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Valencia Wins $5.25 Million Hispanic Education Grant to Strengthen and Expand Educational Opportunities for Students

Valencia College was awarded a $5.25 million grant by the U.S. Department of Education this week. The funding comes from [...]


Valencia College to Hold Tribute for Florida Film Great Ralph Clemente

ORLANDO – Valencia College will celebrate the life of the late Ralph Clemente on Sunday, Sept. 20 at 1 p.m. [...]


Valencia College’s Engineering Society Wins Statewide Awards… Again

Valencia College’s student chapter of the Florida Engineering Society received two prestigious awards at this year’s FES/FICE 99th Annual Summer [...]


Valencia Ranks 4th in Nation for Number of Associate Degrees

Orlando, FL – Valencia College ranks fourth in the nation for the number of associate degrees awarded to students, according [...]


Valencia College to Host Osceola County’s 9/11 Memorial Service

Orlando, FL – To honor the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Valencia College’s Osceola Campus will hold [...]


Valencia to Hold Sept. 11 Run for the Heroes 5K at Osceola Campus

Orlando, FL – Valencia College’s Alumni Association, in partnership with the Rotary Club of Lake Nona, will hold a 5K [...]


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 [...]