Page 10 - 2014 DGB Annual Report

CULTURAL ENRICHMENT
The quality of life in the communities served by Yavapai College is enriched by the access that the institution provides to cultural events. To that end, the College’s calendar is loaded with cultural opportunities in the areas of the performing arts, athletics, music and art.
Between January 1 and November
24 2014, the Performing Arts Center at Yavapai College’s Prescott campus recorded attendance of 11,947
for presentations including live concerts, dance productions, comedy performances and dramatic historical re-creationists.
The Performing Arts Center also presented high-definition simulcast productions from New York’s Metropolitan Opera, London’s National Theatre and Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet. The venue also hosted presentations by the College’s own music department, the Phoenix Symphony, the Prescott POPS, the Prescott Film Festival, and the Arizona Cowboy Poets Gathering.
Yavapai College continued to present productions to the Verde Valley campus in Clarkdale. This year, the T.S. Monk Jazz Trio and Theodore Roosevelt performed on the Clarkdale campus to well-attended audiences.
Phase 4 of Yavapai College’s popular Sculpture Garden became a reality in 2014 thanks to a generous donation from the Yavapai Prescott Indian Tribe.
The Children’s Matinee series at the Performing Arts Center this fall, in which local school students were brought in to see the Theodore Roosevelt and Let’s Go Science presentations, logged 395 and 1,200 in attendance respectively.
The Art Galleries at Yavapai College, located on both the Prescott and Verde Valley campuses, tallied a combined estimated attendance of 3,250 between January 1 and November 15, covering 19 exhibitions of artwork from students to faculty to local amateur and professional artists.
This year’s lecture and film series, “The First World War Symposium: A series of Interdisciplinary Lectures Presented by the Faculty of Yavapai College,” was held on both the Verde Valley and Prescott campuses in November. The symposium drew 786 attendees at both campuses.
Yavapai College athletics offered 12 home games of soccer, 11 home games of volleyball, and 17 home games of volleyball, with an estimated combined attendance of 7,500. Yavapai College partnered with the City of Prescott
and the Town of Prescott Valley to
host the 2014 National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division I Men’s Soccer National Championship tournament, which saw an estimated 14,000 attendees.
... the College’s calendar is loaded with cultural opportunities ...
2000
Grand Opening for the Sedona Center.
County voters pass a $69.5 million bond for Yavapai College.
2001
Regional Skills Center approved for Yavapai College Verde Valley Campus to cost $3.1 million.
2003
The Soccer Team wins its 5th National Championship. Tuition rises to $38 per credit hour.
2005 2006
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Grand Opening of the Library and Computer Commons on the Prescott Campus.
The Community Learning Commons is dedicated on
the Verde Valley Campus.
Mike Pantalione, Head Soccer Coach, is elected to the NJCAA Soccer Hall of Fame.
Tuition increases to $45 per credit hour.