Yavapai College

It's your time to Ed Up on the Ed Up Experience podcast, where we make education your business.

We're doing that here continuously at ACCAC, the Arizona Community College Administrators Conference 2026 on the campus of Yavap- Yavapai College in Prescott, Arizona.

The weather is amazing.

Uh, the, uh, sun is out, and the food smells oh so good.

So we tracked down [laughs] somebody that we thought would be a great guest, given that it is lunchtime here on the campus of Yavapai College, and we said, "We gotta talk to her about what's going on." Ladies and gentlemen, let's get her on.

[clapping]

She is Chef Amy Novak.

She's the executive director of culinary experience here at Yavapai College.

Ladies and gentlemen.

[upbeat music] We've got John Morgan, executive director of Workforce, Skilled Trades, and Manufacturing, and Vince Redgrave, executive director of Industry and Innovation, both at Yavapai College.

Whoa.

Boys, how's it going?

I appreciate that.

Vince, how about yourself? Tell us what you do and how you do it.

So I've been with post-secondary education at Yavapai College for the last three years.

Prior to that, I have four decades in industry, logistics, manufacturing, a bunch of other things like that.

It's your time to EdUp on the EdUp Experience Podcast where we make education your business.

At the very, very tail end of a long but incredible day here at ACCAC 2026 on the campus of Yavapai College here in beautiful Prescott, Arizona, and that's the Arizona Community College Administrators Conference.

Uh, and we have been talking to amazing colleagues from across the Arizona Community Colleges to talk about the work that they're doing, why they're here at this conference, why this conference is important, not just to community colleges here in Arizona, but nationally as they share best practices and information about what's going on in higher ed, uh, around best pr- uh, uh, calendars and AI and all the stuff that we like to talk about here at EdUp.

Uh, and b- and we've got...

Yeah.

You get to show off your campus and show off your culture and community, and, um, that's always a fun thing to see, kind of the flavor of each individual college around the state.

Well, you know, I hear Yavapai College has definitely been showing off their, uh, innovations.

I don't know where this AA- ACCAC conference will be next year, but I'm sure it'll be an incredible institution in the Ameri- uh, Arizona Community College system.

[audience applauding] He's Andrew Clegg.

He's the Academic Dean of Workforce Development and Skilled Trades at Central Arizona College.

Welcome to the mic, my friend.

How are you?

An amazing episode with somebody doing the hard work of workforce and skilled trades.

Here he is, Andrew Clegg.

He's Academic Dean of Workforce Development and Skilled Trades at Central Arizona College, and you've just EdUp-

Think I could get it a little bit faster after all these podcast episodes today.

That's the Arizona Community College Administrators Conference here on the campus of Yavapai College in beautiful Prescott, Arizona.

Uh, my co-founder, uh, my co-founder, co-founder of the EdUp Experience Podcast, Elvin Freytes, is here.

Made the horrible decision, he's taking a red-eye flight to go home tonight after all these podcast episodes.

I gotta get the acronyms right.

The Arizona Community College Administrators Conference here on the campus of Yavapai College, 2026 in Prescott, Arizona, talking to amazing leaders across the state of Arizona and the great work they're doing to serve students.

I've got Elvin Freytes, co-founder of the Ed Up Experience, uh, right next to me.

He never gets on the mic anymore these days, which, uh, which I, I appreciate because I hate when he gets on the microphone.