Doris Helmich has been named the interim president of Central Arizona College.

Preregistration for English Language Acquisition for Adults (ELAA or ESL) classes at Central Arizona College.

Central Arizona College Foundation’s Promise for the Future Scholarship program got a $1 million boost from the Gila River Indian Community.

Central Arizona College boosters are going to the ballot in November with a nearly $100 million bond package that would help build new campuses in the quickly growing town of Maricopa and the heart of the Santan area.

March 21, 2005

Administrators at Central Arizona College in Pinal County are asking voters to finance their vision of thriving campuses in Apache Junction, the Johnson Ranch area, Maricopa and other fast-growing communities that they say lack adequate facilities for higher education.

Four-year institutions

You’re invited to learn more about credit at the lunchtime talks with Central Arizona College on June 12 from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. at the San Tan Center.

Central Arizona Project said it was recognized for its “H2O4U Water Education Scholarship Program” at the annual ASPRAtions Awards.

Washington -- Rio Salado Community College and Arizona State University were cited this month as schools that are taking tentative steps toward “competency-based education,” which recognizes student mastery of subjects rather than the number of hours spent in a classroom.

More than half of college graduates eventually have to leave Arizona because they can’t advance their careers here, a university economist said Tuesday.

Ron Renagel was perusing a local newspaper when he saw an ad promoting Central Arizona College that featured a large picture of Pinal County Sheriff Christopher Vasquez, a graduate of the school. Renagel, a 60-year-old Gold Canyon resident and supporter of Florence Police Chief Bob Ingulli, Vasquez’s challenger in the race for sheriff, was outraged.

Central Arizona College unveiled earlier this month plans for the first phase of its proposed San Tan Valley campus, set to break ground at the end of 2012.

Voters in Pinal County will be making a decision of historic proportions today as they cast ballots on a proposed $435.2 million bond issue for a phased expansion of Central Arizona College facilities throughout the county.

The projected population boom in Pinal County within the next 10 to 25 years has inspired county college officials to consider an expansion of Central Arizona College.

July 11, 2004

Senior year of high school can be an exciting time.

Senior year of high school can be an exciting time.

Nothing dramatizes the magnitude of the lightning growth of the far south East Valley like the Central Arizona College $435 million bond election May 17. Pinal County truly is emerging from rural to urban status, and few things will be as important to the future of this once-sleepy county.

Scottsdale Community College women’s basketball coach Bike Medder is downplaying Saturday’s meeting with perennial power Central Arizona College in Arizona Community College Athletic Conference play.

“Hey kids! Let’s go to the Arizona Historical Society!” Sounds a little dull, doesn’t it? Like “Let’s read through our old tax returns!” For most folks, the word “history” has a dry and bookish connotation. Housed in Tempe, within a stoic brick exterior, the Historical Society’s Papago Park Museum does nothing to dispel that notion … until you’re inside.

HAYDEN - The copper industry, which has attracted wider attention in recent days because of a labor dispute here, has been at the core of Arizona’s financial fabric since at least the 1880s though its impact on the state’s economy has varied widely.

The Arizona Major League Alumni Association will honor the top baseball and softball players in the state, ranging from high school to the majors, during its Second Annual Awards Banquet noon Saturday at the Embassy Suites, 4400 S. Rural Road, Tempe.