Student Life



Valencia Drops Fee for Former Students Returning to College

Orlando, FL – Students leave college for lots of reasons: Work. Family. Bills. But if you stopped attending Valencia College [...]


Valencia Student Wins Scholarship, Transfers to University of Montana

College students routinely dream of going away to school — usually to a college that looks like a postcard from [...]


Juneteenth Music Festival Marks 150 Years Since Emancipation Proclamation Signing

Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the emancipation of slaves in the United States, Florida’s Juneteenth Music Festival will kickoff Thursday, [...]


Valencia Offers One-Day Sessions to Help Fill out Financial Aid Forms

Although fall classes begin in a few months, it’s not too late to apply for financial aid. But to be [...]


Curious About His Heritage, Valencia Honors Student Embarks on Genealogical Research

Cooper Smith is an anomaly in his family – a redhead in a clan full of people with black or [...]


Valencia Student Tuition to Stay the Same for Third Straight Year

Today, Valencia College trustees agreed to hold tuition for associate-degree classes at its current level for next fall. At $99.06 [...]


Valencia Honors First Bachelor’s Degree Graduates at Commencement

Kissimmee, FL – On Saturday, May 4, about 1,200 Valencia students received their associate degrees as Valencia College celebrated its [...]


Laid-Off Worker Turns Misfortune Into Opportunity, Earns Degree

In the late 1990s, Nathan Maurer was working in the clean room at Lucent Technologies, making microchips—a job that ignited [...]


Graduate Earns Bachelor’s Degree to Improve Her Job Prospects

When Zenia Rivera graduated from a private Orlando college with an associate degree in nuclear medicine technology in 2008, she [...]


Colombia Native Ready to Earn One of Valencia’s First Bachelor’s Degrees

When Bladimir Uran was in his freshman year of college — at the University of Rhode Island — his parents [...]