Student Life



Sing-A-Long Concert to Raise Money for Nursing, Paramedic Scholarships

For a good time (and a good cause), head to Osceola Campus Friday night for an old-fashioned, rock and roll [...]


Students’ Architectural Creations Take Over Atrium of Building 11

If you’ve walked through the hallways of Building 11 on West Campus this summer, you may have noticed something a [...]


Wanted: Singers and Musicians for Valencia’s Musical Ensembles

If you can play an instrument or sing, Valencia is looking for you. Valencia students don’t have to major in [...]


Engineering Students Donate Their Time and Learn Valuable Lessons

Engineering students love to tinker. So when Valencia Engineering Professor Deb Hall suggested that her students could earn extra credit [...]


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 [...]


Local High School Valedictorians Did It Their Way — at Valencia College

Several of the top high school graduates in Central Florida also studied at Valencia — as dual-enrollment students. In an [...]


Valencia Grad Earns 4.0 at Rollins, Becomes the College’s Valedictorian

Former Valencia student Traci Campana battled all the odds, including learning disabilities and a form of autism, to go to [...]


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 [...]