Tag: Coconino Community College
Education Spotlight — CCC to receive up to $4 million to attract male high school students to higher education. See more local, state and national education news here
FLAGSTAFF — Coconino Community College has received the largest donation in the college’s history to attract male high school students to higher education.
A private donor has offered the college $1 million per year for four years to achieve the goal.
“This transformational gift will allow us to blaze a new path forward and open the doors of higher education for students who may not have been considering going to college,” said Dr. Eric Heiser, President of CCC. “With the resources that this gift will provide, we will be able to focus specifically on those male students who have not re-engaged with community college since the onset of the pandemic.”
Dianna Sanchez, Chief Development Officer for the CCC Foundation, said, “The magnitude of this gift is truly unprecedented for CCC. As the largest gift in the Foundation’s history, it will provide the necessary resources to vastly increase our male students’ chances for success in higher education, degree attainment and employment.”
Education Spotlight — Page Public Library wins 2023 Best Small Library in America Award. See more local, state and national education news here
Page Public Library has been named Library Journal’s 2023 Best Small Library in America. The prestigious annual award, sponsored by Ingram Content Group, was created in 2005 to recognize the exemplary work of libraries serving populations under 25,000.
The Library Journal’s announcement of the award, released last week, cited the library’s “sustaining work” as a “lifeline” for the City of Page, “serving adults, students, and businesses in creative and critical ways.”
Education Spotlight — NAU welcomes back Lumberjacks! See more local, state and national education news here
President Cruz Rivera welcomed students to campus in his annual first-day-of-class video message (Aug. 28), and although Monday was the first day of school at NAU throughout Arizona and online, the Flagstaff campus has been humming with activity for a week as students moved into residence halls, got to know their classmates at Welcome Week activities, went to their first sporting events and donned blue and gold T-shirts for the Class of 2027’s Letters photo. It’s an especially exciting time at NAU, as the implementation of Access2Excellence has contributed to the most diverse, most accomplished and most Arizonan class NAU has ever welcomed. Take a look at the numbers for this class of Lumberjacks and find yourself and your friends in photos.
Education Spotlight — (CCC) Honoring our Past by Focusing on our Future. See more local, state and national education news here
By Flagstaff Business News My family and I have been so warmly welcomed to our new home in Coconino County, and I have been busy in my new role as the sixth president of Coconino Community College. My priority upon assuming the post was to embark on a wide-ranging tour of the communities served by […]
Education Spotlight — CCC Comet Promise helps students Start Small and Go Big. See more local, state and national education news here
FLAGSTAFF — The scenario is all too common: Some students struggling to make ends meet and who qualify for federal financial aid still don’t quite have the funds to completely cover the cost of their tuition. To those students, such a barrier is hard, if not impossible, to overcome.
Coconino Community College makes those students a promise: The college will cover the difference.
The Comet Promise program helps eligible students pay for their education by covering the cost of tuition when federal grants fall short. The program aims at helping remove economic barriers to offer a pathway for CCC students to complete their certificate or degree.
“We know that many of our students are working hard just to make ends meet,” said CCC President Eric Heiser, Ph.D. “We don’t ever want the cost of tuition to keep a student from embarking on the life-changing opportunities that a higher education can provide. If you’re all-in on the work that it takes to get the degree or certificate, we’re all-in on removing as many barriers as we can to help you be successful.”
Education Spotlight — Fredonia-Moccasin Unified School District receives $500,000 matching grant to build teacherage. See more local, state and national education news here
A teacherage is defined as “the residence of a teacher, when provided by the teacher’s school.” Some school districts have recently received funding for their own teacherages, including Page Unified School District, Prescott Unified School District and Sedona- Creek Unified School District. In addition, Fredonia-Moccasin Unified School District has applied for, and received approval for, a $500,000 matching grant to build their own teacherage.
Education Spotlight — CCC&Y, school partners, to present ‘Community Healing Change — Training, Meal & Discussion’ in recognition of April as Child Abuse Prevention Month. See more local, state and national education news here
The Coconino Coalition for Children & Youth — in partnership with Fredonia Elementary School, Puente de Hozho in Flagstaff and the Page Unified School District — will present the training series “Community Healing Change — Training, Meal & Discussion” in recognition of April as Child Abuse Prevention Month.
You can register to attend the live viewing parties where food, discussion and prizes are available.
The Fredonia training will be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Monday, April 17. Register with Jeanne Crookston: jeanne@fredonia.org
The Puente de Hozho training (English and Spanish-language flyers) will be held from 5 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 18. Register with Kimberly Robinson at krobinson0904@gmail.com
The Page training will be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 26 at the PUSD boardroom, 500 S. Navajo Drive, Page. Register with Penni Case at pcase@pageud.org
Education Spotlight — CCC first-generation student finds calling in life of the mind. See more local, state and national education news here
Coconino Community College student Justin Martinez has family members who have suffered from depression their entire lives.
“I really want to help people,” he said. “Particularly men who don’t normally ask for help.”
So, Martinez, a first-generation college student, decided to study Psychology at CCC, and as a CCC2NAU student, he plans to continue his studies at NAU to become a licensed therapist.
Originally from New Mexico, Martinez moved as a child with his family to the Phoenix area. While he attended Thunderbird High School as a teen, he became interested in the idea of college.
“I wanted to gain skills, so I decided to explore my options with community college,” he said, adding that he really didn’t know what he wanted to do at the time, and because community college was more affordable, he felt it would be a better place for him to begin to explore what he might want to do for a career.
Education Spotlight — Page Public Library earns top rating on America’s Star Library list. See more local, state and national education news here
The Library Journal has awarded Page Public Library five stars – its highest rating – on its list of America’s Star Libraries for 2022. Only one other library in Arizona, Phoenix Public Library, has been given the top rating.
The last time Page Public Library earned five stars was 2015, when it was the only library in Arizona to achieve the rating.
The Library Journal Index of Public Library Service rates U.S. public libraries based on selected per capita output measures, including circulation, library visits, program attendance, internet computer use, public Wi-Fi sessions, electronic retrievals from online databases, and library website visits.
At the Page City Council meeting on Feb. 22, Director of Communication and Recreation Services Lynn Cormier said Page Public Library “has done phenomenal things.” She led council members and city management in recognizing library staff for their hard work in achieving the rating.
Education Spotlight — Come and meet CCC’s new president (March 3 and 8 in Flagstaff), (April 4 in Williams), (April 13 in Page). See more local, state and national education news here
Dr. Eric Heiser has scheduled Meet and Greet events throughout Coconino County in communities that CCC serves in order to listen to what matters most to the residents of those communities when it comes to what they need from their community college.
