The long-standing partnership between Cobre Valley Institute of Technology (CVIT) and Gila Community College (GCC)—Gila Pueblo Campus, has played a key role in our community’s educational opportunities for more than a decade. This collaboration has enabled CVIT to offer industry-driven Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs to high school students, …
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Cobre Valley Institute of Technology (CVIT) is at the forefront of shaping our community’s future by partnering with local industries and offering programs that provide employers with a steady stream of well-trained, job-ready candidates. As a Career Technical Education District (CTED), CVIT offers high school students from Globe, Hayden-Winkelman, Miami, …
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The Cobre Valley Institute of Technology is expanding its offerings in the healthcare fields this fall by adding mental and social health training, in an effort to help address growing worker shortages in the field. Citing a need for mental health professionals across the country, and specifically in Arizona, CVIT …
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The Cobre Valley Institute of Technology (CVIT) has introduced a new dimension to its medical curriculum that will add leadership skills training to some of its most successful programs, re-establishing its chapter of a global organization dedicated to helping students succeed in their chosen field. Participants in the Nursing and …
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It’s been a rocky road in the relationship between the Gila County Provisional Community College District (GCC) and Eastern Arizona College (EAC) in the months since the district announced its intention to split from EAC to seek independence. Just when it looked like the situation had completely deteriorated and GCC …
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The Cobre Valley Institute of Technology has seen a renaissance in its welding program, which has come back and expanded thanks to the help of Freeport McMoRan and a pair of local men who’ve stepped up post-COVID and found a passion for teaching. “We’re setting up a state-of-the-art welding shop …
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San Carlos High School (SCHS) students are planting seeds, petting bunnies, sniffing basil, and eating radishes, some of them for the first time ever. “I have always had a passion and excitement for educating the public about production agriculture,” says Kimberly Kerr DeSpain, AG Instructor and FFA Advisor at SCHS. …
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According to the US Department of Education, students who complete career and technical (CTE) courses while in high school obtain higher median annual earnings than students that do not. “AG students are going to be much higher in continuing with their education than other fields,” says Jimmy Crosby, “because the …
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Major Salvatore Fiorella was the Career & Technical Education instructor and head of the JROTC program at Globe High School (GHS) when he was asked to teach a CVIT satellite course on drones. Drones are unmanned aircraft, regulated by the FAA, similar to manned aircraft. Although Major had a pilot’s …
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Mike O’Neal was recently named superintendent at the Cobre Valley Institute of Technology, but he’s been training for that position essentially all of his professional life, and working in that role since last year. O’Neal began with CVIT in 2017 as Executive Program Director and Principal, but when then-superintendent Pete …
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