Community Relations



$2.3M State Grant Will Help Valencia Expand Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Training

Valencia College will receive a $2,320,000, five-year grant aimed at increasing economic mobility for low-income citizens while strengthening the talent pipeline [...]


Valencia’s Wins National Award for Outstanding STEM Education

ORLANDO – Valencia College’s Network Engineering Technology program has been named a winner of the inaugural Siemens-Aspen Community College STEM [...]


Valencia Offers Tax Preparation Help

Orlando, FL –Valencia College accounting students and professors will be offering free tax help to the public on Saturdays during [...]


Valencia Launches Construction Training Program at Site of Future Downtown Campus

With more than $9 billion worth of construction projects planned for the Central Florida area over the next few years, [...]


Valencia College Celebrates New Campus in Poinciana at Official Dedication Ceremony

Kissimmee, FL – Valencia College officials and students, along with an array of Osceola County officials and community members, celebrated [...]


Valencia to Hold Fundraising Event for Puerto Rican, USVI Scholarships

Kissimmee – To raise scholarship funds for students from Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and other Caribbean islands impacted by [...]


Valencia College Hires Executive Dean for New Downtown Campus

Orlando, FL – Eugene Jones II, a veteran college administrator with broad experience in workforce learning and outreach to disadvantaged [...]


Becoming Movers & Shakers: First Class Graduates from Heavy Equipment Construction Course

Kissimmee, FL — Michael Formenta spent the last four years working as a sign spinner — and made the most [...]


Valencia Students and Employees Will Soon Ride Bus for Free, Thanks to New Agreement with LYNX

Valencia College and LYNX today signed an agreement that will allow the college’s students and employees to ride the LYNX [...]


Ask an Alumn: Orange County Commissioner Emily Bonilla

Last December, Orange County swore in two newly-elected commissioners to its governing board, and as it turns out, both are [...]