Yakima Valley Community College, through a national science grant, is transitioning its vineyard and winery educational program to an online and hybrid format to better serve its student community. Four classes are now available online, and ten are offered in a hybrid format. Catherine Jones was hired in September 2010 as YVCC’s vineyard and winery technology grant director to manage the college’s advanced technology educational grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant, worth about $570,000, has entered its third and final year. Her job is to work with YVCC’s agriculture faculty in transitioning the traditional, face-to-face courses to online […]