Update: Erika Weakens, So It’s Back to School Next Week

Noon Sunday Update: With Erika downgraded from a tropical storm, Valencia College will be open next week and fall classes [...]


Cornell or Bust: Valencia Grad Heads to Grad School to Study Public Health

Gloria Coicou sounds like your typical American success story. Last spring, she graduated magna cum laude from UCF and this [...]


Shugart Named One of the Nation’s Most Innovative College Presidents

Washington Monthly magazine has named Valencia College’s president, Dr. Sandy Shugart, one of the nation’s most innovative college presidents. Others [...]


Valencia College Featured on PBS NewsHour for Efforts to Help Low-Income Students Finish College

Valencia College is one of five cutting-edge colleges and universities that was featured in an August special  on “PBS NewsHour,” [...]


Summer Institute Plants the Seeds for Students Interested in STEM Majors

“Who wants to be a planet?” When Valencia College physics professor Richard Jerousek posed that question to a handful of [...]


Valencia Unveils New Degree in Biotech Lab Sciences at Lake Nona

ORLANDO – As Orlando’s biotechnology community evolves, there will be growing demand for workers in this emerging science field. To [...]


Valencia to Display Professor’s Digital Artwork in East Campus Gallery

ORLANDO – Valencia College will host an exhibition of digital artwork by digital media professor Rob McCaffrey Aug. 14 through [...]


Procrastinators: There’s Still Time to Enroll for Fall Classes at Valencia

With classes beginning on Aug. 31, it’s not too late to apply to Valencia College for the upcoming fall semester. [...]


Valencia Dual-Enrollment Graduate Has Her Sights Set on Medical School

Cindy Rajkumar is the first to tell you that her family isn’t your typical suburban family. For one thing, their [...]


Valencia’s West Campus to Hold Emergency Preparedness Exercise

Orlando – More than a hundred Central Florida first responders and emergency personnel will practice a full-scale emergency preparedness exercise [...]