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Arizona Western College offers educational, career, and life-long learning opportunities through innovative partnerships which enhance the lives of people in Yuma and La Paz counties. The staff's devotion to partnering with its community has enabled Arizona Western to become a nationally recognized, premier learning community college offering open access to education in southwest Arizona. The Arizona Western College/Northern Arizona University partnership is regarded as the technological learning hub for the southwest region of the United States. Through its technically advanced worldwide alternative distance learning partnership, AWC students participate in career, technical, or transfer classes offered at accessible learning centers.
Economic development programs offered in partnership between agencies, government, private enterprise and Arizona Western College prepare a technically superior, multi-lingual workforce to attract new high tech industries to Yuma and La Paz Counties.

The Yuma Education Consortium has evolved into an educational network that serves all age levels of Yuma/La Paz learners--toddlers to senior citizens--by utilizing new, effective, and efficient ways to collaborate and leverage resources that maintain and enhance an innovative life-long learning community.

Lifelong Learning Opportunities at Arizona Western College
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Arizona Western College, through its focus on an integrated enrollment management plan, has opened doors to diverse students on a local, national, and global level with enrollment soaring by 200% F.T.S.E. Aggressive statewide marketing, coupled with computerized registration, financial aid, retention and articulation programs, has resulted in increased proportions of full-time students in the AWC/NAU partnership. The Arizona Western College/Northern Arizona University in Yuma International Student Partnership represents a student population drawn from over twenty nations world wide making the college a "multi-cultural" learning center.

Performance-based learning connections for men and women involved in athletics, government, music, drama, and leadership demonstrates that Arizona Western College exemplifies excellence in both team building participation and learning. Talent and education are combined to produce service oriented citizens that enhance the quality of life in southwest Arizona. Equal access for men and women in performance-based activities has opened more and more areas for national recognition and achievement for deserving Arizona Western students.

Arizona Western, because of the college's emphasis on community service and performance-based activities, is generating foundation support and access to external financial sources to provide improved facilities, scholarships and learning improvements. Arizona Western College and Northern Arizona University share common campus and delivery sites in a cost-effective manner to provide "seamless" associate-through-graduate degree programs. The Arizona Western College and Northern Arizona University partnership is nationally recognized as a model community college/university partnership. Through creative educational brokering, the AWC NAU/Yuma partnership provides accessible training and learning for Yuma and La Paz residents so that tax dollars and resources continue to enhance the well being of southwest Arizona.

Culture, Recreation, and Learning
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City, county and educational financial partnerships have produced educational learning "parks" throughout Yuma and La Paz Counties featuring life-long learning opportunities for culture, recreation and wellness. The Greater Yuma Cultural Complex, located adjacent to the AWC/NAU campus, attracts thousands of spectators to outstanding culturally diverse theater, dance, music, and art events bringing an increased vitality to southwest Arizona. Lifetime leisure activities are developed and maintained through shared city, county, and educational recreational complexes maximizing use of facilities and resources. Livability indexes for residents in Yuma and La Paz counties continue to improve, bringing long-term prosperity and growth. The Learning Resources Center, jointly operated and maintained by the city, county, colleges and K-12 schools at the Yuma learning park, provides more efficient state of the art, immediate access for people with diverse needs for information.

Resources for a Lifelong Learning Partnership
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Arizona Western College is a leader in financial analysis and efficiency resulting in increased leveraging of funds to serve ever-increasing learning services. The management information system and budget development process, coupled with the college strategic plan, has enabled our staff to maximize resources so that each staff member shares in the college success on a personal, professional, and financial basis. Arizona Western College is adept at co-evolving with other service providers to deliver outstanding learning opportunities. The Arizona Western College governing board, staff and students have fashioned an organizational style that is committed to frame-breaking change that co-exists comfortably with operational and linear enhancements so the college remains change oriented yet functional.

Staff members are part of a highly networked team that focus on learning rather than on organizational borders or boundaries commonly encountered in colleges without AWC's vision and vitality. Arizona Western College values are rooted in the delivery of high quality comprehensive learning opportunities for the people of Yuma and La Paz Counties. Arizona Western College capitalizes on its mission-driven human resource development program which is based on a search for employees which fit the college decision analysis model based on excellence, equity, efficiency, effort, and effectiveness. AWC selects and retains high quality employees based upon a criteria related to their ability to adapt, motivate, create and shape a learning centered organizational culture. Because of innovative faculty and staff exchange programs, learning effectiveness approaches and in-service seminars, employees really do make a difference in maintaining Arizona Western College as a leading edge college focused on enhanced learning opportunity for its people.

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