Fun Run, Dancing with the Stars, and Golf Classic all scheduled; Foundation creates a new Annual Fund to support athletic scholarships
Yavapai Community College has announced a series of fund raising events beginning with the Roughrider Athletics Classic Golf Classic on September 24. It will be followed by the “Fun Run” on September 26 and the “Dancing for the Stars” fundraiser on October 2. It also announced it has established a new Annual Fund to support its athletic department.
The athletic programs, all of which emanate from the Prescott Campus, annually spend an estimated $1.7 million in coaching salaries and related expenses. In addition, they provide athletes with about $650,000 in scholarship assistance from the College’s General Fund. Most of the athletes are recruited from outside Yavapai County and a several come from outside Arizona.
At the April 2020 Governing Board meeting, the issue of scholarships and out-county recruitment was raised by Third District Representative Paul Chevalier. In response to his questions, it was learned that the College is taking major steps to change how it handles athletic scholarships and recruiting. This included seeking to raise funds to support the scholarship program.
At the October 2020 Governing Board meeting, the Community College announced a five-year plan in the works to use the Foundation to support all athletic scholarships and a plan to lower out-state tuition for athletes that will allow a wider national recruiting by coaches.
Yavapai Community College has announced a new three-year pilot program for students in the Nursing, Nursing intent, Early Childhood and K-12 Education whose childcare costs may have prevented them from attending college. The Community College in cooperation with the Arizona Department of Economic Security will pay up to $725 per child, per month, in childcare expenses for qualified full-time students in these four areas of study.
On May 13, 2021, Governor Doug Ducey and DES announced Back To Work programs to help individuals transition from unemployment to a new job, and ensure those currently receiving unemployment have support available to help them in this critical step forward. With this new program, Arizona will stop taking the federal government’s supplemental pandemic unemployment benefit effective Saturday, July 10. Arizona will also provide support for unemployed individuals seeking to upskill their careers with adult education programs as well as additional child care opportunities:
COMMUNITY COLLEGE NEWS RELEASE: Prescott AZ (April 17, 2021) – Yavapai College has announced that it will be offering students who are registered for credit classes ‘One Class Free’ for the fall 2021 semester. 
The Sedona Car Club is providing a $2,500 scholarship to Yavapai Community College through its Foundation for a student interested in pursuing an automotive career. The scholarship is available for students just enrolling in the College or students that are already there.
The Yavapai Community College District Governing Board had a far-ranging discussion about student athletic scholarships at its October meeting. The discussion was a part of the overall consideration of the tuition and scholarship proposal brought to it for approval by the Community College Administration.
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.
In a story in the May 22 Arizona Republic written by Rachel Leingang, Arizona State University announced that it will not send checks to students affected by the coronavirus pandemic during the spring semester. It has decided to defer its spending of nearly $32 million the federal government gave the school and spend it over the coming year. The money came from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES).
As noted in the April 11 Blog, Yavapai Community College received almost $2.4 million from the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund. The Relief Fund was authorized as part of the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, called the CARES Act.