Centers & Partners

Kino Bay Center | Kino Bay, Mexico

The Kino Bay Center is a Prescott College field station on the shores of the Gulf of California in Sonora, Mexico. Each year the Kino Bay Center hosts over 1,200 researchers, students, resident fellows, and community visitors from dozens of institutions and community groups from Mexico, the United States and other parts of the world.

The Kino Bay Center facilitates collaborative efforts promoting sustainable use and conservation of resources in the biologically rich Midriff Island Region of the Gulf of California, protecting priority species and habitats through the integrated application of science, education, information exchange, and community participation.

Frantz Fanon Center | Prescott, AZ

The Frantz Fanon Community Strategy Center is a community organizing and mobilization project devoted to popular education, advocacy, and organizing. The FFCSC is a space for students of color at Prescott College as well as Northern Arizona community members to organize around issues vital to their respective communities.

Tucson Center | Tucson, AZ

Prescott College Tucson Center (PCTC) serves as a hub for both academic and community-based collaborative projects through student projects, the Center for Nature and Place, and Arizona Serve internships. Partners include various K-12 schools in Southern Arizona, as well as other environmental and social justice organizations. The center houses several key functions facilitated by staff and faculty roles. Additionally, we continue to have an admissions recruiter in the area. Arizona Serve is located in the historic Y in downtown Tucson. The Center for Nature and Place is housed in a mobile unit provided by the Storer Grant.

Dopoi Center | Kenya, Africa

Prescott College’s Field Station in Kenya (the Dopoi Center) is located on 10 acres in the southern Rift Valley, bordering the worldfamous Maasai Mara Game Reserve. Students study at the Maasai Education, Research and Conservation Institute (MERC) in the rural homeland of the Maasai community. The Center provides an opportunity for Prescott College students to produce meaningful research that is accountable to local communities and supports their participation in conservation, sustainable development, and indigenous struggles for justice.

Center for Nature & Place | Tucson, AZ

The Center for Nature & Place was established to support and expand training for early childhood educators, pre-service teachers, administrators, and program directors in nature and place-based pedagogy. With a focus on designing innovative nature and placefocused college course curricula for the Early Childhood and Early Childhood Special Education undergraduate and graduate programs, the Center provides training and experiential learning opportunities across Arizona and beyond.

Green Mountain Center for Sustainability | Prescott, AZ

The Green Mountain Center for Sustainability at Prescott College serves students, alumni, staff, local citizens, and an online audience by promoting learning through the development of practical solutions for increasing community sustainability. By building learning communities through events and programs, facilitating connections among stakeholders, and sharing resources, the center cultivates the skills and knowledge needed to create a more just and sustainable society.

Arizona Serve | Tucson, AZ

Poverty affects us all; it threatens public health, limits children’s ability to learn in school, and prevents communities from achieving their full potential. Arizona Serve, is a program, located in Tucson Center of Prescott College, that places nearly 200 AmeriCorps members with local organizations to increase their capacity to address poverty. Our AmeriCorps members develop the skills and experience to become the next generation of leaders working for a more just society.

ECOSA | Prescott, AZ

Ecosa is a Prescott College program that studies the importance of design in shaping both the natural and human environments. No matter what career you choose you will benefit from design literacy. Every product we use, every space we inhabit, every city we live in has been designed with little consideration of nature or human wellbeing. Ill-considered design has led to the global climate crisis, among other serious challenges we face. Ecosa students will have the tools to be future leaders and help plan for a resilient future.