Palo Verde College – Bythe
VISION
Palo Verde College will be known for excellence—educationally, socially, economically and culturally.
MISSION
Palo Verde College provides an exemplary learning environment that promotes student success, lifelong learning and community development.
Welcome to Palo Verde College. We are one of California’s smaller community colleges–a fact we share with pride. Students at Palo Verde College have all the advantages of a comprehensive community college and of a small college that is able to provide its students with personalized services.
Our faculty members are all well qualified in their fields. Equally important, they are here because they enjoy teaching and the rewards that good teaching provides. Likewise, our support staff are enthusiastic and here to serve our students.
Palo Verde College is a dynamic institution. We serve our District in numerous ways. Our Small Business Economic Development Center has offices in Blythe and Needles. It provides support for business development in the District. Our growing center in Needles complements our home campus in Blythe by providing a variety of credit and non-credit programs for the citizens of Needles. In Blythe we recently completed the second phase of an entirely new campus situated on the mesa at the edge of the City of Blythe and overlooking the Palo Verde Valley.
ork is in progress on Phase III of the new campus. Our Distance Education program, which makes us available to students who, for whatever reason, cannot attend classes in Blythe or Needles, has grown exponentially in the past several years and will continue to expand in the future. Our goal is to take the College to students who cannot bring themselves to College.
All of us at Palo Verde College invite you to join us either through this website or physically in Blythe or Needles. We are proud of who we are, we are proud of where we are along the Colorado River, and we are proud of the services we provide our students and the communities Palo Verde College Serves.
James W. Hottois
President