new CTE facility on the Verde Campus. In the program, Dean Morgan briefly outlined the origin of the new CTE facility and extensively explained how the facility will function.
Dean Morgan has been successfully overseeing CTE development since about 2007 at the 109,000 square foot Community College facility located at the Prescott airport. Rather than provide direct leadership from someone in the Verde Valley to develop the CTE programs there, the Community College has initially chosen to add oversight of the 10,000 square foot CTE building that is now being constructed on the Verde Campus to Dean Morgan’s responsibilities.
Morgan said that the Verde Valley has been asking for a CTE facility for years and that with “new leadership” the first steps in bringing CTE to the East side of the County were taken. The programs being installed in the new facility are the result of a Blue Ribbon Verde Valley panel that made a series of recommendations to the College. It appears the College is responding to most, if not all of those recommendations.
The facility will be ready for occupancy by the fall, 2021.
There was no mention of the large CTE program that was planned for the Verde Campus back in 2000 that was begun with great hope but failed miserably.
A small portion of the thirty-minute interview with Dean Morgan appears below. Go to https://myradioplace.com/, for the full interview and search for the Yavapai Community College CTE program.