Academic Issues



Second Lady Jill Biden Visits Valencia

Dr. Jill Biden, the Second Lady of the United States, visited Valencia College’s West Campus on Thursday for a round-table [...]


Orlando Sentinel Publishes Ron Brandolini Obituary

The Orlando Sentinel memorialized former Valencia College honors director Ron Brandolini in an obituary on Monday, June 25. In the [...]


Valencia Students Depart for A Somber Tour of Nazi Death Camps

Sometimes,  it’s hard to understand the history of a place until you’ve been there. For 15 Valencia students, their summer [...]


Florida Trend Magazine Highlights Valencia’s Weekend Degree Program

Florida Trend, a business magazine that serves the state of Florida, highlighted Valencia’s “weekend degree” program in its June issue, [...]


Eyewitness to History: International Expert to Teach Course That Explores Causes of Genocide

What does 1940s Germany have in common with Iraq of the 1990s, when Saddam Hussein attacked the Kurdish people with [...]


Shugart: Focus on Completion is Good, But Learning Should Be a College’s First Priority

Valencia College President Sandy Shugart was quoted in an article in Inside Higher Education about the current focus on students [...]


Valencia to Freeze Student Tuition for the Fall

During a visit to Tallahassee last February, Valencia President Sanford Shugart told lawmakers it would be a mistake to raise [...]


Valencia Professor Quoted in Inside Higher Ed on Textbook Costs

Across the country, colleges and universities are grappling with a thorny issue: How to reduce the cost of college textbooks, [...]


Valencia Boosts Local Economy by $1 Billion a Year, Study Finds

At a time when Florida’s unemployment rate is 9.4% and public funding for higher education is being cut, a new [...]


Valencia Launches New Honors College; Members of Inaugural Class Eligible for Full Scholarships

Valencia College will launch the new James M. and Dayle L. Seneff Honors College in the fall of 2012, providing [...]