During the end of June 2016, Arizona Western College Institute of Welding Technology students attended the SkillsUSA national conference and competition in Louisville, KY and came back as winners.
Grilled Salmon Dinner Set for September 22, 2016 Others to Follow
Please join students of the Arizona Western College Culinary Arts Program for formal dinner offerings that include an appetizer, soup or salad, a main dish with sides and dessert. A grilled salmon dinner is scheduled for Thursday, September 22, 2016 from 6 to 8 pm in the Learning Resources (LR) Building-Room LR109 at the AWC Yuma Campus.
Additional dinners will be offered every two weeks, on Thursdays. Each dinner will feature a different menu.
Former Astronaut Mike Foreman to Visit Arizona Western College
Yuma, AZ (September 6, 2016)-Former astronaut Mike Foreman will be visiting Arizona Western College on Thursday, September 22nd to talk to AWC students and students from the area about working in space. His presentation will take place in the Schoening Conference Center in the College Community Center (3C) on the Yuma Campus from 9:00 am -11:30 am.
Arizona Western College has announced two name changes that are effective immediately. The Main Campus at 24th Street and Avenue 8E will now be called the Yuma Campus; to differentiate it from AWC’s other learning centers in San Luis, Somerton, Parker, Quartzsite and Wellton.
The Arizona Western College (AWC) nursing program has received continuing accreditation from the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) for 8 years and continued approval from the Arizona State Board of Nursing (AZBN). The AZBN will follow up in 2 years to review changes that AWC’s program has made.
Value of Yuma’s Higher Education to Local and Global Tranquility
The Center for Teaching Effectiveness (CTE) at Arizona Western College presents the Noon Discovery Series 2.0 (NDS) for the AWC Community at large. The next upcoming presentation in the series is “Value of Yuma’s Higher Education to Local and Global Tranquility” featuring Dr. Frank Kidd, Faculty, NAU-Yuma Branch Campus. The presentation takes place on Wednesday, August 31st from 12:15pm to 1:30pm in AC 111 and via ITN SLLC CR, PLC 15 and QLC 15.
If a fan hollers at an official, most of the time the officials ignore it. When Arizona Western College athletic director Jerry Smith says something, officials may want to take notice. After serving for 35 years as an official in football, basketball and baseball, he was inducted into the Oklahoma Officials Association Hall of Fame on July 23.
“It’s definitely a big honor to be inducted,” said Smith. “I enjoyed working as an official and built some lifelong friendships with my crewmembers. The camaraderie we had is something special. I have some great memories with those guys.”
Arizona Western College received notification from the U.S. Department of Education indicating that the Talent Search Program proposal has been fully funded.
This award will provide approximately $1.4M in discretionary federal funding from September 2017 through August 2022 for Arizona Western College (AWC) to offer academically needy first generation (neither parent has a bachelor’s degree) and/or low income youth student supports to help graduate from high school and continue on to college.
The TRIO KEYS Program at Arizona Western College would like to invite the AWC campus communities and the general public to their Fall 2016 Open House on Wednesday, August 31st from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm in the KEYS Building (formerly Cottage 1). At 10:00 am, there will be a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the new space.
